Founder & Managing Partner
Steven Roseman, Esq.
Steven A. Roseman is the founder and managing partner of Roseman Law, APC, a full-service real estate and business law firm specializing in Common Interest Developments with offices throughout California.
Mr. Roseman has more than 30 years of experience in representing common interest developments, including homeowners’ associations and co-operatives in a variety of legal matters. He serves as general counsel, dealing with both transactional and litigation matters. Mr. Roseman has significant trial experience, trying more than forty-three jury trials, bench trials and arbitration proceedings on behalf of his clients and attended countless mediations.
Mr. Roseman has unique real estate experience. In addition to representing common interest developments and property owners in all facets of real estate matters, he also has substantial knowledge in dealing with local governments, including City, County, Coastal Commission, and State agencies on behalf of his clients. He has also served as a commissioner on the Planning Commission and chaired the Historic Preservation Commission for the City of Calabasas. Mr. Roseman has lectured extensively in this and other areas of the law both locally and at a national level. He is actively involved in legislative action at a State Level, addressing issues that directly impact common interest developments and real estate.
Mr. Roseman also handles diverse real estate matters, ranging from easement issues and eminent domain disputes, and has drafted and negotiated all forms of transactional documents, including construction agreements, loan documents, finance legal opinions, and governing document restatements. In addition, Mr. Roseman has structured numerous business and real estate deals and acquisitions/sales, providing legal guidance in entity formation, drafting and negotiating buy-sell/shareholders agreements, operating agreements, and other corporate and transactional-related documents.
Mr. Roseman is actively involved in numerous leadership organizations. He is a member of the California and Nevada State Bar Associations and is an active member of the two most prominent trade groups in the common interest development arena—California Association of Community Managers (CACM) and the Community Associations Institute (CAI). Mr. Roseman serves on the faculty of CACM and lectures extensively all over California teaching CACM‘s C-CAM manager certification, which includes the large-scale management certification, high-rise management certification, legal, ethics, and accounting sections of the certification programs. Mr. Roseman has served on the Board and was a Past President for CAI Channel Islands Chapter. In addition, he has served as the chair of the Mediation Steering Committee for CAI Greater Los Angeles. He also serves as the co-chair for the membership committee for CAI Coachella Valley chapter. His involvement in the Legislative Action Committee (CLAC) earned him Emeritus status for CLAC.
Mr. Roseman has received numerous awards during his career. A few of those awards include “Speaker of the Year” Awards from various organizations both. In 2016, Mr. Roseman was the recipient of the “William S. Dunlevy” Award for his article published in the CAI Channels of Communication, and the 2013 “Speaker of the Year” Award by the CAI-Channel Islands Chapter. Mr. Roseman has been nominated consecutively since 2014 to present as “Speaker of the Year” by the CAI-Orange County Chapter and in 2016 was selected as “Speaker of the Year” by CAI National submitted by the Greater Los Angeles Chapter. In 2021, he also received an “Excellence in Community Associations Leadership” Award from CAI for his significant contribution to the industry. In 2024, Mr. Roseman was the recipient of the CACM “Educational Excellence” Vision Award for his exceptional commitment to providing outstanding educational opportunities to the members and managers of CACM. In 2023, he spoke at a national level at the Clio-Con conference in Nashville, Tennessee, to over 5000 attendees, speaking on “growth management” and transitioning businesses, both technologically and culturally to the new world of virtual and hybrid working environments.
Mr. Roseman has also been retained on a number of occasions as an expert witness on behalf of Board of Directors and Owners concerning matters pertaining to Common Interest Developments and has testified in depositions and as an expert witness in trial.
Mr. Roseman has been selected each year since 2015 as a California “Super Lawyer”. Super Lawyer is a rating for outstanding lawyers, selected by their peers for professional achievement, and less than 5% of attorneys achieve this recognition.
Mr. Roseman served on the Board of Directors of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), an organization striving to find a cure for children and adults suffering from Type 1 diabetes. In addition to other sports activities, Mr. Roseman is an avid runner, tennis player, and “Tough Mudder” competitor and participated in the annual “Mudd Run” runs at Camp Pendleton together with the Marines and other members of Roseman Law, APC, benefiting the Armed Forces Services and Wounded Warrior Project. He has completed a number of half-marathon races.
Admissions:
State Bar of California, 1992
State Bar of Nevada, 2001
U.S District Court, Central District
Previously Licensed to practice law in South Africa
Education:
Witwatersrand University