Tenenbaum & Saas P.C.

Tenenbaum & Saas, P.C.
4504 Walsh Street
Chevy Chase, MD 20815
(301) 961-5300
Fax: (301) 961-5305

Tenenbaum & Saas, P.C. is an A-V rated law firm located in Bethesda, Maryland. The Firm has lawyers who are licensed to practice in Maryland, Virginia, the District of Columbia, Florida, North Carolina, Rhode Island and New York. Our practice is extensive throughout the entire Mid-Atlantic region.

The Firm provides legal services for a diverse group of real estate developers, owners, management companies, banks, life insurance companies, real estate investment trusts, landlords, tenants, institutional owners, investors and entrepreneurs.

Many of our attorneys have held in-house positions, both legal and business in nature, and as a result of having represented clients in business transactions from virtually every conceivable vantage point, we are able to focus quickly on what is most important to each client and better appreciate the interests of our clients and all parties to a transaction. This breadth of experience helps us to prevent "over-lawyering" by all parties involved and to foster consensus between adverse parties in order to efficiently achieve our client's business objectives in complex situations.

Our firm believes that our lawyers are a means to a business end, not the end in and of itself.

The founding members are Mark S. Tenenbaum and J. Richard Saas, who together left a mid-sized law firm in Washington, D.C. to form Tenenbaum & Saas in 1996.

Previously, Mr. Tenenbaum served in the capacity of regional general counsel to Trammell Crow Company in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions and before that as general counsel to Trammell Crow Company's Washington retail division. Prior to returning to private practice, Mr. Saas was general counsel to South Charles Realty Corporation and an assistant general counsel at NationsBank Corporation.

They declined a number of opportunities to merge their real estate practices into larger regional or national law firms, for several reasons. First, to provide legal services in a more personalized and cost-efficient manner than larger law firms can provide; second, to have the flexibility to make decisions best suited to the specific needs of the firm's clients; and third, to create and nurture a working atmosphere that would attract excellent lawyers at all levels of experience. The growth of the firm since its formation reflects our success in achieving these objectives.

Since its founding, the firm has expanded with the addition of several partners and associates in an effort to provide additional expertise and depth to the Firm's real estate, litigation and general transactional practice.

The firm’s litigation and bankruptcy practice is headed by Bradshaw Rost, who had been the partner in charge of a Washington, D.C. firm's litigation and bankruptcy department. In today's business climate, the firm's expertise in litigation and bankruptcy matters is an important component of our ability to effectively represent and protect our clients' interests.

Although the firm competes with larger "full service" law firms that engage in additional practice areas that Tenenbaum & Saas does not, we view our concentration on real estate and business transactions, as supported by our litigation and bankruptcy expertise, to be a significant advantage. Our clients have found that "one stop shopping" with large firms can lead to dissatisfaction as a result of inconsistency in the quality of service provided by different offices, practice groups and individual attorneys within a single firm, and the inefficiencies that large firm style of practice often involves.

In our view, the most important factor in how effectively a law firm serves its clients is invariably the human element -- the diligence, experience and capability of the firm's lawyers, and their ability to work effectively and efficiently with clients, other lawyers and adversaries.

Through many years of handling complicated transactions and disputes, both as lawyers and from the inside as clients, we have developed a unique appreciation for the business goals and concerns of those we represent. Our legal advice is always influenced by the business considerations affecting the client. We think it is this added dimension, together with our uncompromising commitment to excellence on the legal service we provide, that has enabled us to compete successfully with the nation's largest and best known law firms in order to represent some of the most highly respected companies in North America.