THE LATE AUTHOR  Gary Poliakoff , was one of the world's foremost authorities on community association law, also author of a nationally published treatise,  The Law of Condominium Operations . Ryan Poliakoff is inaugural president of The Ocean Palms, a $100 million condominium property in South Florida. Gary Poliakoff, who founded Becker & Poliakoff with partner Alan Becker in 1973, died from lung cancer after a two-year battle in August 2014. Ryan Poliakoff , a lawyer who left the practice of law to become a writer, is the inaugural president of The Ocean Palms, a $100,000,000 condominium property in South Florida. He earned both his B.S. In Communications and a Juris Doctor degree from Cornell University. [ View the story "A book on new neighborhoods" on Storify ]