Tara Mulrooney, partner at Zetlin & De Chiara Tara Mulrooney, partner at Zetlin & De Chiara

NEW YORK CITY—As a recently appointed woman partner practicing real estate and construction law at Zetlin & De Chiara, Tara Mulrooney emphasizes that professional women should find mentors. She also advises women to specialize and build an expertise early on in an area for which they have a passion.

In 2001, Mulrooney started at Thacher, Proffitt & Wood as an associate where she worked for a little over two years. She continued as an associate for another couple of years at Westermann, Sheehy, Keenan, Samaan & Aydelott.

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Betsy Kim

Betsy Kim was the bureau chief, East Coast, and New York City reporter for Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com. As a lawyer and journalist, Betsy has worked as the director of editorial and content for LexisNexis Lawyers.com, a TV/multi-media journalist for NBC and CBS affiliated TV stations in the Midwest, and an associate producer at Court TV.