PRIOR EXPERIENCE over 30 years of experience

PROBATE: Filing of probate for Letters Testamentary and/or Letters of Administration. Litigating for beneficiaries when their rights are in question or being violated. REAL ESTATE: Worked as in-house real estate counsel in New York City, NY for nationwide companies such as Corporate Property Investors and Shearson Lehman Brothers and Hartz Mountain, Secaucus, NJ and then doing all aspects of real estate working in private practice. This real estate experience includes, without limitation, buying, selling (including short sales), leasing (ground, net, gross and residential), condominium (formation, transactions and collections), coops, development (including construction and architectural contracts), mortgages (including preparation and negotiation and foreclosures), tax liens, tax foreclosure, tax appeals, variances, zoning, land use and condemnation.

BUSINESS: Formed many corporations for small business clients and worked out the details of often complex shareholder agreements; bought and sold businesses for clients; prepared non-compete and confidentiality agreements on an as-needed basis; and otherwise served the needs of small business clients litigating a wide spectrum of business issues.

BUSINESS FRAUD: Skilled in examining all aspects and details of a case to uncover potential fraud so as to permit causes of action not otherwise apparently available, e.g., piercing the corporate veil so as to be able to sue individual officers and owners of a company, fraudulent conveyance of assets.

INTERNET LAW: Beginning in 2000, began working with small business dot.com companies negotiating and litigating web development, web hosting, joint development and associated agreements. Successful in defending against libel and in claims of libel.

LITIGATION: Litigated in the Superior Court of NJ (Bergen, Hudson, and Passaic counties) and in the Supreme Court of New York (New York, Queens, Bronx, Brooklyn, Nassau, Westchester and Rockland Counties), the Appellate Term in NYC, and the Appellate Division, First and Second Departments in New York State. These law suits involved disputes, breaches and fraud concerning business contracts, property transfers, partnership and shareholder agreements/responsibilities, brokerage commissions, landlord/tenant matters, commercial transaction and the Uniform Commercial Code.