• Representation of major financial institutions in federal and state courts in successfully foreclosing on multimillion dollar mortgages involving commercial properties including apartment buildings and shopping centers; obtaining rent receiver orders, and successfully defending against lender liability claims and negotiating settlements and workouts.
  
  
• Representation of lenders and owners in connection with real estate disputes including actions to quiet title.
  
  
• Representation of lender in action involving the enforcement of multimillion dollar guaranty and defeated guarantors' lender liability claims and successfully argued guarantors were precluded from raising defenses which they failed to raise in prior out-of-state commercial foreclosure actions.

J.D., Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 1988

B.A., Long Island University, 1984
Graduated Magna Cum Laude

New York, 1989

Connecticut, 1989

1992 U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
1992 U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
1998 U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York
1998 U.S. District Court, Western District of New York
1999 U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
2009 U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit

Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Real Property Law Committee)
Westchester County Bar Association
Westchester Women's Bar Association

Representation of parent of victims of September 11^th in connection with disputes relating to the September 11^th Victim Compensation Fund

Representation of family in state court to obtain, on emergency basis, an order declaring ownership interest to cemetery grave purchased by a Jewish burial society founded at the turn of the century and later dissolved