PRACTICE AREAS

By offering a full range of legal services, we can efficiently handle not only our clients’ routine legal needs, but also their more complex transactional and litigation matters. When needed, our attorneys will “team up” to handle a client’s legal issues, combining the skills and experience from their specific practice area to reach a satisfying conclusion.

Often, clients are so impressed by the results and high level of service that they hire us for additional legal issues and recommend us to friends, family members, and colleagues. We receive most of our business through referrals and have maintained some clients for multiple generations.

Our primary practice areas include:

Real Estate Transactional Law & Litigation
Trusts & Estates Law & Litigation
Elder Law
Guardianships
Business & Corporate Law & Litigation
Banking
Expert Witness

We have carved out a niche in real estate and estate litigation, combining the meticulous attention to detail required for contracts and agreements with the negotiating savvy of our seasoned court litigators.

In addition, our partners have been appointed by the courts in a variety of positions including referees, receivers, attorneys for incapacitated persons, court evaluators in guardianship cases, and guardians ad litem in Surrogate’s Court matters.

Real Estate Transactional Law & Litigation

Our attorneys have years of both scholarly and transactional experience in all aspects of residential and commercial real estate, and have a stellar reputation for providing knowledgeable advice on financing, contract negotiations, lease reviews, title objection resolution, and the coordination of closing requirements.

Our firm handles litigation for both residential and commercial property mortgage foreclosures, as well as partition actions, ancient mortgage proceedings, adverse possession, and other property disputes. The firm also represents major financial institutions in foreclosures for commercial property, from inception through to public auctions and the property’s subsequent sale.

Trusts & Estates — Planning, Administration & Litigation

Our trust and estate attorneys understand that every will or trust, no matter the size of the estate, should be crafted to effectively fulfill the client’s wishes. They know the value of advance planning and prepare Powers of Attorney and Health Care Proxies as part of every estate plan. Post-death tax planning is also an important part of our work.

Our attorneys have helped clients save hundreds of thousands of dollars in estate taxes. They have assisted clients with closely-held businesses to create gift giving plans that let the older generation preserve control during lifetime, while securing valuable discounts to reduce the taxable estate of the creator of the business. In addition, our attorneys have successfully litigated countless probate and accounting disputes.

Our firm is known for paying a meticulous attention to detail in administering clients’ estates, whether the decedent died with or without a will. Our attorneys use their interpersonal skills to preserve and strengthen family ties that are often strained by the death of a family member.

Guardianships

A Guardianship Proceeding is often the only way to protect and to finalize decisions on important matters for those who are incapacitated due to age, a physical or mental disability, or a temporary condition such as injury, illness or addiction. Our attorneys have successfully represented petitioners in a wide range of Guardianship Proceedings, including Special Needs Trusts, where physically and/or mentally disabled individuals can enjoy the use of property held in trust while still receiving essential needs-based government benefits.

Our Guardianship services include:

Incapacity
Special Needs Trusts

Business & Corporate Law & Litigation

Banking