|
MICHAEL C. ADGES is a sole practitioner in Mineloa, New York, where he focuses his practice in the area of real estate, including residential and commercial contracts, and closings and representation of lending institutions. Other areas of his practice include landlord-tenant law, bankruptcy, commercial, criminal, corporate, and matrimonial. Mr. Adges is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New York, and before the Supreme Court of the United States and the U.S. District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. He is a member of the Nassau County, New York State, Queens County, Pennsylvania, and American bar associations; the Association of Trial Lawyers of America; the National Association of Realtors; the New York State Association of Realtors; the Long Island Board of Realtors; and the Queens Volunteer Lawyers Project, Inc. Mr. Adges earned his B.A. degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and his J.D. degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. MARC GERBER opened the law firm of Marc Gerber Attorney at Law, P.C., in 1994. He focuses his practice in the area of real estate, including the representation of purchasers and sellers of residential and commercial real estate, and the representation of lending institutions and private lenders in residential and commercial real estate transactions. Mr. Gerber has lectured on numerous occasions for the New York State Bar Association and the National Business Institute on a variety of topics relating to real estate transactions and title insurance issues. He is a graduate of Benjamin Cardozo School of Law. Following law school, Mr. Gerber was an attorney with law firms of Rivkin Radler LLP, and Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, P.C. He is a member of the faculty of Queens College, teaching Real Property Law in the Paralegal Studies Certificate Program. Mr. Gerber also is a member of the New York State Bar Association. STEPHEN W. HAMMEL is counsel to MacGregor Abstract. Mr. Hammel previously was with Columbia Title & Abstract Corporation in Centerport, New York. Prior to joining Columbia Title & Abstract, Mr. Hammel served as counsel to Chicago Title Insurance Company in Mineola, New York, and had a law practice with a concentration in real estate. He also served as a mortgage closing department supervisor at the Green Point Savings Bank, in Flushing, New York. Furthermore, Mr. Hammel is the chairman of the Reformed Church in America's New York Synod Judicial Business Committee, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Reformed Church's Building and Extension Fund. He is an instructor at the Long Island University School of Continuing Education. Mr. Hammel is admitted to practice law in New York and Connecticut, and New York's Eastern and Southern federal districts. He earned his B.B.A. degree in banking and finance from Hofstra University and his J.D. degree from Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center. PAUL A. LANNI is an attorney with the law firm of Blodnick, Conroy, Fazio & Diglio, P.C. His practice areas include commercial litigation, general litigation, real estate and complex real estate workouts, landlord/tenant law, foreclosures, estate planning and estate litigation, matrimonial and family law, corporate law and business planning, personal injury, bankruptcy, and vehicle and traffic law. Mr. Lanni has been a CLE lecturer for the National Business Institute for various programs concerning issues on landlord/tenant, foreclosure, real estate purchase agreements and title issues, and civil litigation. He earned his B.A. degree from SUNY at Stony Brook; his paralegal certificate from Adelphi University; and his J.D. degree from Touro College, Jacob D. Fuchberg Law Center. He was admitted to the bar of the State of New York in 1997. Mr. Blodnick also has been admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern and Southern districts of New York, as well as before the U.S. Court of Claims. PETER T. ROACH maintains his law offices, Peter T. Roach & Associates, P.C., in Syosset, New York. Mr. Roach graduated from S.U.N.Y. at Binghamton in 1973 and St. John's University School of Law in 1978, where he received the American Jurisprudence Award in Commercial Transactions. Upon graduation from St. John's, he founded his own mortgage banking company and upon his admission to the bar in 1979, began representing both individual and institutional creditors in the mortgage industry. Since 1988, Mr. Roach has served as an adjunct professor of law at St. John's Law teaching title insurance, suretyship and mortgages and real estate drafting. He also has lectured for St. John's University School of Law Continuing Legal Education Program, New York State, Queens and Nassau County bar associations, and the Practicing Law Institute. Mr. Roach was elected as a New York Metro Area Super Lawyer for 2008, 2009 and 2010 in the real estate field, an honor given to only five percent of the attorneys in the metropolitan area. He has also been given an AV rating by Martindale. Mr. Roach is admitted to practice in the courts of the state of New York; the U.S. District Court for the Northern, Western, Southern, and Eastern Districts of New York; and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a member of the Board of Directors of St John's University School of Law, where he served as president from 2002-2004; the International Network of Boutique Law Firms, where he served as president of the New York Chapter from 2007-2010; and the bar associations of Nassau County and New York State.
|