Appeals

Gene Rosen’s Law Firm handles all aspects of appellate work, including:

  • Notices of appeal
  • Appellant’s, respondent’s, and reply briefs
  • Record on appeal
  • Appendix
  • Appellate printing
  • Argument of appeals
  • Motions for leave to appeal to higher appellate court
  • Motions for enlargement of time to perfect appeal
  • Motions to consolidate appeals
  • Motions to dismiss appeals
  • Motions for reargument of appeals
  • Motions to restore appeals

Arbitration

When handled properly, arbitration is an efficient alternative to traditional litigation. The firm’s arbitration practice is overseen by Gene Rosen, who is an expert in the field with over a decade of experience handling all aspects of arbitration. The firm’s practice assists clients with the following:

  • Initiating arbitration
  • Compelling arbitration
  • Staying arbitration
  • Litigation and appeals of applications to compel or stay arbitration
  • Litigation in aid of arbitration
  • Discovery
  • Arbitration hearings
  • Arbitrator selection and disqualification
  • Post arbitration objections
  • Confirming arbitration awards
  • Modifying arbitration awards
  • Vacating arbitration awards
  • Litigation and appeals of applications to confirm, modify, and vacate awards

Bankruptcy

The firm’s bankruptcy practice represents creditors in bankruptcy court. The services that the firm’s bankruptcy practice provides to its clients includes the following:

  • Proof of claim
  • Objections to claims
  • Defense of adversary proceedings to recover preferential and fraudulent transfers
  • Adversary proceedings to object to discharge of debts
  • Adversary proceedings to challenge discharge ability of debts
  • 341 meetings
  • Relief from automatic stay
  • Dismissal of bankruptcy

Collections

The firm’s collections practice handles both commercial and consumer collections for clients of all types, including the following:

  • Demand letters
  • Litigation
  • Arbitration
  • Judgments
  • Freezing bank accounts, safe deposit boxes, and merchant accounts
  • Wage garnishments
  • Property executions
  • Turnovers
  • Investigations
  • Debtor examinations
  • Installment payment orders
  • Contempt proceedings
  • Fraudulent conveyances
  • Piercing corporate veils
  • Domestication of foreign judgments

Consumer Protection

The firm’s consumer protection practice defends its clients’ rights in a variety of matters, including:

  • Defense of collection claims and lawsuits
  • Vacating default judgments
  • Frozen bank accounts and safe deposit boxes
  • Foreclosure defense
  • Identity theft and mistaken identity issues
  • Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
  • Fair Credit Reporting Act
  • Telephone Consumer Protection Act
  • New York General Business Law 349 Claims
  • New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act

Contracts

The firm’s contracts practice drafts, reviews, and negotiates contracts of all types for clients. Examples of some of the contracts the firm and its attorneys have worked on include:

  • Professional service agreements
  • Employment agreements
  • Independent contractor agreements
  • Commissioned salesperson agreements
  • Property sales contracts
  • Goods sales contracts
  • Commercial and residential leases
  • Equipment leases
  • Home improvement contractor agreements
  • Vendor agreements
  • Security contracts
  • Class action waivers
  • Indemnity agreements
  • Exculpatory agreements
  • Waiver of subrogration agreements
  • Arbitration agreements
  • Mediation agreements
  • Settlement agreements
  • Confidentiality agreements
  • Intellectual property rights agreements
  • Prenuptial agreements
  • Postnuptial agreements

Corporate

The firm’s corporate practice provides full service representation for its corporate clients, including the following:

  • Business formation
  • Bylaws
  • Operating agreements
  • Certificates of change and amendment
  • Employment and contractor agreements
  • Service and vendor agreements
  • Negotiations
  • Leasing and sales
  • Professional licensing
  • Legal compliance
  • Securities
  • Collections
  • Dispute resolution

Credit Card Debt

The firm’s credit card debt practice assists people and business in negotiating settlements of credit card debt and defending against collection lawsuits. The services the firm’s practice provides its clients includes the following:

  • Negotiations and settlement
  • Payoff letters
  • Disputing debts
  • Removing debts from credit reports
  • Lawsuits
  • Vacating default judgments
  • Frozen bank accounts and safe deposit boxes
  • Fair Debt Collection Practices Act claims
  • Fair Credit Reporting Act claims

Healthcare

The firm’s healthcare practice assists clients in the following aspects of healthcare:

  • Medical collections
  • Employment and contractor agreements
  • HIPAA compliance
  • Medical malpractice defense
  • Employment disputes

Intellectual Property

The firm’s intellectual property practice provides the following services for clients:

  • Licensing agreements
  • Trademark registration
  • Trademark enforcement
  • Trademark litigation
  • Copyright registration
  • Copyright enforcement
  • Copyright litigation
  • Patent enforcement
  • Patent litigation

Labor & Employment

The firm’s labor & employment assists clients with the following:

  • Employment and contractor agreements
  • Commissioned salesperson agreements
  • Sales representative agreements
  • Employee handbooks
  • Sexual harassment prevention policies and training
  • Discrimination claims
  • Harassment claims
  • Wage and hour claims
  • Litigation and arbitration of disputes

Foreclosure Defense

The firm’s foreclosure defense practice defends individuals, families, and businesses in residential and commercial foreclosure proceedings. Our goal is to find a solution so that our clients can keep their property, or, if not, then to permit them to depart on their own terms. The frim’s practice provides the following services:

  • Short sales
  • Refinancing
  • Answers
  • Motions to dismiss
  • Summary judgment opposition
  • Orders to show cause
  • Temporary restraining orders
  • Preliminary injunctions

Landlord-Tenant

The firm’s landlord-tenant practice represents both landlords and tenants, including the following:

  • Lease negotiations
  • Surrender negotiations
  • Collection of rent arrears
  • Negotiation of rent arrears payment plans
  • Warranty of habitability
  • Elevator problems
  • Holdover proceedings
  • Nonpayment proceedings
  • HP actions
  • Rent control and rent stabilization succession rights
  • Motions to dismiss
  • Discovery
  • Motions for summary judgment
  • Trials
  • Evictions
  • Orders to show cause
  • Appeals

Legal Malpractice

The firm represents people and businesses that are victims of egregious legal malpractice. The firm handles all aspects of malpractice claims from inception through trial and appeal. The firm also assists clients in filing claims with the Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection and complaints with Grievance Committees when appropriate.

Litigation

Litigation is the cornerstone of Gene Rosen’s Law Firm. The firm’s litigation practice handles all aspects of litigation from inception through trial and appeal. The firm’s practice represents clients in contested matters in federal, state, and local courts in New York and throughout the country, as well as before independent arbitration tribunals.

Personal Injury

The firm represents people who have sustained serious injuries resulting from accidents. The firm’s personal injury practice handles all aspects of cases from inception through trial and appeal.

Prenuptial

The firm prepares and negotiates prenuptial and postnuptial agreements so that couples can focus on their happiness, knowing that their affairs will be in order if they ever separate. The firm also provides “kosher” agreements that comply with religious law.

Professional Licensing

The firm assists individuals and businesses in obtaining professional licenses. The licensing process is often complicated, involving, education, examination, background checks, and probing applications. The firm’s professional licensing practice assists its clients in navigating that process, including representation during licensing hearing when necessary.

Real Estate

The firm’s real estate practice represents clients in both transactional and litigated real estate matters, including:

  • Purchase and sale of residential and commercial property
  • Mortgages
  • Land sale contracts
  • 1031 exchanges
  • Landlord-tenant
  • Specific performance litigation
  • Breach of contract litigation
  • lis pendens
  • Injunctions

Securities

The firm’s securities practice assists businesses in engaging in securities transactions and managing compliance issues.

Student Loans

Student loans burden people long after their education is complete. The firm’s student loans practice assists people in negotiating payment plans for their student loans and defending them against lawsuit to collect unpaid student loans.

Wills

The firm’s wills, trusts & estates practice assists individuals and families with their estate planning.

Violations

Gene Rosen’s Law Firm defends its clients against various violations, including:

  • Parking tickets
  • Traffic tickets
  • Fire code violations
  • Building code violations
  • Business Integrity Commission violations