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Richard Kaye, a member of the Firm, specializes in state and federal court litigation. He has broad civil litigation and arbitration experience, at both the trial and appellate levels, and concentrates in corporate, commercial, contract, consumer credit, real estate and construction matters, as well as employment and matrimonial law.
Mr. Kaye represents several major banking institutions, many companies involved in technology, retail and service businesses, real estate brokerage firms, various condominium associations and cooperative corporations, as well as many professional practices in a variety of fields, including medicine and accounting. He has extensive litigation experience in matters involving complex commercial transactions, business disputes and dissolutions, commercial real estate matters, consumer credit claims under state and federal statutes, including the Fair Credit Reporting and Fair Debt Collection Practices Acts, and construction and mechanic’s lien matters. Mr. Kaye also provides general legal representation to numerous individuals in a wide range of family, business and real estate transactions.
A former Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan, Mr. Kaye is admitted to practice law before the courts of New York as well as the United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Mr. Kaye was a founding partner of Berger & Kaye LLP and, previously, a partner at Bangser Klein Rocca & Blum and at Carb Luria Glassner Cook & Kufeld in Manhattan. He is a member of the American and New York State Bar Associations and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and has been active in committee work relating to civil procedure and the judiciary. He presently serves on the Board of Directors of, and as counsel to, the Ronald McDonald Family Room at Maria Fareri Children's Hospital in Westchester County, New York. In addition to being an active participant in Continuing Legal Education programs focusing on civil litigation topics, Mr. Kaye has been an instructor in civil litigation for the Marymount Manhattan College Paralegal Studies Program and has served as an attorney-arbitrator in the Small Claims Part of the Civil Court of the City of New York in Manhattan.
Mr. Kaye received a Juris Doctor degree from The George Washington University Law School in 1978, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, from Clark University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
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