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The Law Office of Richard A. Klass, Esq.

Providing legal services to individuals, families, businesses and other law firms.
Attorneys admitted to New York and New Jersey.

Areas of Practice

• Abandoned property petitions and litigation
• Bankruptcy (Chapters 7, 11 and 13; for both debtor and creditor)
• Debt Collection
  • Attorney fee collection
  • Consumer and commercial debt collection
  • Enforcement of Judgments
  • Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (prosecution and defense)
• Family Law and Matrimonial Law
  • Family law, including child custody and visitation, Orders of Protection, child support, and private placement adoptions
  • Matrimonial law, including divorce, annulment, and prenuptial and separation agreements
  • Name change applications
• Insurance and no-fault benefits
• Legal Malpractice, breach of fiduciary duty, attorney negligence
• Litigation: commercial and general litigation
  • Civil Appeals, both Federal and State courts
  • Federal Court litigation
• Personal injury
• Medical Malpractice
• Workers Compensation ("Worker's Comp")
• Real estate litigation
• Foreclosure: mortgage and lien foreclosure
• Foreclosure: residential and commercial litigation and assistance
• Property damage
• Real estate transactions: for real property, condominiums, and cooperative units
• Wills and Probate; administration of decedent's estates

And those cases that do not fit into a "pigeon hole."

What Supreme Court Justices Want You to Know

A continuing legal education (CLE) seminar for attorneys.

Presented by a distinguished judicial panel consisting of:

Justice Lawrence S. Knipel,
Justice Abraham G. Gerges,
Justice Arthur M. Schack,
Justice Martin M. Solomon,
and Justice Ellen Spodek.

Moderated by:

Richard A. Klass, Esq.

May 11, 2010
St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, New York
Offered by the National Business Institute (NBI)
Register today by calling: 800-930-6182
Or click here and sign up now.

Use this link to download the course description in Acrobat PDF format.
CLE credits: 7.0

Get the newest edition of Law CURRENTS

Richard Klass writes and publishes Law CURRENTS, the firm's quarterly newsletter.
The current edition is available here:

$73K Buys $200,000 House Thanks to Debtor’s "Hat Trick" Screw-up. Winter 2010

The foreclosure auction of the defendant’s Staten Island house came up on a Wednesday at 9:30AM. The courtroom was packed with people ready to bid on the house. The Referee announced the sale of the house, took bids, and struck down the sale at $73,000 to the successful bidder. Moments later, the Referee informed the successful bidder that one of the two owners of the house had filed bankruptcy at 9:26AM; therefore, the foreclosure sale was invalid and the bidder should take back his bid deposit. At that moment, the successful bidder called Richard A. Klass, Your Court Street Lawyer about whether the sale was indeed invalid...." (more)

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