New York Office
16 Court Street, 29th
Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11241
Phone: (718) COURT • ST or
(718) 643-6063
E-mail: richklass@courtstreetlaw.com
Richard A. Klass
The Law Office of Richard A. Klass, Esq.
Areas of Practice
The law office of Richard Klass provides a full range of legal services to individuals, families, businesses and other law firms. Attorneys admitted to: New York and New Jersey.
- Abandoned property petitions and litigation
- Attorney fee collections
- Bankruptcy (Chapters 7, 11 and 13; for both debtor and creditor)
- Civil Appeals, both Federal and State courts
- Commercial and general litigation
- Debt collection: consumer and commercial
- Enforcement of Judgments
- Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
- Family law, including child custody and visitation, Orders of Protection, child support, and private placement adoptions
- Federal Court litigation
- Foreclosure litigation and assistance: residential and commercial
- Insurance and No-fault benefits
- Legal Malpractice, breach of fiduciary duty, attorney negligence
- Matrimonial law, including divorce, annulment, and prenuptial and separation agreements
- Medical Malpractice
- Mortgage and lien foreclosure
- Name change applications
- Personal injury
- Property damage
- Real estate litigation
- Real estate transactions, for real property, condominiums, and cooperative units
- Wills and Probate; Administration of decedent's estates
- Workers Compensation ("Worker's Comp")
And those cases that do not fit into a "pigeon hole."
Richard Klass personally writes "Law CURRENTS," the firm's in-house newsletter. The current edition is available here:
Don’t Give Me a Black Russian!
Spring 2009
In 2006, the executor of the estate of a woman who owned a cooperative apartment in Brooklyn attempted to sell the apartment. She first made a contract with a black woman who had two children to sell the apartment for $160,000. The contract of sale provided (as almost all do in cooperative apartment sales) that the buyer had to apply to the coop board for approval of the sale. She applied to the coop board for approval; then, dissention came about between the resident board members and the sponsor-management company. Despite supposedly being “approved” by the residents on the board, the management company claimed that the board was not legally constituted; accordingly, no closing of title would be scheduled.... (more)
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