LAW OFFICE OF STEVEN RIKER

ATTORNEY PROFILE

Steven M. Riker, Esq. 

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Areas of Practice

• Commercial and Business Litigation

• Real Estate Transactions and Litigation

• Contract Negotiation and Business Transactions

• Hotel and Hospitality Law

• Mediation and Arbitration

• Wills, Trusts and Estates​​

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Bar Admissions

• New York

• Connecticut

• United States Supreme Court

• United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit

• U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York

• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York

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Professional Honors 

• Martindale-Hubbell "AV Preeminent" Peer Rated 

• Martindale-Hubbell Client Champion, Platinum Award 

• New York Magazine, New York Area's Top Rated Lawyers

• Corporate LiveWire, Best Real Estate Law Services, New York 

• Marquis Who's Who in American Law

• Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Panel Member

• Yale Club, Lecturer, CLE Seminar, Litigation and Real Estate Topics

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Reported Decisions

• Ayala v. S.S. Fortaleza/Bosco; Besignano & Mascolo; Esqs. v. Heller
  40 AD3d 440, 836 NYS2d 584 (1st Dep't 2007) 
   

• Staples v. W.J.R. Associates
  2005 U.S. Dist. Lexis 7220 (E.D.N.Y., February 28, 2005) 
   

• E-Lead Elec. Co. v. Tecnozone Enters., LLC
  2004 U.S. Dist. Lexis 15181 (S.D.N.Y., August 4, 2004) 
   

• Boat Basin Investors, Inc., v. First Am. Stock Transfer, Inc.
  2003 U.S. Dist. Lexis 1838, 2003 WL 282144 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 7, 2003) 
   

• Good Life Productions v. The Down Town Association
  267 AD2d 153, 699 NYS2d 864 (1st Dep't 1999) 
   

• Estate of Laurie Lee
  N.Y.L.J., September 13, 1999, at p. 29, cols. 2 -3 (Surr., Ct, NY Cty.) 
   

• Bonsignore v. DeBove Inc.
  N.Y.L.J., June 24, 1998, at p. 26, col. 5 (Civ. Ct., NY Cty.) 
   

• Vogel v. Lyman
  246 AD2d 422, 668 NYS2d 162 (1st Dep't 1998)

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Professional Associations and Memberships

• Bar Association of the City of New York

• New York County Lawyers' Association

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Education

• New York University, Post-Graduate Professional Legal Education and Training,
  Conflict and Dispute Resolution
   

• Pace University School of Law, White Plains, New York, 1994
  Doctor of Jurisprudence with honors

  Honors: Ranking Scholar and Dean's List
  Pace Law Review, Casenote and Comment Editor
  National Moot Court Team, Member

   

• State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York, 1991
  B.A., Political Science, cum laude

  Honors: Dean's List (every semester)
  Pi Sigma Alpha Honor Society

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Birth Information

• Brooklyn, New York, United States of America