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Bar Admission:
New Jersey - Superior, Appellate and Supreme Court
New York - Federal - Southern and Eastern District
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit and United States Supreme Court
Admitted, Pro Hac Vice in various states, predominantly involving real estate brokerage, business fraud and related issues and valuation disputes.
Education:
J.D., Rutgers School of Law-Newark, 1975
B.S., Long Island University, CW Post
Alan Wasserman is a shareholder with Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer P.A. Between 1973 and 1980, Mr. Wasserman was a law clerk and then associated with the Wilentz office, practicing in the field of personal injury litigation. Mr. Wasserman left in 1980 to form the law firm which eventually evolved into the law offices of Wasserman & Cooke. As Mr. Wasserman states, he merely took a 19 year sabbatical before coming home to Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer.
Mr. Wasserman has been an attorney since 1975, practicing in the field of litigation. He is a trial attorney that has tried in excess of 235 matters. Prior to attending law school, Mr. Wasserman was a practicing accountant, with his own practice in New York City. Mr. Wasserman is certified as a Civil Trial Attorney by the Supreme Court of New Jersey and is also certified, nationally, as a Civil Trial Specialist, as designated by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and the American Bar Association.
Mr. Wasserman represented a client who sued one of the "big four" accounting firms for accounting malpractice. On October 10, 2008, after a twenty-four day jury trial, Mr. Wasserman received for the benefit of his clients, a verdict of $31,800,000. Together with court interest, the verdict exceeded $41,000,000.
Mr. Wasserman has collected in excess of $2,000,000 of real estate commissions for brokers, each year, for the past ten years. In 1997 Mr. Wasserman collected $3.7 million. In 1999 Mr. Wasserman collected in excess of $6 million for the brokers. One of those litigations involved a $5.1 million recovery. In 2001 Mr. Wasserman obtained in excess of $3.6 million in summary judgments for his brokers (all sums collected). In 2002 Mr. Wasserman obtained in excess of $2.5 million in summary judgments (all sums collected). In 2003 Mr. Wasserman collected in excess of $4,000,000 of commissions.
Mr. Wasserman lectures throughout the United States to various professionals (including trial lawyers) regarding issues of commercial real estate commissions, accounting malpractice, lender liability, commercial litigation, partnership and stockholder rights and split ups and corporate and tax valuation disputes.
Mr. Wasserman has extensive practice experience in the Chancery and Appellate Courts of New Jersey and has appeared before the New Jersey Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Superior Court, New Jersey Federal courts as well as other state and federal courts throughout the United States.
Mr. Wasserman was an adjunct professor at New Jersey's medical school, teaching second year medical students "medicine and the law" and has lectured at Monmouth University in the Real Estate Division on real estate broker laws and regulations.
The philosophy which Mr. Wasserman brings from his law firm practice is twofold: (1) Quality first and the money will follow, and (2) at the end of the case, hopefully, the client should make more money than the lawyer (unless representation involves a defense litigation).
Mr. Wasserman has also been successful on numerous occasions, in avoiding litigation by analyzing the dispute before it becomes a litigation and resolving the dispute from strength, rather than weakness.
Most of Mr. Wasserman's practice is generated from previous and existing clients and referrals from clients, judges, adversaries and adverse parties. Some of the representative clients that Mr. Wasserman has assisted (in alphabetical order) are listed below:
· Amper, Politziner & Mattia, C.P.A.
· Atlantic Development
· Cushman & Wakefield
· Eric Bram Company
· George Mintz & Co.
· Grubb & Ellis
· James E. Hanson & Company
· Joseph Hilton Associates
· J. Studley
· Landis (Entities)
· Lang Wooten
· Lee & Klatskin Associates
· Lionel Levey & Co.
· LMD Warehouse & Distribution
· Mt. Bethel Development
· Newmark
· Resource Realty
· Schultz Organization
· Seaview Orthopedics
· Sheldon Gross Realty
· Weichert Commercial
· Many accounting and law firms (split-ups)
Mr. Wasserman is a member of various Bar associations and is most proud of his appointment as a member of the American Association for Justice- New Jersey (previously known as ATLA-NJ), Board of Governors. Mr. Wasserman has been a board member since approximately 1986. Mr. Wasserman was also elected by his fellow attorneys as a trustee for the ATLA-PAC. In his capacity as a member of the Board of Govenors and Trustee, he has spoken to many politicians (some of whom he represents) in trying to bring forth relevant and important issues to the legislature for the benefit of Mr. Wasserman's clients.
Mr. Wasserman is a contributing author to the Commercial Real Estate Transactions in New Jersey, published by the Institute for Continuing Legal Education (ICLE) 2003. Mr. Wasserman authored chapters on brokerage rights, agreements and related considerations.
Mr. Wasserman was selected for inclusion in New Jersey Super Lawyers® lists 2005-2009.
When Mr. Wasserman finds time to relax, he either runs marathons (has completed seven New York City Marathons), hikes, climbs mountains, scuba dives and is recently trying to follow a little white ball around a field of grass.
Practice Areas:
Complex Business, Brokerage, Contractual, and Commercial Litigation
Contract Condo Purchaser Rights
Areas of Emphasis:
Real Estate Brokerage Commission
Securities - Rights of the Investor/Broker
Corporate - Stockholder rights, break-ups, fraud
Partnership - partnership rights, break-ups, fraud
Contract breaches and fraud
Consumer fraud
Corporate fraud - Corporate/business fraud - investigation, advice to litigation
Physician rights and disputes
Accounting malpractice (defense and prosecution)
Various Tax and Valuation disputes - IRS, State and Private
Legal malpractice (prosecution and defense)
Personal injury - all significant matters involving personal injury and medical malpractice
Class Actions
Condominium Law - see www.no-condo.com
Presentations:
· For the past 20 years Mr. Wasserman has lectured before many real estate brokerage firms throughout the states.
· In 1999, Mr. Wasserman was invited to speak at the Grubb & Ellis national and annual meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada.
· Mr. Wasserman is a yearly lecturer at IOREBA and SIOR.
· In 1998 and continuing through 2001, Mr. Wasserman was the chairperson and co-lecturer for the American Trial Lawyers Association Boardwalk Seminar lecturing to fellow lawyers on Commercial Litigation issues.
· Mr. Wasserman has lectured over the years on various accountant malpractice and company valuation issues (private and IRS / State Division of Taxation disputes) as he is able to utilize his previous accounting background and practice as an advisor and litigator in such accounting related issues.
· Mr. Wasserman has also been retained by and spoken at various law firms involving such issues as employment rights, discrimination policies and associate loyalty.
· Over the years, Mr. Wasserman has lectured to various accounting/banking organizations in the field of accounting, reporting and responsibility together with banking responsibilities to its borrowers.
Publications:
· COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS IN NEW JERSEY
(Alan Wasserman, Esq., Author: Brokerage Agreements and
Related Considerations Chapter, NJ ICLE 2003)
Practice Area(s):
· » Brokerage Commission & Securities Litigation
· » Commercial Litigation
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