A Partner and Chairman of the Bankruptcy & Financial Restructuring practice group, Eric has practiced exclusively in banking, creditor’s rights, bankruptcy and commercial litigation since 1984.

Practice Highlights

His clients include unsecured creditors committees, banks, trustees, national and international real estate developers. Examples of his success include the representation of the creditors’ committees in the restructuring proceedings involving the Greate Bay Hotel and Casino, Southern Jersey Airlines and the Claridge Hotel and Casino. He also was a member of the United States Trustee’s private panel of trustees.

A prolific author, Eric has written and edited numerous texts for creditors on recovery strategies, including Debt Recovery: Maintaining the Competitive Edge; Bankruptcy: A Source Manual for the Workout Specialist in New Jersey; Creditors Rights: Effective Recovery Strategies After the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1994; and Debt Recovery Under the New Bankruptcy Act: A Recovery Manual for the Workout Specialist in New Jersey.

He has served as an adjunct Professor in Business Law at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and at Atlantic Community College.

Credentials

New Jersey Bankers AssociationNew Jersey Mortgage Bankers AssociationNew Jersey Consumer Creditors AssociationAmerican Bankruptcy InstituteNational Association of TrusteesCreditor Debtor’s Section of the New Jersey Bar Association and the Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations Lectured throughout the United States on creditor’s rights to attorneys, bankers, accountants, trustees and national consumer and commercial lending institutions

Education

A magna cum laude graduate of American University (B.S. 1979) and Cornell Law School (J.D. 1982, Pi Sigma Alpha Honor Society), Eric was admitted to the bar in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in 1982, Kentucky, the United States District Court, District of New Jersey, the United States Third Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States Tax Court, and the United States Supreme Court in 1983.

Publications

Will the Bankruptcy Bill Protect You When The Delinquency Wave Hits? Bankruptcy BulletinRevenge Of The Lightweight noneThe New and Revised Bankruptcy Code: Return to the Dark Days of Yesteryear Bankruptcy BulletinImportant Warnings with Respect to Property Held as Tenancy by the Entireties Bankruptcy BulletinThe Art of Asset Protection Bankruptcy BulletinU.S. Supreme Court changes rules on IRA’s Website