Greg S. Zucker

Greg S. Zucker is a senior partner in the Litigation Department of Westerman Ball Ederer Miller & Sharfstein LLP.  He is responsible for handling all types of commercial and business issues, and regularly practices in state and federal courts throughout the country, as well as alternative dispute proceedings.  He has a wide range of experience that includes bench and jury trials and appellate work in the areas of corporate and partnership disputes, shareholder derivative actions, dissolutions, real estate disputes, business torts, construction disputes, healthcare, RICO, anti-trust, insurance law disputes, intellectual property disputes (including trademark and patent litigation), internet law disputes, and other complex commercial and business disputes.  Greg has significant experience with respect to real estate matters, including specific performance issues, purchase and sale issues, brokerage disputes and commercial landlord/tenant disputes.  In connection with disputes between real estate partners, Greg has taken the lead with respect to the restructuring of major real estate holdings.  He is also approved as a Receiver in the State of New York and has been appointed by the Court as a Receiver in connection with real estate disputes.  In addition, he has been appointed by the Court to serve as the mediator and has successfully resolved cases in that capacity.  He also serves as outside corporate counsel to several national companies, advising them both on their day-to-day business, as well as major transactions. 

Greg served as Chairman of the Commercial Litigation Committee of the Nassau County Bar Association and is an active member of the Federal Courts Committee of the Nassau County Bar Association.  Greg has been appointed an Executive Committee Member of the prestigious The Theodore Roosevelt American Inn of Court.  Greg regularly gives seminars and hosts other programs relating to commercial and business issues.  Among other things, Greg has lectured on discovery, trial practice, dissolutions of businesses, business and property valuation issues, disputes between shareholders, real estate issues, brokerage issues, e-discovery and expert disclosure.   

Together with Jeff Miller, Greg previously wrote a monthly column for the New York Law Journal analyzing court decisions influencing the business community.  Greg previously co-authored “Divorcing Your Business Partner” (Long Island Magazine, June 1998), and “Property Insurance May Cover Y2K Costs” (Long Island Magazine, October 1999), and contributed to “Despite ADR Consent, IP Cases End Up In Court” (The National Law Journal, October 20, 1997).  

Greg earned his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1997, where he served as a committee chairperson on the Moot Court Board.  Greg received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College in 1994, where he graduated cum laude and played for the varsity baseball team.

Greg is an officer of the Dartmouth Alumni Club of Long Island, and is a member of the Boards of the Roslyn Little League and Roslyn Booster Basketball. 


 
 


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