Real Estate Assistant

DAVID M. POLLACK

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Cell: 914-***-**** Email: ***************@*****.*** Professional Profile

• Recipient of NYC Special Federal Litigation Division Chief Award 2009.

• Over 25 years of successful litigation experience in the US District Court of SDNY and EDNY New York, the US District Court of Connecticut and the New York Supreme Court.

• Counsel and litigator on Federal Civil Rights Actions, Bankruptcy, Environmental Testing, Corporate Reorganization, Creditor Representation and a Major Narcotics Bureau.

• Supervised and trained staff in Cross Examination of Medical Experts and day-to-day litigation management.

Professional Experience Licensed Insurance Agent

New York Life Insurance Company, New York, NY. August 2015-Present

• Retirement Planning

• Tax Exempt Investments

• College Savings

• Estate Planning

• Long Term Care

Assistant Corporation Counsel / Senior Trial Specialist NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF LAW, New York, NY, April 2006- August 2015

• Federal Litigation Counsel to the City of New York and City agencies defending Federal Civil Rights Actions including §1983, §1985 and Title VII Employment actions in US District Courts in the SDNY and EDNY from inception through discovery and trial.

• Litigate complex, class action and media publicized cases. Analyze and advise clients on settlement value.

• Successfully defended numerous jury trials in the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. 2009 Division Chief Award recipient.

• Instructor of staff for continuing legal education regarding Cross-Examination of Medical Experts- May 2010.

• Supervise staff on day to day litigation/claims management.

• Conduct and prepare depositions and discovery and confer with outside counsel as necessary Counsel

DAVID M. POLLACK, ESQ. Yorktown Heights, NY August 2004 - March 2006

• Counsel to a standing SDNY Bankruptcy Trustee in various estate matters.

• Representation of corporate clients in all phases of litigation, including discovery, motion practice and successful trial defense of a shareholder derivative action and breach of contract action in NY State Supreme Court.

• Successful representation of an environmental testing corporation, as well as Family Court Proceedings. Senior Litigation Associate

TODTMAN, NACHAMIE, SPIZZ & JOHNS, P.C. 425 Park Avenue, New York, NY May 2003 - July 2004

• Coordinated, prosecuted and defended various client interests in commercial litigation, including large commercial property owners.

• Counsel to Bankruptcy Panel Trustee in SDNY in all phases of litigation & liquidation, including liquidation of Extreme Championship Wrestling.

Of Counsel/Senior Litigation Counsel

SERCHUK & ZELERMYER, LLP, White Plains, New York, November 1998 - April 2003

• Represented major creditor interests in commercial litigation.

• Lead counsel to Bankruptcy Trustee in In Re: Churchill Mortgage Company, a complex ponzi scheme involving liquidation of real estate assets and claims.

• Coordinated and prosecuted recovery actions and competing claims of various factions including defendants, creditors and creditor committee counsel.

• Coordinated review and analysis of massive corporate documents and successfully prosecuted recovery actions. Senior Litigation Associate

GAINSBURG & HIRSCH, LLP, New York, New York, August 1992 - November 1998

• Conducted complex recovery litigation, including extensive motion and trial practice in areas such as medical malpractice, mass asbestos personal injury in In Re: Seatrain Lines, Inc. and real estate Ponzi Schemes.

• Supervised attorneys and paralegals in representation of a panel trustee in the SDNY.

• Analyzed and operated businesses to preserve and increase value.

• Lead counsel to Trustee in In Re: Colonial Realty Company, a massive ponzi scheme and the largest bankruptcy in Connecticut state history.

• Consolidated fifteen corporate debtors and prosecuted recovery actions, including preferential transfers, and fraudulent transfers and review and challenge claims in the US District Court, Hartford, Connecticut. Litigation Associate

KLEIN & GENOVA, Newburgh, New York, August 1991 - August 1992

• Conducted all litigation including depositions.

• Conducted prosecution of adversary proceedings, preference litigation.

• Contested matters in firm specializing in bankruptcy, corporate reorganization and creditor representation. Assistant District Attorney

OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY, Kings County, Brooklyn, New York Appeals Bureau - Supreme Court - Major Case Narcotics, August 1988 -August 1991

• Counsel to the District Attorney. Responsible for all phases of appellate litigation.

• Wrote and argued appellate briefs in the Second Department, as well as motions in the Supreme Court.

• Chief Counsel to the Major Narcotics Bureau where we investigated and spearheaded prosecution of major felony narcotics cases through conviction.

• Prosecutor in People v. Hugo Santillana (1989), which established that the co-conspirator confession rule established in Cruz v. New York, 481 US 186 and Bruton v. US did not apply to bench trials. EDUCATION

J.D., BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL, Brooklyn, New York May 1988 Moot Court Honor Society, With Distinction

Author: 1987 National Moot Court Competition Problem Semi-finalist: 1988 J. Braxton Craven National Constitutional Law Competition B.A., STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK Brockport, New York English, Minor History, 1985

Cum Laude, Dean's List 1981-1985, Alumni Scholarship 1985 Resident Advisor 1982-1985

Loughborough University of Technology, Leicestershire England English Literature 1983-1984

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

New York Bar – 1989

Connecticut Bar – 1989

LICENSE

Notary Public in New York State

COMPUTER SKILLS

Concordance, Summation, Hot Docs, Lexis Nexis, Law Manager Pro, ECF, Pacer, MS Access, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel and Word

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