Gallet Dreyer & Berkey, LLP : Attorneys

David L. Berkey

Partner

Tel: 212-935-3131, Ext. 301
Fax: 212-935-4514
Email:

Areas of Practice

Experience

For more than thirty years, Mr. Berkey has been counsel to numerous cooperative and condominium boards, banks, insurance companies and individuals, giving advice to them about co-op and condo law, preparing their contracts, handling their transactions and litigating their claims. Mr. Berkey has been a featured panelist at Habitat Magazine and a speaker at seminars sponsored by the City Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, New York County Lawyers Association, Practicing Law Institute, Council of New York Cooperatives & Condominiums, Inc. and the Community Associations Institute, among others, concerning fiduciary duties and responsibilities of board members and managing agents, the rights of minority shareholders, workouts and sponsor defaults, the purchase and sale of cooperative apartments and condominium units, current developments in co-op and condo law and many other cooperative and condominium issues. A seasoned litigator, Mr. Berkey has been a faculty member of Cardozo Law School’s Intensive Trial Advocacy Program for more than twenty years.

Bar Admissions

New York, 1975
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 1976
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, 1976
U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit, 1982
U.S. Supreme Court, 1986

Education

Cornell Law School, Ithaca, New York, 1975
> Editor, Cornell International Law Journal
> Honors: With Honors
New York University, University Heights, Bronx, New York 1972
> Honors: With Honors, Perstare et Praestare, Tau Beta Pi
> University Senator, Editor-in-Chief of Violet Yearbook
> Major: Industrial Engineering

Honors

Selected as a “Super Lawyer” in 2007 and 2008. This is an honor given to fewer than five percent of the state’s most respected attorneys.

Published Works

New York Practice Guide, Real Estate, Condominiums, Cooperatives and Homeowners Associations, Matthew Bender & Co., Inc., 1988.

Professional Associations and Memberships

New York State Bar Association – Co-Chairman, Committee on Membership, 2007—
New York State Bar Association – Co-Chairman, Committee on Condominiums and Cooperatives, 2000-2007
New York State Bar Association – Secretary, Committee on Condominiums and Cooperatives, 1996-2000
Association of the Bar of the City of New York – Member, Committee on Condominium and Cooperative Law, 1994-1995
Association of the Bar of the City of New York – Chairman, Subcommittee on the Effects of Bankruptcy on Cooperatives & Condominiums, 1994-1995
Adjunct Faculty – Cardozo Law School, Intensive Trial Advocacy Program, 1985-Present