Gallet Dreyer & Berkey, LLP : Attorneys

Morrell I. Berkowitz

Partner

Tel: 212-935-3131, Ext. 303
Fax: 212-935-4511
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Areas of Practice

Experience

For more than thirty years, Mr. Berkowitz has handled a variety of litigation from trials through appeals, in all courts in New York with respect to every aspect of real estate law. These matters include partnership disputes; transaction disputes; disputes between cooperative and condominium boards and shareholders and owners; disputes between boards and sponsors and professionals and contractors; and commercial and residential disputes concerning conditions, terms of lease, and the like.

He has served as a volunteer Special Master in Supreme Court, New York County mediating real estate disputes in pending actions since May, 1997, and as a volunteer Judge at New York University Law School’s moot court program since 1981.

Bar Admissions

New York, 1975
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 1975
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, 1975
U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit, 1976
Massachusetts, 1977
U.S. Supreme Court, 1978
U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, 1980
Pennsylvania, 1981

Education

Boston College Law School, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts J.D., 1974
> Finalist, Wendell F. Grimes Moot Court Competition and Best Brief Award, 1973
> Executive Director, Boston College Legal Assistance Bureau, 1972-1974
Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ, 1970-B.A. cum laude
> Major: Political Science

Professional Associations and Memberships

Association of the Bar of the City of New York – Member, Committee on Condominium and Cooperative Law, 1994-1995
New York County Lawyers Association – Committee on the Supreme Court, 1985-present