Michael J. Catalfimo
Rowlands, LeBrou & Griesmer, PLLC
Michael J. Catalfimo represents a diverse group of businesses and individuals in complex civil litigation and transactional matters involving Real Property Law, Creditors Rights, Business Law, Family Law, Trusts and Estates Law, and Municipal Law. He is a Partner in the law firm of Rowlands, LeBrou & Griesmer, PLLC.
Mr. Catalfimo received his Juris Doctor Degree (Magna Cum Laude) from Boston College Law School in 1985, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif National Legal Honor Society and received the Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Medal For Excellence in Advocacy and Outstanding Trial Advocacy. He earned his undergraduate degree (Bachelor of Arts with All College Honors) in Government from Skidmore College in 1982. While at Skidmore, he was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society and the Periclean Honor Society.
Mr. Catalfimo is admitted to the Bars of the State, Federal and Bankruptcy Courts of New York and Massachusetts. He is an active member of numerous professional associations, including the American and New York State Bar Associations, the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, the American Bankruptcy Institute and the American Legal and Financial Network.
Mr. Catalfimo is a past Chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Legal and Financial Network, the largest network of mortgage loan servicing attorneys and professionals in the country. He is also the past president of both the Washington County Bar Association and the Federation of Bar Associations of the Fourth Judicial District, and is a former adjunct professor of business law at Skidmore College.
- Boston College Law School
- J.D. (1985)
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- Honors: Elected to the Order of the Coif National Legal Honor Society
- Activities: Vice-Chairman, Board of Student Advisors 1985 National Mock Trial Competition Region I Championship Team Member and recipient of Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Medal for Excellence in Advocacy and Outstanding Trial Advocacy
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- Skidmore College
- B.A. | Government & Music
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- Honors: Elected to Periclean Honor Society and Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society
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- Partner
- Rowlands, LeBrou & Griesmer, PLLC
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- Involved in all areas of general practice, including real estate, trusts and estates, creditor’s rights, domestic relations, personal injury, commercial law, municipal law, zoning and planning, health care law, and trial practice. In charge of creditor’s rights, municipal law and family law practice groups.
- Managing Director, Chief Operating Officer
- Carter, Conboy, Case, Blackmore, Maloney & Laird, P.C.
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- Director & Shareholder
- Carter, Conboy, Case, Blackmore, Maloney & Laird, P.C.
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- Involved in all areas of general practice, including real estate, trusts and estates, creditor’s rights, domestic relations, personal injury, commercial law, municipal law, zoning and planning, health care law, and trial practice. In charge of creditor’s rights, municipal law and family law practice groups.
- Partner
- Catalfimo & Catalfimo, LLP
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- Involved in all areas of general practice, including real estate, trusts and estates, creditor’s rights, domestic relations, personal injury, commercial law, municipal law, zoning and planning, health care law, environmental law, criminal law and trial practice. In charge of litigation, health care, creditor’s rights and family law practices.
- Partner
- Catalfimo & Bulger
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- Involved in all areas of general practice, including real estate, trusts and estates, domestic relations, personal injury, commercial law, municipal law, zoning and planning, environmental law, criminal law and trial practice. In charge of litigation and family law departments.
- Associate
- Law Offices of James A. Catalfimo
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- Associate Counsel. Involved in all areas of general practice, including real estate, trusts and estates, domestic relations, personal injury, commercial law, municipal law, criminal law and trial practice.
- How to Deal With Troubled Real Estate Loans
- National Business Institute
- Pressing Issues Facing Law Firm Leaders - A Roundtable Discussion
- Law Practice Today, American Bar Association
- Advanced Foreclosure Issues and Foreclosure Ethics
- National Business Institute
- Dealing With Unwritten Title Transfers
- National Business Institute
- Foreclosure: Step-ByStep Through the Procedures
- National Business Institute
- Ethics & Corporate Responsibility, ALFN ANSWERS - 2019, Lake Tahoe, California
- American Legal and Financial Network (ALFN)
- Mortgage Foreclosure Fundamentals, 2019 Real Estate Update, Queensbury Hotel, Glens Falls, New York
- Warren County Bar Association/Chicago Title Insurance Company
- Ethics in Foreclosure & Bankruptcy Practice, ALFN ANSWERS - 2018, Santa Barbara, California
- American Legal and Financial Network (ALFN)
- Quiet Title Actions and Drafting Title Documents to Cure Title Defects, Title Law: A - Z, Albany, New YOrk
- National Business Institute
- Reducing Controllable Delays in Mortgage Foreclosure Actions, ALFN Intersect - 2017, Dallas, Texas
- American Legal and Financial Network (ALFN)
- Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Medal for Excellence in Advocacy
- American College of Trial Lawyers
- Saratoga County Bar Association
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- Washington County Bar Association
- Chairman, Continuing Legal Eduction Committee
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- Americal Legal and Financial Network (ALFN)
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- Federation of Bar Associations, Fourth Judicial District
- Officer & Director
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- American Bankruptcy Institute
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- New York State Bar Association # 2036903
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- Activities: Member of Business Law, Family Law, General Practice, Municipal Law, Trial Lawyers and Trusts & Estates sections.
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- American Bar Association
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- Activities: Member of Business Law, General Practice, Law Practice Management, State & Local Government Law, Real Property, Probate and Trust Law and Family Law sections.
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- Washington County Bar Association
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- ALFA International
- Business Litigation Practice Group Steering Committee Member
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- American Legal and Financial Network (ALFN)
- Chairman, Board of Directors
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- American Legal and Financial Network (ALFN)
- Director
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- Federation of Bar Associations, Fourth Judicial District
- President
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- Mary McClellan Hospital Board of Directors
- Director
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- Washington County Bar Association
- President
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- Skidmore College
- Adjunct Professor, Business Law
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- Massachusetts
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- New York
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- United States District Court, D. Mass.
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- United States District Court, E.D.N.Y.
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- United States District Court, N.D.N.Y.
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- United States District Court, S.D.N.Y.
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- United States District Court, W.D.N.Y.
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- Free Consultation
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- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Divorce
- Collaborative Law, Contested Divorce, Military Divorce, Property Division, Same Sex Divorce, Spousal Support & Alimony, Uncontested Divorce
- Estate Planning
- Guardianship & Conservatorship Estate Administration, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
- Real Estate Law
- Commercial Real Estate, Condominiums, Easements, Eminent Domain, Homeowners Association, Land Use & Zoning, Mortgages, Neighbor Disputes, Residential Real Estate, Water Law
- Creditors Rights
- General Civil Litigation
- Real Property Litigation
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