Michael Stewart Frankel

About

I am a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, 2015,2016 Multi Million Dollar Advocates Forum,2015, 2016, and Best Attorneys of America 2016. I have been the attorney of record on precedent setting and reported cases and the following is a partial list;  including:
Juarez v. Wavecrest Mgt. Team, Ltd., 212 AD2d 38 (1st Dept 1995), rev’d88 NY2d 628 (1996) Cortes v. Riverbridge Realty Co., 227 AD2d 430 (2d Dept 1996) Juarez v. Wavecrest Mgt. Team, Ltd., 88 NY2d 628 (1996) Public Service Mutual Insurance Co. v. Ayfas Realty Corp., 234 AD2d 226 (1st Dept 1996), lv. dism90 NY2d 844 (1997) Nwaru v. Leeds Mgt. Co., 236 AD2d 252 (1st Dept 1997) Needleman v. Burger King, Inc., 237 AD2d 339 (2d Dept 1997) Calderone v. Levites Realty Mgt. Corp., 246 AD2d 458 (1st Dept 1998) Pena v. Classic Realty Mgt. Corp., 247 AD2d 215 (1st Dept 1998) Kelly v. New York City Housing Auth., 248 AD2d 594 (2d Dept 1998) Lopez v. No Kit Realty Corp., 254 AD2d 155 (1st Dept1998) Cartegena v. Tang, 260 AD2d 337 (2d Dept 1999) Rubinfeld v. City of New York, 263 AD2d 448 (2d Dept 1999), lv. den. 94 NY2d 752 (1999) Santiago v. New York City Housing Auth., 268 AD2d 203 (1st Dept 2000). Vargas v. Menorah Realty Corp., 274 AD2d 428 (2d Dept 2000) Rosa v. Colonial Transit, Inc., 276 AD2d 781 (2d Dept 2000) Tejeda v. 116 West Corp., 293 AD2d 261 (1st Dept 2002) Zaman v Patwary, 295 AD2d 424 (2d Dept 2002) Thomas v. Holzberg, 300 AD2d 10 (1st Dept 2002) Vasquez v. Prevosto, 300 AD2d 299 (2d Dept 2002) Munoz v. Puretz, 301 AD2d 382 (1st Dept 2003) Perez v. New York City Housing Auth., 304 AD2d 736 (2d Dept 2003) Frankel v. Hirsch, 2 AD3d 399 (2d Dept 2003) Bligen v. Markland Estates, Inc., 6 AD3d 371 (2d Dept 2004) Schmiemann v. State Farm Fire and Cas. Co., 13 AD3d 514 (2d Dept 2004) Vega v. SSA Properties, Inc., 13 AD3d 298 (1st Dept 2004) Frankel v. Hirsch, 15 AD3d 438 (2d Dept 2005) Gluck v. Fantastic, Inc., 25 AD3d 651 (2d Dept 2006) Frankel v. Kitchen Plus Products (Case Settled Prior to Decision-Appeal Withdrawn) Allcity Insurance Co. v. Fisch, 32 AD3d 407 (2d Dept 2006) Velez v. South Nine Realty Corp., 32 AD3d 1017 (2d Dept 2006) Robles v. City of New York, 12 Misc3d 147(A) (App Tm 1st Dept 2006) Frankel v. Hirsch, 38 AD3d 712 (2d Dept 2007) Frankel v. Stavsky, 40 AD3d 918 (2d Dept 2007) Velez v. South Nine Realty Corp., 57 AD3d 889 (2d Dept 2008) Polanco v. Creston Avenue Props.,84 AD3d 1337 (2011) Trawally v East Clarke Realty, 92 AD3d 471 (2012) Arias v. New York City Housing Auth., 112 AD3d 439 (1st Dept 2013) Rivera v. Neighborhood Partnership, 116 AD3d 633 (1st Dept 2014) Lambert v. Estren, 126 AD3d 942 (2d Dept 2015)
Javeed v. 3619 Realty Corp., 129 AD3d 1029 (2d Dept 2015)homas v. Holzberg, 227 AD2d 175 (1st Dept 1996)
I have extensive litigation experience.
I was associate counsel at the New York State Bill Drafting Commission from 1978-1981 where I drafted legislation for the New York State Assembly and Senate.
I was a bankruptcy partner at Kreines Simon and Fisch with a focus on Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 practice.
I was a partner at Frankel and Eidman in New York.
I have taught business law at Touro College in New York. Lectures covered multiple areas of law including contracts, legal and equitable remedies under the law, tort issues, and creditor rights.
I am a trial lawyer with extensive litigation experience.
I have succesfully litigated numerous lead poisoning and other very serious personal injury cases for over 35 years.