As a senior associate in the firm’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice group, Mr. Kanfer handles a broad range of complex commercial matters from specialized securities issues to intricate real estate-related disputes. He plays an integral role in devising and implementing the litigation and dispute resolution strategy to protect the interests of the firm’s clients, including Fortune 500 companies, real estate developers, hedge funds and other major financial institutions.  Toward that end, Mr. Kanfer has second chaired both bench and jury trials, he has conducted mediations, taken and defended depositions and argued summary judgment and other substantive and procedural motions before the courts of the State of New York and the Federal Courts that comprise the Second Circuit. Most recently, Mr. Kanfer substantially contributed to the drafting and analysis of the real estate litigation chapter set forth in the latest edition of the critically acclaimed multi-volume treatise, Commercial Litigation in New York State Courts, edited by Robert L. Haig.

Mr. Kanfer is a graduate of Union College and Brooklyn Law School.  At Brooklyn Law, Mr. Kanfer was an Executive Board Member of the Moot Court Honor Society.  There he organized and coordinated the Dean Jerome Prince National Evidence Moot Court Competition.

Publications:

Contributor, Chapter 103 "Commercial Real Estate Litigation" 4C Robert L. Haig, Commercial Litigation in New York Courts [3d ed. 2010]

Coauthor, “Time is Money: Contractual Treatments of Delay Damages,” New York Law Journal, (August 29, 2007)

Coauthor, “Protecting Employees’ Constitutional Rights in Governmental Investigations: The U.S. v. Stein Decisions,” NY Litigator, Vol. 12, No. 1, 47-48 (Spring 2007)

Contributor, “Do Unto Others: Be Wary of Violating Employment Contracts,” American Staffing Association Staffing Success Magazine (March/April 2003)