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e-mail:
rsteinberg@nakblaw.com
Rick A. Steinberg is Counsel to the Firm, where he practices business bankruptcy,
creditors' rights, bankruptcy litigation and commercial litigation. He has represented debtors, trustees,
creditors' committees and secured and unsecured creditors. Mr. Steinberg specializes in the representation of transportation and logistics companies in bankruptcy cases and commercial litigation matters in federal and state court, including representation of ocean vessel container carrier companies and non-vessel owning common carriers. He has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in bankruptcy adversary proceedings and various parties in contested matters in federal bankruptcy courts in the District of New Jersey, the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the District of Delaware and elsewhere across the country. He has also represented various entities in the state courts of New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. Mr. Steinberg also practices commercial and consumer foreclosure law, including contested foreclosures, replevin, deficiency suits and commercial and consumer collections.
Mr. Steinberg is admitted to practice before the bars of the States of New Jersey and New York and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He is also admitted to the United States District Courts for the District of New Jersey, the Southern, Eastern, Northern and Western Districts of New York, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second and Third Circuits and the United States Supreme Court.
Mr. Steinberg is a graduate of Columbia College of Columbia University and Rutgers University School of Law. Following law school, Mr. Steinberg served as a judicial clerk for the Honorable James A.
O'Neill and the Honorable Joseph C. Visalli in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Cape May County.
Mr. Steinberg has also been a contributing editor to New Jersey Forms: Legal and Business, published by Lawyers Cooperative Publishing. He has edited chapters on the New Jersey Construction Lien Law in the Real Property volume and Bank Deposits and Collections in the Uniform Commercial Code volume. Mr. Steinberg is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute and the Commercial Law League of America.
Mr. Steinberg was one of the prevailing attorneys of record in the reported decision In re Fickling, 361 F.3d 172 (2d Cir. 2004), in which a federal appeals court ruled that
attorney's fees and expenses incurred by a debtor during a Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding are dischargeable debts following an involuntary conversion to Chapter 7. He also represented a prevailing party in the reported decision
O'Connell v. Shallo (In re: Die Fliedermaus LLC, d/b/a Le Bar Bat, 323 B.R. 101 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2005), which involved important issues regarding the New York Limited Liability Company Law.
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