Samuel J. Ferrara - Lawyer in Lake Success, NY
Lake Success, NY, 11042
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About the lawyer
Samuel J. Ferrara is an executive partner and Co-director of the Family and Marital Law Department at Abrams Fensterman, LLP.
Mr. Ferrara represents various clients on a range of matrimonial and family law issues, as well as transactional, corporate and commercial matters. He has special experience in controversial custody cases, large-capital cases and commercial transactions.
Mr. Ferrara advises clients at all stages of the divorce and separation process, including custody/parental access disputes and property support/distribution issues. He also helps clients in solving corporate and commercial issues. His experience includes transactional work such as purchase/sale agreements for multimillion-dollar companies and small individual transactions. These include issues such as employment, shareholder and partnership agreements, licensing issues, as well as consultations on real estate and general business/corporate issues. Mr. Ferrara is also well versed in ADR, acting as a mediation consultant as well as a mediator in various disciplines.
A leading lawyer and negotiator, Mr. Ferrara holds a scholarship to the American Academy of Family Lawyers and has been named one of the Ten Leaders in Family Law, and has been appointed a New York City Super Lawyer since 2008, which only five percent of lawyers in the New York Metro area have earned. Mr. Ferrara has been selected by his colleagues to be included in the list of America's Best Lawyers in the field of Family Law since 2015.
Mr. Ferrara presents numerous programs and/or teaches at various professional organizations on parenting, custody, parental access, property distribution, judicial protection, appellate protection and ethics. He is also published in professional journals and newsletters. Mr. Ferrara is an associate professor at Hofstra University.
He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Boston University and his juris doctor degree from Hofstra University Law School. Mr. Ferrara is one of the directors of the Parenting Education and Custody Improvement Program (P.E.A.C.E.), a past member of the Board of Directors of the Nassau County Bar Association, a member of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC), the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association and the Suffolk County Bar Association.
Education
Hofstra University School of Law, Hempstead, New York — J.D.
Boston University — M.A.
Boston University — B.A.
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