What We Do Best

Litigation is often an inevitable and unavoidable reality of any business. Scarda & Associates, P.C. understands how litigation affects your bottom line and offers cost-effective representation to let you get back to doing what you do best – running your business.

Our team of litigators is experienced handling all aspects of litigation, from due diligence and alternative dispute resolution through trial and appeal.

Scarda & Associates combines a lifetime of experience with cutting edge legal strategies and creativity to offer industry leading representation.

Sample Representations

• Breach of Contract
• Fraudulent Inducement / Fraudulent Misrepresentation
• Partnership Formation and Dissolution
• Professional Liability

Scarda & Associates, P.C. lives and breathes real estate. Our team of attorneys has received industry recognition and awards and is trusted to handle disputes ranging from simple down payment disputes to reformations of secured commercial notes. Whether your goal is to maximize your bottom line or protect your property rights, Scarda & Associates is intimately familiar with the complexity and constant evolution of real estate law.

Sample Representations

• Down Payment Disputes
• Breach of Contract
• Commercial Landlord-Tenant Litigation
• Specific Performance
• Title Disputes
• Trespass
• Easements
• Partitions
• Quiet Title
• Ancient Mortgages
• Foreclosure / Short Sale / Deed-in-Lieu
• Environmental
• Land Use
• ADA / Discrimination

Whether litigating a commission dispute, auditing contracts and forms for regulatory compliance, or appearing in front of local NAR boards or the Department of State, Scarda & Associates has your brokerage needs covered.

Sample Representations

• Regulatory Compliance
• Listing Agreements and Forms
• Commission Disputes
• NAR/LIBOR/HANFRA/HGAR Ethics Complaints
• NAR/LIBOR/HANFRA/HGAR Arbitrations
• Department of State Complaints
• Department of State Administrative Law Hearings
• Professional Liability – Breach of Fiduciary Duty and Negligence

When buying or selling commercial real estate, a team of experienced attorneys is needed to anticipate and protect against unknown risks. When everything is negotiable, everything has the potential to turn profit into loss. Scarda & Associates, P.C.’s team of attorneys is trusted to handle the most complex commercial real estate transactions and has the combined knowledge to help navigate yours.

Sample Representations

• Acquisition and Disposition
• Leasing
• Development
• Land Use
• Zoning

Residential purchasers and sellers are often unfamiliar with the legal process, having never dealt with an attorney before or having only bought or sold a handful of homes over the course of a lifetime. Scarda & Associates, P.C.’s team offers the same level of proficient representation to its residential clients as it does to its commercial clients, while ensuring that its clients understand and are comfortable with all phases of their transaction.

Purchasing or selling a home is one of the most important events in any person’s life. Scarda & Associates is here to make sure your dream does not become a nightmare.

Whether a piece of a conglomerate’s portfolio or the first step in a small business owner’s path toward the American Dream, buying and selling a business is a complex process fraught with pitfalls and dangers. Scarda & Associates, P.C.’s team of attorneys is experienced evaluating and executing on the acquisition and disposition of businesses and related transactions.

Sample Representations

• Assignment and Assumption of Leases
• Acquisition and Disposition of NNN Properties
• Stock Sales
• Asset Purchases
• Non-Disclosure Agreements
• Joint Ventures
• Operating Agreements
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Dissolutions

Scarda & Associates, P.C.’s attorneys are experienced representing both lenders and borrowers in all manner of financial transactions, ranging from simple secured notes to mezzanine financing. Trust Scarda & Associates’ knowledge and experience to bring your transaction to the closing table.

Sample Representations

• Acquisition Loans
• Refinance
• Construction Loans
• Mezzanine Financing
• CEMAs
• Assignment and Assumption of Loans
• Title Review

Representing victims of negligence requires a team of caring, compassionate, and fierce litigators. Scarda & Associates, P.C. is experienced handling all manner of personal injury claims, ranging from trip and fall to wrongful death. Proven trial success is the key to obtaining just compensation. Our attorneys believe in the power of a jury trial and are willing to push through to verdict when insurance companies won’t settle.

Schedule a free consultation to learn how Scarda & Associates turns proven success in complex commercial litigation to aggressive and detail-oriented representation for its personal injury clients.

Sample Representations

• Trip and Fall
• Motor Vehicle Accidents
• Wrongful Death
• Product Liability
• Medical Malpractice
• Premises Liability

Scarda & Associates, P.C.’s team of litigators has appeared and argued in the Court of Appeals, the Appellate Division, and the Appellate Term. Whether representing its own clients, or clients of other trial attorneys, our appellate attorneys are skilled in reducing convoluted records into simple and effective legal arguments.