Daniels Norelli Cecere & Tavel P.C.

Experienced Lawyers with Client Focus

Our wide-ranging capabilities extend to all areas of commercial real estate and business industries as well as individual concerns such as estate preparation and traffic infractions. DNCT offers its clients the stability of experienced representation in all aspects commercial business and real estate litigation including partnership disputes, mortgage foreclosures, insurance disputes, cooperative and condominium representation, rent regulation issues, landlord-tenant disputes as well as individual issues including estate planning and litigation. At the trial court level, DNCT represents clients before City, State and Federal courts in all types of civil litigation. Our attorneys have not only successfully litigated cases at the trial level, but also on appeal to the highest court in the state of New York. As a result of our appellate experience, some of our clients who are already at the appellate level have retained us to perfect their appeals after being unsuccessful at the trial level.

DNCT also successfully represents clients in administrative proceedings before New York State Division of Homes and Community Renewal (DHCR), New York City Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), New York City Environmental Control Board (ECB), New York City Division of Human Rights (DHR) and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). These administrative proceedings include rent regulatory issues such as rent overcharges and Fair Market Rent Appeals, as well as housing discrimination issues and housing code violations.

DNCT represents many cooperative and condominium boards providing management advice and legal support on issues including collection of maintenance/common charges, negotiating and litigating outside vendor contracts and amending governing organizational documentation such as bylaws and proprietary leases. We also work closely with management companies to insure that the board is given the best counsel on all business decisions taking into consideration tax consequences and strategies.

Finally, DNCT successfully represents its clients outside the courtroom handling all matters of real estate transactions including the negotiation and preparation of commercial contracts of sale and leases. Our litigation experience gives us a unique perspective as to how the courts are dealing with often litigated contract and lease clauses.

Client Focus

Our team of lawyers get to know our clients and their unique needs, interests and objectives so that we are aware of not only legal ramifications of an issue, but also the financial consequences. That is because our eye is not just on litigating but on problem-solving. While our attorneys are aggressive litigators, we understand that our clients best interests can more often be achieved through settlement. Indeed, our litigation experience gives us the ability to understand and weight the risks of going to trial so that the terms of a successful settlement can be more accurately measured.

As a result of our wide-ranging capabilities, DNCT can work with clients in the planning and negotiation stages of a project, through any litigation or administrative proceeding that may result and on any appeal that may ensue. As such, we can guide our clients throughout a business venture, transaction or dispute giving our clients the continuity of stable quality legal services from beginning to end.

Local Knowledge

DNCT has a daily presence in the NYC courts as well as the courts on Long Island. As such, we are intimately familiar with the local procedures employed in each of the courts and the unique requirements of particular local courts and governing agencies. Not only do procedures differ between the City and Long Island courts, but indeed, the housing laws that uniquely govern in NYC differ from the housing laws that govern on Long Island. Because we practice both in the City and on Long Island on a regular basis, we know these differences and can best represent clients with divergent interests across city and county lines.

Locations	No. of Attorneys
Hicksville, NY	20
Rego Park, NY	5

Practice Areas	No. of Attorneys
Government and Government Relations	2
Litigation - Construction	5
Litigation - Real Estate	4
Real Estate	8