Background
Grunstein, Leonard was born on July 18, 1952 in Milwaukee. Son of Morris and Ida (Gutheric) Grunstein.
Grunstein, Leonard was born on July 18, 1952 in Milwaukee. Son of Morris and Ida (Gutheric) Grunstein.
Queens College of the City University of New York (Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, 1972). Brooklyn Law School (Juris Doctor, 1975).
Worked at Herrick, Feinstein LLP (New York, NY) specializing in LITIGATION: Commercial, Product Liability Defense, White Collar Defense, Art, Business Divorce and Bankruptcy Law. REAL ESTATE: Development, Financing, Securitization, Workouts and Foreclosures, Syndication, Land Use, Zoning, Environmental, Cooperative and Condominium Law. BUSINESS: Planning, Partnership, Corporate, Securities, Banking, Institutional Financing, International, Tax, Sports and Television Law.
ESTATES AND TRUSTS.
Admitted to the bar, 1976, New York. 1978, United States. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and United States. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
Phi Beta Kappa. Adjunct Associate Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 1985. Director, New York Federal Savings Bank, 1989. Assistant Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, Housing and Real Estate, 1977-1978.
Counsel to the Mayor's Midtown Office of Development, 1978. Member: New York State and American Bar Associations. Founded in 1928, Herrick, Feinstein is a unique blend of legal talent and creative energy.
The firm is small enough to render the most personalized service, yet because it is so focused it can handle the most sophisticated transactions and the most complex litigation in those areas in which it concentrates. The firm is distinguished from others by (i) its ability to create practical and imaginative business solutions to complex legal problems as a result of the partners' own varied business experiences, (ii) its willingness to staff matters so as to effect cost savings for its clients and (iii) its close knit atmosphere, engendered by the mutual respect with which its attorneys treat one another.
Board of directors RJJ School, New York City, 1987-1989, Jewish Foundation School, S.I., 1985-1988. Member American Bar Association, New York State Bar Association Beta Kappa.
Married Chana Tambor, September 30, 1973. Children: Eli, Michal, Rachel.
