SCOTT L. LANIN, ATTORNEY

Practice Description

Commercial Litigation, Bankruptcy, Business, Foreclosure and Collection/Creditor’s Rights Law

Bar Admissions & Courts

New York State

US District Court and US Bankruptcy Court for SDNY, EDNY, NDNY and WDNY

Pro hac vice appearances in CT, DE, FL, OR, IL, MI, and NJ

Education & Honors

St. John’s University School Of Law, J.D. 1989

Law Review; Top 12.5%; Dean’s List; American Jurisprudence Award – Lawyer as Negotiator; John J. Murphy Memorial Scholarship; Faculty Research Assistant.

New York University Stern School Of Business, B.S. 1986
Finance and Management

Cum laude; Top 5%; GPA 3.64/4.0; Dean’s List; University Founders’ Day Scholar; Beta Gamma Sigma (Management Honor Society); Phi Alpha Kappa (Finance Honor Society).

Professional Affiliations

Assistant Taekwon-Do/Kickboxing Instructor, Team USA Taekwon-Do Fitness, Fort Lee, NJ

Business Networking International  - Vice President BNI-3 (Times Square, NY)

Director and Vice President 1266 Apartment Corporation (Horizon House: http://www.horizon-house.com): co-operative corporation with over $100 million in assets, 6 hi-rises, 1266 units, 32 acres and 115 employees  (2002-2005)

Member of Allexpert.com Creditor and Bankruptcy categories (formerly expertcentral.com):

see Scott’s allexpert.com profile and rank (1999-2000)

American Bankruptcy Institute(2002-2006)

Bankruptcy Lawyers Network

Commercial Law League of America: Bankruptcy & Insolvency Committee; Creditors’ Rights Committee; and Contributing Author – Bankruptcy & Insolvency Newsletter (1996-2001)

National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys – nation’s largest organization and network of consumer bankruptcy attorneys helping individuals resolve debt problems and save their assets and homes

Eastern Association of Equipment Lessors (1996-2001)

Judge, Civil Trial Institute St. John’s University School of Law School (1996)

Turnaround Management Association, Long Island Chapter (1996-2001)

New York State Bar Association, Commercial and Federal Litigation Section; and Real Property Section

American Bar Association: Litigation Section: Bankruptcy and Insolvency Committee, Commercial and Banking Litigation Committee, and Trial Practice Committee; Business Law Section; and Law Practice Management Section (1990-2007)

Nassau County Bar Association: Bankruptcy Committee; and Homeless Advocacy Program (1991-1997)

Bankruptcy Lawyers Bar Association of the City of New York (1990-1993)

International Executive Guild

International Whos Who

Publications

NY Business & Real Estate Litigator Blog (www.nybusinesslitigator.com) – The Martial Art of Commercial Litigation

NY Foreclosure Law Blog (www.nyforeclosurelaw.com) – Solutions and Strategies for Mortgage Defaults

New York Recognizes Exception to Waiver of Attorney – Client Privilege, 62 St. John’s Law Review 752 (1988)

Pre-Printed Invoice Terms, Course Of Dealing, And Possession Of Goods Did Not Give Creditor A Security Interest Under Articles 2 Or 9 Of The UCC, Commercial Law League Association, Bankruptcy and Insolvency Section Newsletter, Vol. 13, Issue 10, pp.1-4 (April 1999)

Background and Experience

          Scott Lanin has a business background that he finds useful in his legal practice. He entered NYU’s Stern School of Business in 1982 at the young age of 16 and graduated with honors at the top of his class with a dual major in Finance and Management.  He attended St. John’s University School of Law from 1986 through 1989 where he earned Law Review honors and graduated at the top of his class.  Scott began his legal practice in 1989 in the Park Avenue office of the corporate department of Whitman & Ransom, a prestigious international law firm (now known as Whitman Breed Abbot & Morgan). Scott was formerly an associate attorney handling commercial litigation, creditor rights, and mortgage foreclosures with Farrell Fritz, a premier Long Island law firm. He was also associated with other boutique firms in Manhattan and in Garden City bankruptcy firm and and a Chapter 13 trustee.

          Scott is the managing attorney and founding principal of Lanin Law P.C., a firm that traces its roots back to 1999.  The firm has moved over the years from the Lincoln Building, One Grand Central Place, NY, NY (across from Grand Central Station), to 1065 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY (across from Bryant Park), and now to 505 Eighth Avenue, NY, NY (one block from Penn Station), always maintaining a Midtown Manhattan presence under Scott’s leadership.

          Scott has extensive experience representing indiviuals and businesses, including lenders and borrowers, mortgagees and mortgagors, corporations, and trustees in commercial (business and real estate) litigation and in cases involving debt collection, replevin, asset recovery, orders of seizure (equipment and vehicle leases), mortgage foreclosure and receivership, contract and real estate disputes, Chapters 7, 13, and 11, and a wide variety of creditor rights and bankruptcy matters, including adversary proceedings and motions.  Scott also gained extensive experience in the areas of real estate and co-ops as the First Vice President of the Board of Directors of 1266 Apartment Corporation, the largest co-op in New Jersey, where he was responsible for 6 hi-rise buildings, 32 acres of property and over 114 employees.

          On a personal note, Scott is married to Lisa Lanin, and is the proud father of Samantha and Jessica.   He also holds second degree black belts in Karate and in Tae Kwon Do and is a kickboxing instructor.   He has been training since 1984 and teaching since 1987 and finds martial arts philosophy and concepts useful in his law practice.  Scott  is also an accomplished guitarist and enjoys recording music in his home digital recording studio.  He is also a member of the International Diabetic Athletes Association, the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, and the American Diabetes Association, having been a juvenile diabetic since age 12.  He was the Athletic Director of the New York Diabetes Association summer camp in upstate New York and is a frequent public speaker on diabetes and exercise.  He has never allowed diabetes to prevent him from doing anything.