Paul D Pearlstein
Practice Areas
* Bankruptcy/Asset Protection
Consumer and Commercial Bankruptcy, financial crisis management and asset protection.
Paul is Certified as a Business Bankruptcy Specialist by the American Board of Certification. He was a Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee for 13 years, and has published several articles and two book chapters pertaining to bankruptcy law. He has lectured on bankruptcy to lawyers, bankers, businessmen and conventioneers. He is experienced in Chapter 11 business reorganizations as well as commercial Chapter 7 liquidations. He also handles consumer Chapter 7's and 13's in the District of Columbia, Virginia, and Maryland. He represents commercial banks and other creditors as well as debtors. He has written and counseled on asset protection. With prior experience in crisis management as a corporate officer, he is attuned to business rescue techniques and non-bankruptcy resolutions of financial problems.
* Real Estate
Commercial and residential transactions and litigation.
Paul is the editor of a practice manual, Real Estate Practice in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia, formerly published by the Bar Association of the District of Columbia. The book has been a best seller for local practitioners since 1995. He is the author of a variety of articles on real estate law and has taught real estate courses to his fellow lawyers, Realtors, and bank officials. He has written or been responsible for the creation of standard real estate forms and contracts sold and used in the area.
A prior attorney with HUD, he has dealt with apartments, condominiums, cooperatives, commercial leases, construction contracts, easements, and a myriad of related disputes. He worked as an Operations Manager, building and marketing low rise and high rise apartments in the 1960's. He has also sold real estate in Virginia and Maryland.
* Probate
Probate, will contests, estate planning, wills, trusts, conservatorships, and guardians.
On behalf of the Council for Court Excellence, Paul worked to reform the Probate Court and lobbied successfully to introduce the Uniform Probate Code and unsupervised probate into the District of Columbia. He has written and lectured in the field and handles estates in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. His articles on Asset Protection and Estate Planning are on this web site.
* Litigation
Trials and Appeals
Paul has experience in cases involving real estate, foreclosures, constititutional issues, clouds on title, fraudulent conveyances, title disputes, leases, arbitribility, ground leases, condominiums, cooperatives, sales contracts, legal ethics, fraud, contracts of all sorts including TV documentaries, divorce, custody, tax liens and serious personal injury.
He began his career with criminal cases and courts martial, and was involved with the defense of three murder cases.
* Non-litigation Dispute Resolution
Arbitration, mediation, and case evaluation.
Paul is active as an arbitrator with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA, the new NASD and NYSE SRO) and was on the American Arbitration Association (AAA) panel of arbitrators for over 30 years. He has mediated at the Superior Court of the District of Columbia for a number of years. He continues to do private mediation and case evaluation. With experience in financial crisis management, he enjoys business workouts and rescue techniques to avoid bankruptcy.
Certified Specialist, Business Bankruptcy - American Board of Certification
Paul D Pearlstein Esq
Attorney at Law
1730 Rhode Island Ave NW #205
Washington DC 20036
Tel: 202 223-5848
Fax: 202 223-8737
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