Douglas F. Wasser, a founding partner of Wasser & Russ, LLP, is an AV rated business and real estate attorney with quality experience in commercial real estate, commercial, corporate, mortgage lending, hotel, banking, estate and trust, co-op and condo, litigation and other business areas of law.

Mr. Wasser represents parties who may be: buying, selling and operating properties; leasing or subleasing office space in Class A buildings in Manhattan and elsewhere in the country; leasing or subleasing retail space; buying or selling businesses; net leasing buildings; purchasing or selling hotels or conducting business as a hotel franchisee; obtaining or refinancing commercial mortgage debt; buying or selling restaurants, resolving labor and employment issues; organizing or restructuring businesses; transferring wealth earned over a lifetime to the next generation; engaged in probate and estate litigation and administration, and reclaiming funds taken from businesses by fraud.

Mr. Wasser graduated from Queens College of the City University of New York with a B.A. in 1977, where he was elected to Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges for several consecutive years, and from the State University of New York at Buffalo with a Juris Doctorate in 1980. Mr. Wasser was admitted to the New York Bar in March, 1981. Prior to founding Wasser & Russ, LLP, Mr. Wasser spent over 23 years with and was a partner in the Manhattan law firm of Felcher Fox & Litner, P.C.

Mr. Wasser appears frequently as a quoted source in major print and on-line media on emerging developments in real estate law, including the following references:

NEW YORK TIMES:

(1) October 31, 2004, Your Home - How to Abandon An Underground Tank;(2) March 14, 2004, Q&A - A Condo Fee for an Open House; (3) December 1, 2002, Your Home - Tax Breaks For Owners Of Co-ops; (4) October 21, 2001, Q&A - Condo Owner With 20 Apartments; (5) March 18, 2001, Q&A - A Building Going Up Next Door; (6) July 30, 2000, Your Home - Warranties For New Houses; (7) June 18, 2000, Q&A - Rules on Taking a Roommate; (8) June 20, 1999, Q&A; (9) February 2, 1999, Your Home - Disposing of a Paid Up Mortgage; (10) March 29, 1998, Your Home - Buying a House in Foreclosure; (11) December 14, 1997, Your Home - Homeowner Tax Cuts in New York; (14) November 2, 1997, Mortgage Recording Taxes; (15) December 15, 1996, Q&A; (16) October 6, 1996, Q&A; (17) April 28, 1996, Your Home - Lowering Taxes on a Mortgage; (18) August 14, 2005, Q & A - Passing Along Tax Credits in a Co-op.

NEW YORK TIMES WEBSITE:

(1) Mortgage Q & A, April 10, 2007 - Does a Mortgage Tax Apply to a Refinancing?; (2) Mortgage Q & A, July 3, 2007 - Reducing a Mortgage Tax; (3) Mortgage Q & A, July 31, 2007 - The Complexities of Recording Taxes; (4) Mortgage Q & A, September 11, 2007 - Mortgage Taxes and Lines of Credit; (5) Real Estate Q & A, September 5, 2008 - Paying a Mortgage Tax on Home Refinancings (6) Real Estate Q & A, January 14, 2009 - Does a Mortgage Tax Apply in a Refinancing.

HABITAT MAGAZINE: March-April 2006 - A Failure to Communicate

NEWSDAY: May 3, 1996 - Saving With Assigned Mortgages

NEW YORK LAW JOURNAL:

Marketplace - August 17, 2007; Realty Law Digest, February 4, 2009 - Motel in the Sky v. Wald.

Current Employment Position:
Co-Founding Partner, Wasser & Russ, LLP

Past Employment:
Felcher Fox & Litner, P.C., Partner, 1983-2006
Steinberg & Siegel, Associate , 1982-1983
Traub & Lesser, Associate , 1981-1982

Primary Areas of Practice:
Real Estate (Commercial and Residential)
Business
Estate and Trust
Corporate
Litigation

Bar Admissions:
New York , 1981

Education:
State University of New York , Buffalo School of Law, Buffalo , New York , 1980/J.D.
Queens College of the City University of New York, New York, New York, 1977/B.A.
    Honors: Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities

Ancillary Interests:
Sunday Religious School Teacher