Paul A. Batista

Foreclosure, Mediation
950 Third Avenue, Suite 3200
New York, New York 10022


Foreclosure

Admitted

1975, New York, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit

Law School

Cornell University, J.D., 1974

Law School Graduation Year

1974

College

Bowdoin College, A.B., magna cum laude, 1970

Memberships

The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Moderator, Panels on Federal Pre-Trial Discovery, 1982, 1984 and 1985).

Biographical

Phi Beta Kappa. Guest Commentator, Court TV, 1996—. Author: Civil RICO Practice Manual, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997; Defending Corporate Criminal Cases, The New York Times, Op-Ed Page, January 11, 1988; RICO and the Courts, Editorial Page, The Wall Street Journal, March, 1985; Defenses to RICO, The National Law Journal, Pg. 15, June 8, 1987; The SEC on Trial: New Restraints on Injunctions, The New York Law Journal, pg. 1, March 25, 1985; Confronting Foreign Blocking Legislation: A Guide to Securing Disclosure from Non-Resident Parties to American Litigation, 17 The International Lawyer 61, 1983; U.S. Law vs. Europe's, The New York Times, Op-Ed Page, October, 1982; Counsel Fees in Derivative Litigation, 11 Securities Regulation Law Journal 153, 1983; The Uses and Misuses of RICO in Civil Litigation, 8 Delaware Journal of Corporate Law 181, 1983; Federal Discovery Reform: A Symposium, 57 St. John's Law Review 671, 1983; New Disciplines in an Old Game: Financial Sanctions on Lawyers for Discovery Abuse, The New York Law Journal, Pg. 1, August, 1982; Yellowstone Revisited: Injunctions in Real Estate Litigation, The New York Law Journal, Pg. 1, December 29, 1983; Yellowstone Revisited II, The New York Law Journal, Pg. 1, August 22, 1984; Federal Discovery, 10 Litigation 34, 1984; Injunctions in Commercial Litigation, 56 New York State Bar Journal No. 8, December, 1984. Participant, Annual Judicial Conference for the Second Circuit, 1983-1984. Member, Discovery Committee of the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 1983-1988.

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