David A. Pellegrino is a commercial litigator with a practice emphasis on real estate-related matters. For more than 20 years, Mr. Pellegrino has advised lenders, borrowers, developers, property owners, managing agents, boards, brokers and individuals in both state and federal court on various issues including disputes between joint venturers, lien priorities, financing issues, statutory actions such as foreclosures, partitions and encroachments, and other real estate related litigation.

Mr. Pellegrino has obtained several notable decisions for clients including the leading case involving the duration and priority of real estate liens from New York's highest court.  He is the co-author of the chapter “Commercial Real Estate Litigation” in the critically acclaimed multi-volume treatise Commercial Litigation in New York State Courts, edited by Robert L. Haig. 

Mr. Pellegrino regularly lectures on real estate litigation issues.  He is an active member of the Commercial and Federal Litigation section of the New York Bar Association and its committee on the Civil Practice Law and Rules, which governs litigation in New York State Courts.

Mr. Pellegrino is a graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook and St. John's University School of Law.

Publications:

• Co-Author of the chapter “Commercial Real Estate Litigation” in Commercial Litigation in New York State Courts, edited by Robert L. Haig, and the 2011 update thereto.
• Co-Author, “Expediting Routine Litigation: A Call to Expand CPLR 3213,” published in N.Y. Litigator, November 1995, Vol. 1, No. 2.
• Author, “Comment to Proposed Legislation Involving Expedited Procedures for Commercial Litigation,” presented to Board of Governors for New York State Bar Association, February 1996.
• Author, “Proposed Revisions to CPLR 3213 Considered by New York Legislative,” published by the New York State Bar Association, Commercial and Federal Litigation Section Newsletter, September 1996, Vol. 4, No. 1.

Professional Memberships:

• New York State Bar Association (Committee on Federal and Commercial Litigation)
• Federal Bar Council