Top Rated Creditor Debtor Rights Attorney in Hackensack, NJ

The founder of Gutfleish Law, Harry M. Gutfleish focuses his practice largely on complex civil litigation and bankruptcy matters. He works out of his firm’s office in Hackensack, New Jersey, providing representation to companies and people throughout Bergen and Passaic counties, and other parts of the state.

Mr. Gutfleish’s business litigation practice has encompassed his representation of both plaintiffs and defendants in cases involving fiduciary duty breaches; disputes between owners, shareholders and partners; professional malpractice; and breach of contract allegations. He has also provided advice and counsel to business owners on entity formation, corporate governance and other matters.

In his bankruptcy practice, Mr. Gutfleish has worked on matters arising under Chapters 7, 11 and 13. In addition to his representation of both debtors and creditors, he has assisted trustees, creditors committees and court-appointed receivers. Mr. Gutfleish’s experience in this area of the law has included preferential transfers, proofs of claims and associated challenges thereto, debt discharge disputes, reorganizations, loan workouts, and dissolutions and liquidations. The overall quality of his work in all of his professional endeavors has earned him the high regard of his colleagues, with one such example being his AV Preeminent* peer review rating through Martindale-Hubbell.

Mr. Gutfleish attended Colgate University and received a Bachelor of Arts cum laude in 1985. He then enrolled at Boston University School of Law, and he was an associate editor of the Boston University Law Review before graduating cum laude with his Juris Doctor in 1988. Admitted to practice in both New Jersey and New York, Mr. Gutfleish is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, and Southern Districts of New York, and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 2nd and 3rd Circuits.

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