Mr. Higgins represents a wide range of individuals, corporations, partnerships, and investment entities in state and federal litigation of all sorts, including disputes involving contracts, business torts, fraud and fraudulent conveyances, intellectual property, probate disputes, and statutory violations.
Mr. Higgins' real estate litigation practice involves the representation of owners, property managers, lessees, coop and condominium boards, construction companies, brokers, and architects in real estate and landlord-tenant litigation, mortgage foreclosures, summary eviction proceedings, common charge lien foreclosures, brokerage disputes, director and officer liability actions, lien law and construction disputes, and plenary actions for breach of lease. Mr. Higgins also represents parties in real estate transactions such as leases, sales, purchases, and easements.
Mr. Higgins' intellectual property practice involves litigation over trademarks and copyrights, as well as the representation of authors in negotiations of literary contracts.
Mr. Higgins has written, or been quoted in, numerous articles concerning real estate matters, particularly in the Habitat Magazine's Co-op & Condo Case Law Tracker Digest and the Real Estate Section of The New York Times. Click here.
Mr. Higgins is AV-Rated by Martindale-Hubbell.
Areas of Practice
Commercial Litigation
Real Estate
Intellectual Property
Education
University of California Law-San Francisco, J.D., 1988
San Francisco, California
Vassar College, A.B., 1984
Poughkeepsie, New York
Professional Memberships
New York City Bar Association, Member, Committee on Cooperative & Condominium Law, 2017 to present
New York City Bar Association, Member, Committee on Trademarks & Unfair Competition, 1990-1993
Bar Admissions
State of New York
State of New Jersey
Articles & Publications
Member, Advisory Panel, Habitat Magazine's Co-op & Condo Case Law Tracker Digest, 2021 to present
"Condominium Foreclosures: Taking the First Steps Against Unit Owners," New York Law Journal, June 24, 2015
"Addressing Short-Term Rentals by Co-op Shareholders," New York Law Journal, May 8, 2015
"Collecting Rent from Condo Owner's Tenant for Unpaid Common Charges," New York Law Journal, March 16, 2015
Continuing Legal Education
Faculty Presenter, "Seeking Unpaid Maintenance During the Pandemic," Hot Topics Affecting Cooperatives & Condominiums, New York City Bar Association, April 14, 2021