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Michele Peters
I am Michele Peters, a real estate and business attorney now an arbitrator / mediator for the Courts of Oregon
Attorney, Michele Peters, is admitted to practice law in the State and Federal Courts of New York and New Jersey. Michele Peters' work representing the purchasers in a complex real estate transaction was awarded Third Place recognition in the Real Estate Board of New York's (REBNY) Deal of the Year Awards 2011. Michele Peters came to the practice of law later in life after prior successful careers in real estate brokerage, entertainment, and teaching. She is a graduate of New York Law School and Syracuse University. Upon graduating law school, she immediately began work at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson NY as an associate in their corporate restructuring department. She went on to providing counsel to residential cooperative boards of directors in landlord / tenant matters; property management; general business law; discrimination suits; as well as performing residential and commercial real estate transactional matters. Moving from the law firm milieu, she took position as in-house Counsel and Director of Sales and New Project Development for Manhattan's largest independently owned real estate firm, Manhattan Apartments, Inc., prior to opening her own company in 2005. Among her large housing projects which involved the coordination of numerous government agencies, are the Hamilton (cooperative) and the Langston (condominium), both built in NY on West 145th Street.Michele Peters' work as in-house Counsel, covered a myriad of matters including discrimination defense (notably, Michael Halpert v. Manhattan Apartments, Inc.), general employment and labor law, as well as marketing and directing the sales training of the approximately 250 sales agents.Her skills as a negotiator have been among her strongest assets to achieving her clients' goals. With over 25 years experience in real estate, her work as the on-site Sales Director for the Corcoran Group on the MacArthur Associates workout sales effort with Chase Manhattan Bank in the late 1980's, fueled her desire to learn more about bankruptcy and the power of negotiating work-out settlements. She has been engaged to offer counsel to housing communities in Manhattan regarding buy-outs and tenant/landlord matters for large developments such as the West Village Mitchell-Lama Housing Project.As a lawyer, Michele Peters rarely assists her clients in only one area of the law. Her representation includes other matters such as will and estate planning, special needs trusts, business formation, valuation and contract review.Having owned a real estate franchise in Manhattan, Ms. Peters can offer counsel as to the benefits and pit-falls of owning a franchise.A brief summary of her transactional practice is -- managing all aspects of corporate representation in drafting and negotiating a variety of substantive areas such as buy/sell documents; financing agreements; operating agreements; By-Laws; corporate resolutions; independent contractor agreements; employment and severance agreements; employment manuals; commercial leases; privacy policies; disclaimers; confidentiality agreements; intellectual property license and assignment agreements; as well as purchase order terms and conditions. She provides general counsel services on a wide range of topics.Many professional musicians and persons working in theater and film who knew Michele Peters prior to becoming a lawyer, have asked her to represent them in contract negotiations and preserving their intellectual property rights. From 2007 until the program's cessation in 2012, she was the Site-Selector for the State of New York's Dormitory Authority, locating properties to house or build housing for developmentally disabled consumers in New York City. The program called, CitiSearch, Phase I and Phase II, became the model for the upstate NY program.Since 2009, she has been a court appointed mediator in the New Jersey State Mortgage Foreclosure program negotiating settlements between lenders and home owners.Grateful that she has been giving the ability to assist others, Michele Peters has served as a volunteer attorney for many organizations including the New York City Bar Empire Center for Justice - Lawyers' Foreclosure Intervention Network (LFIN), a joint project of the City Bar Justice Center and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Additionally for the New York City Bar, she is a mediator with the Departmental Disciplinary Committee's Complaint Mediation Panel for the First Department.In prior years, Ms. Peters has served with the Civil Legal Advice and Resource Office (CLARO) a program in cooperation with the New York State Courts Access to Justice Program, Fordham Law School, the Legal Aid Society, and the Bronx Supreme Court assisting pro se defendants in consumer collection actions; and with the New Jersey State Bar's "Wills for Heroes" project.While in law school, Ms. Peters was honored to have interned with Judge Jane Solomon in New York's Supreme Court, and the Hon. Cornelius Blackshear (retired) in the S.D.N.Y. Bankruptcy Court.She is pleased to participate in judging New York Law School's Annual Robert F. Wagner National Labor and Employment Law Moot Court Competition, the nation's largest student-run moot court competition. She was the volunteer attorney coach for the New Jersey State Bar's High School Moot Court Trial competition for Elmwood Park High School for 2011.An active member of the New York and New Jersey State Bar Associations (Real Property, Alternative Dispute Resolution, and General Practice Sections), as well as New York's City Bar, Ms. Peters is admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the District of New Jersey, as well as the States of New York and New Jersey.She is a certified guardian and receiver recognized by the State of New York.Ms. Peters is a frequently sought guest speaker and quoted in the areas of finance and real estate for national and local media. Her media credits include The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Crain's New York Business, The Real Deal, The Cooperator, as well as other consumer and professional publications.Besides legal associations, Ms. Peters is a member of New Jersey Women in Law Enforcement.She has served on the Board of Directors of the Manhattan Association of Realtors (MANAR); was a member of REBNY for which she served as co-chair of the Small Firms Committee (SFC), member of the Inter-Firm Forum and the Economic Development Committee.Michele Peters has taught at Hofstra University participating in the undergraduate real estate finance classes as a guest lecturer; is a continuing education instructor for local and state Boards of Realtors (as well as REBNY, PropertyShark University, and real estate firms); and has most recently been in demand lecturing on the advanced subject of distressed properties and short sales.
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