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Benjamin R. Blum

Special Counsel

New York, NY
156 West 56th Street
New York, NY 10019
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Experience

Ben focuses on all aspects of complex corporate and commercial litigation. He has actively represented clients in state and federal courts and in alternative dispute resolution forums. His practice has focused on commercial, corporate, and contractual law, real estate litigation, UCC transactions, securities, and creditors’ rights proceedings. Ben's background has easily translated to other commercial concerns including high net worth and estate matters and corporate real estate transactions. 

Representative Matters of Note
  • At a prior law firm, Ben successfully represented an electrical contractor on appeal relating to a consumer protection claim brought under General Business Law 349 by a cooperative board relating to Hurricane Sandy electrical repair work performed. The cooperative board attempted to argue that the electrical contractor should be subject to the NYS General Business Law consumer protections since the electrical work performed would have an impact on the co-op residents who would be “consumers” under the NYS General Business Law. Ultimately, Ben was able to obtain an order from the Second Department confirming that these claims by a co-op board against its electrical contractor failed as a matter of law because the claims did not “adequately allege that the [electrical contractor] engaged in acts or practices that would have a broad impact on consumers at large.”
  • At a prior law firm, Ben was a member of the legal team that successfully represented a developer in connection with a New York Real Property Law 881 dispute that arose on its Tribeca project. The dispute involved the owner of the adjacent property who: alleged that the developer caused damage to its building during the course of construction; denied access to complete the work; further alleged that the developer sought to install underground bracing that was a “permanent intrusion"; and repeatedly denied access until the developer paid exhorbitant monetary damages. The Court rejected the neighboring property owner's arguments -- going so far as to call them “dubious” -- and granted the developer access for 24 months, in addition to ordering that they only pay the neighboring property owner’s legal fees plus a small access fee, which the firm offered to pay in its motion papers. 

Prior to joining Windels Marx, he practiced at several prominent boutique law firms..

During law school, Ben was Associate Notes and Articles Editor of the New York Litigator Law Journal.  Previously, he served as Deputy Village Attorney (Prosecutor) for the Village of Valley Stream. 


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Education

  • J.D., St. John's University School of Law, 2010
  • B.A., History, magna cum laude, St. John's University, 2008

Admissions

  • New York (2011)
  • New Jersey (2010)
  • United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
  • United States District Court for the District of New Jersey