JOSEPH I. TERKELL, ESQ.
THE TERKELL LAW FIRM
P.O. Box 764
19 Bender Road
New City, NY 10956
Phone: (845) 517-0670
Fax: (845) 517-0671
E-mail: joltingjoe@AOL.com

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Joseph Terkell is the principal of The Terkell Law Firm whose practice is devoted almost exclusively to the advancement of creditor's rights, with an emphasis upon commercial and collection litigation. His thirty years of experience in the field include negotiation, trial advocacy, substantive and complex motion practice, as well as appellate practice.

CERTIFICATION AND PROFESSIONAL ACHIVEMENTS

• Creditor’s Rights Specialist as certified by the American Board of Certification and Academy of The Commercial Law League of America 1986-present
  
  
• Member and Tresurer of the Board of Directors of the White Plains Bar Association
  
  
• Member of the Board of Directors of The American Board of Certification
  
  
• Member of the Board of Governors of The Commercial Law League of America
  
  
• Member of the Executive Council of the Eastern District of the Commercial Law League of America
  
  
• Member of the Executive Council of the Creditor’s Rights Section of the Commercial Law League of America
  
  
• Past chair of the Membership Committee of The Creditor's Rights Section
  
  
• Past chair of the Marketing, Promotion and Development Committee of the Creditor’s Rights Section of the Commercial Law League of America
  
  
• Member of the Commercial Law League of America's national Member Committee and Promotion, Marketing and Development Committee.
  
  
• Member of the International Association of Commercial Collectors
  
  
• Member of NARCA (National Association of Retail Collection Attorneys
  
  
• Annually delivers New York State sanctioned continuing legal education program on enforcing judgments in New York before the New York County Lawyers Association
  
  
• Recognized as one of “The Super Lawyers” of the Westchester and New York metropolitan area for 2007, as published in The New York Times and Westchester Magazine
  
  
• Executive director of The United Fraternal Holocaust Survivors
  
  
• Publication of various articles in The Commercial Law Bulletin and the Creditor’s Rights Free Press.
  

EDUCATION

JURIS DOCTOR
New York Law School, New York, New York 1981

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE-ECONOMICS
State University of New York at New Paltz 1978

LEGAL LICENSES

New York State Bar 1981-present
U.S. Federal District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York 1981-present.

AVOCATIONS

In his increasingly scarce time, Mr. Terkell enjoys playing the guitar, motorcycle riding, photography, competitive racquetball, wilderness camping and hiking.

Joseph I. Terkell

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