Adam Leitman Bailey

A few of Adam Leitman Bailey’s more notable cases include:

The Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act–Wielding an arcane and rarely used law to help thousands of home buyers rescind its real estate contracts during the real estate crisis or more frequently, negotiate price discounts, Bailey succeeding in countless cases until Congress stopped Bailey and his firm by repealing sections of the Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act.   

Trump SoHo–According to a real estate magazine, the last day developers and real estate brokers exaggerated their sales numbers ended when Adam Leitman Bailey represented a group of contract-vendees at newly constructed Trump Soho.  Claiming on the Apprentice that the building had been sold out contradicted our evidence that only 15.8 percent of the units had been sold.   Using the courts, and working with the District Attorney’s office, the aggressive prosecution uncovered the inflated numbers and our clients received 90 percent of their money returned plus attorney fees.

Ground Zero Mosque–Because Bailey believes that persons of every religion and nationality should be able to own and build on its property, his firm took the Ground Zero Mosque case. Realizing that if one religion is stopped from building based on its beliefs then other bans against other people and religions could follow.  Besides using the Frist Amendment and pointing out the obvious racism and lack of the proper forum for this case to be litigated, Bailey gave a passionate argument going back into real estate history and religion in America and the builders of the Mosque won the case and were given the right to build.

The Save Harlem Association v. Kimko–The tenants of the largest building in Harlem hired Adam Leitman Bailey to defend itself against the largest shopping center developer in the country.  Wanting to demolish the building and build a shopping center.  All of the leases of the commercial tenants had either expired or had provisions, allowing them to be terminated.  However, Adam Leitman Bailey, appeared in Court and received an injunction stopping the evictions and the demolition of the building.  A decade later, the building still stood and most of the tenants never moved out and were paid over a million dollars to settle their cases.   The arguments presented to the judge included preserving Harlem and its history as the epicenter of African-American culture.

Rivas v. McDonnell–The owner of a Brooklyn multi-family building sold it to two different buyers at the same time and took their money.  Our client has poured her life savings into the purchase.  Our client had not purchased title insurance and the second purchaser not only purchased title insurance but from the largest company in New York.  The fierce battle included theft and fraud, but our client signed her contract first and because we stood at the Recording Office on line at 7 am, we recorded the deed 24 hours before our adversaries.  These facts convinced the court of give our client ownership of the building and this decision participated in changing the recording system in New York to make it harder for a seller to do sell to two parties again.