Law Offices of Weiss & Weiss

Focus and practice areas

The core of this firm's work is real estate, and the range within that field is wide. Weiss & Weiss handles residential and commercial transactions, financing, sales, purchases and leasing. It also practices cooperative and condominium law, which covers the governance rules that shape apartment ownership across New York.

Cooperative and condominium matters carry their own procedures. A co-op purchase runs through a board application and approval, while a condominium sale turns on the declaration and bylaws that bind unit owners. The firm works on both structures, which are common in the New York City region and its suburbs.

The firm pairs litigation with that transactional work. It represents parties in real estate litigation, such as partition actions, where co-owners of a property ask a court to divide it or order a sale. In my opinion that pairing helps a client, because the lawyer who drafts a deal often reads a later dispute more quickly.

Landlord-tenant and foreclosure work

Weiss & Weiss represents landlords and tenants in landlord-tenant disputes. These matters run through New York's housing and civil courts and can involve nonpayment, holdover and lease-term questions. The firm acts for owners and for occupants, so it works across the positions a case can take.

Foreclosure is a second litigation area, and here too the firm appears for mortgage holders and for borrowers. A New York foreclosure case usually passes through a mandatory settlement conference before it advances, and the result can turn on the loan documents and the payment history. A firm that handles both sides sees how lenders and homeowners each approach that stage.

Commercial leasing rounds out the property litigation and drafting. Lease work for retail, office and institutional tenants involves rent terms, build-out rights and renewal clauses, and the firm handles those agreements for the parties who sign them.

How the team is built

Two partners run the firm, Eric Weiss and Carolyn L. Weiss, who state over forty years of combined experience. The site notes that an attorney handles all matters, so a client works directly with a lawyer on the substance of a case.

Eric Weiss

Eric Weiss worked in law firms across New York City and the surrounding region, and he has appeared in courts at all levels. His court experience centers on landlord-tenant and foreclosure cases. He later opened a solo practice in New York City, where he developed the Business Transactions and Finance and Religious Corporation Law areas the firm now lists.

Carolyn L. Weiss

Carolyn L. Weiss trained at New York City firms in real estate and cooperative and condominium law. She represented cooperative and condominium boards along with buyers and sellers in residential transactions. Her commercial experience includes financing work for lenders and leasing for hospitals, office spaces and retail establishments.

Between them, the two partners cover the transactional and the courtroom sides of the firm's real estate work. Eric Weiss brings the landlord-tenant and foreclosure litigation, while Carolyn L. Weiss brings the transactional and cooperative practice. Their combined background matches the mix of drafting and dispute work the firm takes on.

Estate and business services

An estate department runs alongside the real estate practice. The firm prepares wills, trusts, living wills and health care proxies, and it administers estates and trusts through the Surrogate's Court. That court oversees probate in New York, and a matter there moves through filing, validating the will and settling accounts before assets reach the beneficiaries.

Estate administration through the Surrogate's Court can take months and often more, since the court reviews the will, oversees notice to heirs and approves the final accounting. The firm's role there is to move the estate through those steps and to answer the questions that come up along the way.

Living wills and health care proxies handle a different need. These documents record a person's medical wishes and name someone to make care decisions for them. Keeping them with the will and trust work lets one office cover a client's estate planning together. On the business side, the firm handles Business Transactions and Finance, including entity formation and contract work. As a reviewer, I read that as a service aimed at owners who need the company set up and the property agreements that follow it.

Where the firm works and who it serves

Weiss & Weiss is based in White Plains, in Westchester County, and its office is near the county courts. The firm serves Westchester, Rockland, Putnam and Nassau Counties along with the New York City region. That reach covers the northern suburbs and Nassau County on Long Island, which puts the firm in front of several court systems.

The counties the firm covers include dense suburban housing markets and part of the New York City commuter belt. Property questions in those areas cover co-op and condo ownership, single-family sales and small commercial deals. The firm also practices Religious Corporation Law, a New York framework that governs how houses of worship and religious organizations hold property and manage their affairs. Much of that work concerns a congregation's building and land, so it ties back to the real estate core. With the estate and business departments alongside it, the firm lists ten practice areas in total.