David H. Stein

Practice Areas

David H. Stein is a shareholder at Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, P.A. and co-chair of the firm’s Banking and Financial Services group and the Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights group. Mr. Stein focuses his practice on lending, work-outs, commercial litigation, business reorganization, foreclosure litigation, asset recovery, and judgment enforcement matters.

Mr. Stein has significant courtroom experience in the litigation of complex commercial matters, enforcement and priority of liens, claims, and security interests, and other matters affecting the debtor-creditor relationship. His clients have included banks, financial institutions, leasing creditors, creditors' committees, trustees, debtors, receivers, commercial landlords, and purchasers of distressed assets.

In 2021, Mr. Stein was appointed to the Roster of Mediators maintained by the New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts pursuant to R. 1:40-2. In 2022, Mr. Stein was appointed to the Roster of Mediation in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of New Jersey, for a term of three years, and was elected Secretary to the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Bankruptcy Law Section.

Mr. Stein earned his law degree at University of Baltimore School of Law in 1986 and earned his undergraduate degree at Rutgers University in 1982.

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Professional Memberships

American Bar Association, Business Law Section; New Jersey State Bar Association, Debtor/Creditor Section; New Jersey State Bar Association, Equity Jurisprudence Committee; Turnaround Management Association; Essex County Bar Association; Middlesex County Regional Chamber of Commerce, Board of Directors,