Biography

Ronald D. Hariri is a seasoned real estate and landlord-tenant practitioner with over thirty years of experience. He has represented a diverse client base ranging from large commercial landlords and developers and managing agents to small property owners, as well as closely held corporations, small business ventures and financial institutions and officers and directors of publicly held corporations. Mr. Hariri has written and lectured on various aspects of real estate and landlord-tenant law and has served as a designated law firm for the Rent Stabilization Association’s ’Legal Plan (NYC’s largest trade association) since 1989.

Mr. Hariri has been appointed by the Chief Administrative Judge of the New York State Court System to serve as representative of the real estate industry on the Housing Court Advisory Council. He is a member of the American Bar Association (Member Section on Litigation), and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, where he served as Secretary of the Civil Court Committee. He also served as a member of the Housing Court Committee, as well as the Sub-Committees on Housing Legislation and the Judiciary. He is also a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers Of America.

A life-long New Yorker, Mr. Hariri is a magna cum laude graduate of Columbia College and was also graduated from Columbia University’s School of Law, where he also served as editor of his Law Journal. During his last year at Columbia Law, Mr. Hariri clerked for the United States District Judge Mary Johnson Lowe of the Southern District of New York. He began his legal career at Finley, Kumble, Wagner, Heine, Underberg & Casey, founded by New York City Mayor Robert F. Wagner and Governor Hugh Carey.

Mr. Hariri also has taught continuing legal education courses on the purchase of real estate and summary proceedings and writes frequently for real estate trade publications. Mr. Hariri also owns and manages residential apartment buildings in Manhattan in the Sutton Place and Turtle Bay communities. In addition to his real estate practice, Mr. Hariri is an experienced commercial litigator, who has appeared in both Federal and State Courts on a broad spectrum of matters including corporate and securities disputes. He is admitted to State and Federal Courts in New York and pro haec vice to State and Federal Courts in New Jersey.

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