Jeffrey Harrison Roth is a partner in the firm’s Real Estate Litigation and Landlord-Tenant groups. Mr. Roth is a prominent real estate and landlord–tenant litigator who has prevailed in over a thousand cases as a trial attorney. Mr. Roth has spent more than 30 years practicing in Supreme and Housing Court in New York City and its surrounding boroughs, including Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester Counties.

Before joining Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C., Mr. Roth served for thirteen years as Special Counsel at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, where he focused on landlord-tenant litigation, commercial leasing, and complex real estate matters. He was also a founding partner of Kramer, Roth & Rosenbaum LLP and the owner and principal of the Law Offices of Jeffrey H. Roth. His extensive experience includes matters involving real estate broker commission disputes, partition and accounting actions, lease guaranty disputes, commercial and residential nonpayment and holdover proceedings, declaratory judgment actions, Yellowstone injunctions, HP proceedings, adverse possession claims, lease disputes, breach of contract actions, bankruptcy issues, co-op and condominium disputes, easement disputes, specific performance actions, rent overcharge cases, succession rights claims, tenant buyouts, licensee proceedings, rent regulation disputes, condominium common-charge liens, mechanic’s liens, nuisance claims, security-deposit disputes, noise and odor complaints, overcrowding issues, the sale and purchase of co-ops, condominiums and residential real property, the enforcement of judgments and the preparation and negotiation of commercial leases.

Mr. Roth has handled appeals before the Appellate Division, First and Second Departments and the Appellate Term, First and Second Departments. He has been quoted in The New York Times and The New York Post in connection with several litigated matters. Mr. Roth is also a former member of the New York County Lawyers Association’s Civil Court Practice Section and the Association of Arbitrators.

Among his most notable cases include:

• Riverton Tenants Association v. Compass
• Reliable Wool Corp. v. 117–119 Leasing Corp.
• Vermeer Owners Inc. v. Messer
• Winston Churchill Owners Corp. v. Churchill Operating Corp.
• 19th Street Associates & Morris Sosnow v. State of New York
• Steinmetz v. Barnett