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New York residents facing bankruptcy issues have access to attorneys who specialize in Chapter 7 liquidation, Chapter 13 reorganization, means testing, exemptions, and automatic stay protections. The legal framework in New York differs from other states in important ways, and the attorneys listed here have experience navigating Supreme Court proceedings and the specific regulations that govern bankruptcy cases in this jurisdiction.

Bankruptcy cases in New York are filed in federal court, but the state's exemption laws determine what assets you keep. Whether you're considering Chapter 7 liquidation or Chapter 13 reorganization, New York's specific exemptions can significantly affect the outcome. Filing triggers an automatic stay that immediately stops creditor actions, and an experienced bankruptcy attorney knows how to maximize the protections available under New York law.

Choosing the right bankruptcy attorney in New York means evaluating more than just qualifications — it means finding someone who understands the local legal system and has handled similar cases. Use the profiles on this page to compare attorney experience, read client reviews, check office locations, and identify lawyers who offer free initial consultations. Taking the time to compare options can significantly affect your outcome.

For a detailed overview of how bankruptcy law works in New York — including key statutes, deadlines, and what to expect from the legal process — Read our complete guide to bankruptcy law in New York. If you're ready to take the next step, browse the attorney profiles below and reach out for a free consultation.

Brian H. Bronsther - Attorney
Brian H. Bronsther
0/5 (0 reviews)
Bronsther Law Firm P.C.
 12 Century Hill Drive Latham NY 12110
(518) 373-9000
Bar #466451
Florida Bar
Active License
Verified
Bankruptcy Business Law Consumer Law
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Brett S. Noonan - Attorney
Brett S. Noonan
0/5 (0 reviews)
NoonanBrown Law
 423 East Main Street Endicott NY 13760
(607) 953-6367
Albany Law School
English
Bar #4878211
New York Bar
Active License
Verified
Bankruptcy Business Law Criminal Law
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Rohit Kumar - Attorney
Rohit Kumar
0/5 (0 reviews)
Law Office of Rohit J. Kumar
 61-43 186th Street Fresh Meadows NY 11365
(646) 494-6968
St. John s University School of Law (2010)
Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu
Bar #5329834
New York Bar
Active License
Verified
Bankruptcy Civil Rights Consumer Law
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Thomas Nummey - Attorney
Thomas Nummey
0/5 (0 reviews)
The Law Office of Thomas Nummey
 418 Broadway Albany NY 12207
(516) 500-3529
Fordham University School of Law (2006)
English
Bar #4848222
Active License
Verified
Bankruptcy Personal Injury Social Security Disability
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Max Smelyansky - Attorney
Max Smelyansky
0/5 (0 reviews)
The Smelyansky Law Office
 602 Central Ave Ste 102 Albany NY 12206
(518) 688-2800
Baltimore International College
English
Bar #5009022
Unknown Status
Verified
Bankruptcy Criminal Law Divorce
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Btzalel Hirschhorn - Attorney
Btzalel Hirschhorn
0/5 (0 reviews)
Shiryak, Bowman, Anderson, Gill & Kadochnikov, LLP
 8002 Kew Gardens Rd Ste 600 Kew Gardens NY 11415
(718) 263-6800
University of Baltimore School of Law
English
Bar #5289251
New York Bar
Active License
Verified
Arbitration & Mediation Bankruptcy Collections
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Michael Boyle - Attorney
Michael Boyle
0/5 (0 reviews)
Tully Rinckey PLLC
 441 New Karner Road Albany NY 12205
(518) 218-7100
John Marshall Law School (2010)
English, Spanish, Thai
Bar #5988019
New York Bar
Active License
Verified
Appeals & Appellate Bankruptcy Intellectual Property
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Carl R. Rausa - Attorney
Carl R. Rausa
0/5 (0 reviews)
Rausa Russo Law, PLLC
 30 Broad St. 14th Floor New York NY 10004
Elisabeth Haub School of Law - Pace University
English, Italian
Bar #5515879
New York Bar
Active License
Verified
Bankruptcy Business Law Consumer Law
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Kevin Dean Ribakove - Attorney
Kevin Dean Ribakove
0/5 (0 reviews)
Ribakove & Ramirez
 10719 71st Ave Queens NY 11375
(718) 793-5600
SUNY Buffalo Law School
Bar #1405752
New York Bar
Active License
Verified
Bankruptcy Estate Planning Personal Injury
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Mairead Catherine Twohig - Attorney
Mairead Catherine Twohig
0/5 (0 reviews)
Osorio Cachaya Law Offices, PLLC
 203 E Post Rd 1st Floor White Plains NY 10601
(914) 361-4728
Elisabeth Haub School of Law - Pace University (2016)
English
Bar #5565114
New Jersey Bar
Active License
Verified
Bankruptcy Divorce Family Law
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Mary Kathryn Aufrecht - Attorney
Mary Kathryn Aufrecht
0/5 (0 reviews)
Clair & Gjertsen, Esqs.
 4 NEW KING ST WHITE PLAINS NY 10604
(914) 472-6202
Colgate University
Bar #5093257
Louisiana Bar
Active License
Verified
Appeals & Appellate Bankruptcy Foreclosure Defense
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James P. Melita - Attorney
James P. Melita
0/5 (0 reviews)
Melita Law
 2390 Western Ave Suite 107 Albany NY 12084
(518) 867-4248
Bar #4849535
Active License
Verified
Bankruptcy Collections Criminal Law
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Scott Frederick Humble - Attorney
Scott Frederick Humble
0/5 (0 reviews)
 7 Jackson Avenue West Ellicott Jamestown NY 14701
(716) 664-2889
Western Michigan University Cooley Law School (1988)
English
Bar #2345072
U.S. District Courts for the Western District of Pennsylvania Bar
Active License
Verified
Bankruptcy Business Law Cannabis & Marijuana Law
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Andrew Reich - Attorney
Andrew Reich
0/5 (0 reviews)
LaxNeville
 350 Fifth Avenue Suite 4640 New York NY 10118
(212) 696-1999
University of Michigan Law School
English
Bar #5226725
New York Bar
Active License
Verified
Bankruptcy Employment Law Securities Law
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Kevin Jay Kohn - Attorney
Kevin Jay Kohn
0/5 (0 reviews)
Kohn Law Office
 1200 Morris Park Avenue Bronx NY 10461
(718) 409-1200
Western Michigan University Cooley Law School (1987)
English, Spanish
Bar #2393593
New York Bar
Active License
Verified
Bankruptcy Divorce Landlord Tenant
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Bradley Bailyn - Attorney
Bradley Bailyn
0/5 (0 reviews)
The Bailyn Law Office, PC
 6301 Mill Lane Brooklyn NY 11234
(347) 218-5002
Brooklyn Law School
English
Bar #4179560
2nd Circuit Bar
Unknown Status
Verified
Bankruptcy Business Law Collections
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Dennis Charles Gaughan - Attorney
Dennis Charles Gaughan
0/5 (0 reviews)
Law Office Dennis Gaughan
 6161 South Park Ave Hamburg NY 14075
(716) 648-8000
New York Law School (1979)
English
Bar #1927680
U.S. 2nd Circuit Ct of Appeals Bar
Deceased
Verified
Appeals & Appellate Bankruptcy Business Law
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Edward David Smith - Attorney
Edward David Smith
0/5 (0 reviews)
Smith & Associates
 570 lexington Ave. New York NY 10022
(212) 661-7010
Tulane University-LA
English, Hebrew
Bar #3980596
Georgia Bar
Active License
Verified
Bankruptcy Business Law
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Louis A Russo - Attorney
Louis A Russo
0/5 (0 reviews)
Russo Law LLC
 276 Fifth Avenue Suite 704 New York NY 10001
Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University (2004)
Bar #5398607
New York Bar
Active License
Verified
Arbitration & Mediation Bankruptcy Business Law
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Jason Bost - Attorney
Jason Bost
0/5 (0 reviews)
 26 Court Street Suite 2511 Brooklyn NY 11242
(844) 533-3367
Rutgers School of Law-Newark (2009)
Bar #5576335
Federal Circuit Bar
Active License
Verified
Bankruptcy Business Law Divorce
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Sharon M. Siegel - Attorney
Sharon M. Siegel
0/5 (0 reviews)
Siegel & Siegel, P.C.
 521 Fifth Avenue Suite 1700 New York NY 10175
(212) 721-5300
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (1990)
Croatian
Bar #4001830
New York Bar
Active License
Verified
Bankruptcy Education Law Estate Planning
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Robert DeZego - Attorney
Robert DeZego
0/5 (0 reviews)
The Law Office of Robert DeZego
 129 New Dorp Plaza Staten Island NY 10306
(917) 699-7239
Bar #4801007
Unknown Status
Verified
Bankruptcy Criminal Law Foreclosure Defense
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Alexander Korotkin - Attorney
Alexander Korotkin
0/5 (0 reviews)
Law Office of Alexander Korotkin, Esq.
 70 Linden Oaks, 3rd Floor Rochester NY 14625
(585) 419-5714
State University of New York - Buffalo (1991)
Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian
Bar #2663144
New York Bar
Active License
Verified
Bankruptcy Business Law Criminal Law
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Paula Marie Barbaruolo - Attorney
Paula Marie Barbaruolo
0/5 (0 reviews)
Barbaruolo Law Office, P.C.
 12 Cornell Road Latham NY 12110
(518) 782-9100
Albany Law School (1993)
English
Bar #2529873
New York Bar
Active License
Verified
Bankruptcy Real Estate Law Traffic Tickets
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Anthony J. Pietrafesa - Attorney
Anthony J. Pietrafesa
0/5 (0 reviews)
ANTHONY J PIETRAFESA ESQ - CONSUMER LAWYER
 313 E Willow St #202 Syracuse NY 13203
(518) 218-0851
Syracuse University College of Law
Bar #1874627
New York Bar
Active License
Verified
Arbitration & Mediation Bankruptcy Consumer Law
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Sam Ashuraey - Attorney
Sam Ashuraey
0/5 (0 reviews)
 1325 Avenue of the Americas 28th Floor New York NY 10019
(212) 301-7609
Bar #5531496
New York Bar
Active License
Verified
Bankruptcy Business Law
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Kevin R. Lelonek - Attorney
Kevin R. Lelonek
0/5 (0 reviews)
Gross Shuman P.C.
 465 Main Street Suite 600 Buffalo NY 14203
(716) 854-4300
SUNY Buffalo Law School (2016)
English
Bar #5489141
New York Bar
Active License
Verified
Bankruptcy Business Law
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Matthew J. DeFazio - Attorney
Matthew J. DeFazio
0/5 (0 reviews)
Osorio Cachaya Law Offices, PLLC
 203 E Post Rd 1st Floor White Plains NY 10601
(914) 361-4728
Elisabeth Haub School of Law - Pace University (2013)
English
Bar #5186903
New York Bar
Active License
Verified
Bankruptcy Criminal Law DUI & DWI
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Christopher J. Tyrpak - Attorney
Christopher J. Tyrpak
0/5 (0 reviews)
 2560 Walden Avenue, Suite 112 Cheektowaga NY 14225
(716) 288-9175
State University of New York - Buffalo (2008)
English
Bar #4980215
New York Bar
Active License
Verified
Bankruptcy Estate Planning Real Estate Law
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Jayson Lutzky - Attorney
Jayson Lutzky
0/5 (0 reviews)
Jayson Lutzky, P.C.
 1740 Hone Ave Bronx NY 10461
(718) 329-9500
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (1979)
English, Spanish
Bar #1859297
New York Bar
Active License
Verified
Bankruptcy Divorce Family Law
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Peter A. Orville - Attorney
Peter A. Orville
0/5 (0 reviews)
Orville & McDonald Law, P.C.
 30 Riverside Dr Binghamton NY 13905
(607) 770-1007
Syracuse University College of Law
Bar #1735935
New York Bar
Active License
Verified
Bankruptcy Criminal Law DUI & DWI
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Robert B. Niles - Attorney
Robert B. Niles
0/5 (0 reviews)
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
 767 Fifth Avenue New York NY 10153-0119
(212) 310-8651
Harvard Law School
New York Bar
Active License
Appeals & Appellate Bankruptcy Business Law
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Jonathan David Warner - Attorney
Jonathan David Warner
0/5 (0 reviews)
 6 Automation Lane Suite 109 Albany NY 12205
(518) 451-9388
Michigan State University (2008)
English
Bar #5108568
New York Bar
Active License
Verified
Bankruptcy Foreclosure Defense Tax Law
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Allen A. Kolber - Attorney
Allen A. Kolber
0/5 (0 reviews)
The Law Offices of Allen A. Kolber, Esq.
 Rockland County Office 134 Route 59, Suite A Suffern NY 10901
(845) 918-1277
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (1984)
English, Hebrew, Spanish, Yiddish
Bar #2274769
U.S. Bankruptcy Court Southern District of New York Bar
Active License
Verified
Bankruptcy Foreclosure Defense
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Jeffrey Arlen Spinner - Attorney
Jeffrey Arlen Spinner
0/5 (0 reviews)
 PO BOX 7 Lake Grove NY 11779
(631) 830-9119
Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
Bar #2205334
US District Court, Connecticut Bar
Active License
Verified
Animal & Dog Law Bankruptcy Business Law
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Patrick W. Begos - Attorney
Patrick W. Begos
0/5 (0 reviews)
Begos Brown & Green LLP
 51 Pondfield Rd Bronxville NY 10708
(914) 961-4441
Columbia Law School (1984)
Bar #2170686
Connecticut Bar
Active License
Verified
Appeals & Appellate Arbitration & Mediation Bankruptcy
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Martha Johanna de Jesus - Attorney
Martha Johanna de Jesus
0/5 (0 reviews)
Bronx Legal Services
 349 East 149th Street, 10th Floor Bronx NY 10451
(718) 233-6378
Brooklyn Law School (2010)
English, Spanish
New York Bar
Unknown Status
Bankruptcy Foreclosure Defense
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Arnold M. Bottalico - Attorney
Arnold M. Bottalico
0/5 (0 reviews)
Arnold M. Bottalico, Lawyer At Law
 1225 Franklin Avenue Suite 325 Garden City NY 11530
(516) 543-1329
Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University (1991)
Bar #2464279
New York Bar
Active License
Verified
Bankruptcy Estate Planning Foreclosure Defense
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John Lehr - Attorney
John Lehr
0/5 (0 reviews)
JOHN LEHR, P.C.
 1979 Marcus Ave # 210 New Hyde Park NY 11042
(516) 200-3523
New York Law School (2002)
Bar #4372389
New York Bar
Active License
Verified
Bankruptcy Foreclosure Defense
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