Bernard D’Orazio is a native New Yorker who has lived in New York City for 40 years. He served for eight years as an appointed member of Manhattan Community Board No. 1, which participates in City planning processes and other issues facing lower Manhattan. He was for many years a member of the Board of Managers of his 261-unit condominium building located in the Tribeca neighborhood in Manhattan and also served as its President. Mr. D’Orazio is a Public Member of the Business Conduct Committee (formerly known as the Adjudication Committee) of The CME Group, which operates the NYMEX/COMEX Commodities exchanges in New York City. His interests include history, music, sports, film, travel, all things concerning fabulous Upstate New York, and his family. He writes on topics of New York City history for The Tribeca Tribune, a community newspaper.
Mr. D’Orazio is a regular lecturer on judgment enforcement for the New York City Bar Association. He also writes articles on debt collection issues that have appeared in the New York Law Journal, New York’s daily legal newspaper. Most recently, he was appointed Editor of West Publishing’s on-line guide for practicing lawyers, Practical Law, on the topic of New York Judgment Enforcement.
Published Works
- Some Interesting Things About Interest, New York Law Journal, November 13, 2024
- “Going once, going twice: How Trump’s cash and properties would be garnished and auctioned to pay his NY fraud debt”– interview with Bernard D’Orazio, “veteran Manhattan judgment-enforcement attorney who one city Sheriff’s Office insider calls ‘the best collection lawyer in New York.'” Business Insider magazine, March 23, 2024.
- Enforcing Judgments Against “Homestead” Properties, New York Law Journal, October 25, 2023
- A Primer on Poundage, New York Law Journal, September 21, 2023
- Right To Seek Appropriate Post-Judgment Discovery From a Judgment Debtor’s Lawyer Is Firmly Established, New York Law Journal, January 13, 2023
- Threshold Issues in Judgment Enforcement Proceedings When Prosecuting a Non-Party Witness for Contempt, New York Law Journal, January 11, 2021
- “Creating and Enforcing Judgment Liens on Real Property“, The New York Law Journal, December 20, 2021
- “New York’s First Baseball Team and Its Lost Ballpark, The Polo Grounds”, Untapped New York, March 03, 2021
- “Using a CPLR 5222 Restraining Notice to Freeze Fraudulently Transferred Assets”, The New York Law Journal, December 14, 2018
- “Statute of Limitations Rules in Fraudulent Transfer Cases”, The New York Law Journal, June 21, 2017
- “In 1874, a Daring Downtown Plan: Build a Train Tunnel Under the Hudson”, The Tribeca Tribune, Apr 23, 2018
- “New York City’s First Railroad, the New-York and Harlem Line, Began in Downtown Manhattan”, The Tribeca Tribune, May 31, 2016
- “The Astor House, New York’s First Great – Yet Forgotten – Hotel”, The Tribeca Tribune, March 10, 2016
- “Attorney May Take Direct Appeal from a Supreme Court Disqualification Order”, Survey of N.Y. Practice, 59 St. John’s L. Rev. 436 (1985)
Past Employment Positions
- New York Court of Appeals, Albany, NY – Law Clerk
- Shearman & Sterling, New York City – Summer Associate
- Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft – Litigation Associate