Kathryn Sammon Burns, Esq.
kburns@forchellilaw.com
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Kathryn Sammon Burns (St. John's University School of Law, 2008) is an Associate, concentrating her practice in the areas of real estate and banking litigation, residential and commercial foreclosures, workouts, debtor and creditor rights, bankruptcy and corporate law.

Ms. Burns primarily counsels institutional and private lenders, mortgage loan servicers, and individuals in the various aspects of foreclosure and collection law, and represents clients in real estate and banking litigation, including foreclosures, lender liability claims, lien priority disputes, title issues, mortgage contract disputes, usury claims, surplus money proceedings, and settlement negotiations.

Ms. Burns was the featured LI Columnist in the February 2010 New York Real Estate Journal with her article, "How New Residential Foreclosure Laws Affect Commercial Lending." Ms. Burns has also been published in The Nassau Lawyer, July/August 2010 issue, with her article "The Slow Road to Economic Recovery," co-authored with James C. Ricca, and in The Suffolk Lawyer, September 2010 issue, with her article "Amended Foreclosure Procedures: How to comply with changing rules." In addition, she was featured in the New York Real Estate Journal's annual "Women in Real Estate," 2010 edition.

Ms. Burns is admitted to the New York State Bar and the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Mrs. Burns is a member of both the New York State Bar Association and the Nassau County Bar Association, and is a member of the Committees for Young Lawyers, Real Property Law, and Bankruptcy Law.

While in law school, Ms. Burns was the Co-Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor of the St. John's Journal of Legal Commentary, and authored "Therapeutic Jurisprudence: An Examination of Problem-Solving Justice in New York". Ms. Burns was also elected to the Student Bar Association, was on the Dean's List, was the recipient of an Academic Achievement Scholarship, and received the CALI Excellence for the Future Award in White Collar Crime. While earning her degree, Ms. Burns worked as a Law Clerk with the Firm. Ms. Burns obtained her B.S. from Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut.

Practice Areas: Banking and Finance, and Real Estate
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Related Information

July/August 2010
James C. Ricca and Kathryn Sammon Burns’ “The Slow Road to Economic Recovery,” in the Nassau Lawyer

May 2010
Women in Real Estate 2010, New York Real Estate Journal

February 9, 2010
NYREJ Article: How new residential foreclosure laws affect commercial lending

October 21, 2009
Decision Published in The New York Law Journal

July 13, 2009
Long Island Business News Lists Kathryn Sammon Burns as a Newsmaker

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