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John V. Terrana (St. John's University School of Law,
1984) served as a Deputy County Attorney for Nassau County,
where he practiced in the areas of tax certiorari, condemnation,
tax lien litigation and real estate. He later became the
Glen Cove City Attorney, where he was general counsel to
all of the city's departments and boards and represented
the city in its tax certiorari matters. He was also counsel
to the Glen Cove Community Development Agency and the Glen
Cove Industrial Development Agency, where he prepared tax,
financing and contract documents for complex real estate
projects.
Mr. Terrana joined Forchelli, Curto, Deegan, Schwartz,
Mineo, Cohn and Terrana in 1993. As partner-in-charge of
the Firm's Tax Certiorari Department,
he has successfully obtained millions of dollars in real estate tax refunds and
savings for clients, including national, regional and local owners and tenants
of all types of commercial and residential property.
He has been awarded an "AV" legal
ability and ethics rating by Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory
- the very highest rating this nationally recognized publication
has established. This rating is based upon extensive confidential
peer review surveys.
Mr. Terrana is a member of the New
York State, Nassau and Suffolk County Bar Associations
and serves on their Tax Certiorari, Real Property and Municipal
Law Committees. From 2001-2004, he served as Chairman of
the Tax Certiorari and Condemnation Law Committee of the
Nassau County Bar Association. He was recently appointed
Co-Chair of The Suffolk County Bar Association's
Condemnation & Tax
Certiorari Committee. Mr. Terrana has published numerous
articles and lectures on tax certiorari issues. He was
selected for inclusion in the Long
Island Business News' "40
Under 40" (1999), the Long Island
Business News' listing
of "Who's Who in Tax Certiorari Law",
New York Real Estate Journal's "Executive
of the Month," and New York's
Super Lawyers.
Practice Areas: Municipal, Real Estate, Tax
Certiorari
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John
V. Terrana, Esq.
