Lee Applebaum

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Attorney

  Firm Name

  Fineman Krekstein & Harris, P.C.
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Matters: Represented a condominium board before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, successfully arguing that the board's decision should be governed by the Business Judgment Rule, reversing the Superior Court.
  Successfully represented a quasi-government entity in the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit where the Court affirmed a judgment in the client's favor based upon res judicata
  collateral estoppel.
  Successfully argued before the Superior Court of Pennsylvania that there was no coverage under an insurance policy based upon the total pollution exclusion.
  Successfully argued before the Superior Court of Pennsylvania that the trial court erred in sending the case to arbitration.
  Represented numerous clients since 2006 in zoning appeals to the Commonwealth Court, including reversals of adverse lower court
  Zoning Board decisions.
  As a mediator, Lee has successfully mediated matters to resolution involving real estate disputes, sales of businesses, internal business disputes, breach of contract claims, accounting malpractice, insurance coverage,
  tortious inference claims.