Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, LLP is pleased to announce that Thomas J. McNamara (Port Washington) was named to the 2023 New York Metro Super Lawyers list.
The honor recognizes top lawyers in their respective areas of practice. The review and selection process includes a statewide nomination process, peer review by practice area and independent candidate research.
Due to the highly rigorous nature of the nomination and review process, only five percent of lawyers in the New York metro area are named to the list. Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters, is a research-driven peer-influenced rating service of outstanding lawyers who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.
The annual selections are made based upon peer nominations, independent research by Super Lawyers, and evaluations from a highly credentialed panel of attorneys.
McNamara is the co-chair of the Litigation Practice Group. His broad commercial litigation and arbitration experience includes issues related to banking, creditors’ rights, contracts, business divorce, real estate, employment, trade secrets, trust and estates, and insurance, as well as corporate, securities, shareholder, partnership, and antitrust matters.
Recognized as an exceptional banking and creditors’ rights litigator, Mr. McNamara has defended banks in forged check, Uniform Commercial Code, and lender liability cases. He has represented banks and other lenders as plaintiffs in actions to enforce their rights under notes, guarantees, security agreements, and related loan documentation.
Equally at home in state and federal court, McNamara litigates many of his cases in New York City, as well as on Long Island.
Frequently published in legal journals and trades, he chaired the Committee on Creditors’ Rights of the New York State Bar Association’s Commercial and Federal Litigation Section, as well as the Commercial Litigation Committee of the Nassau County Bar Association.
He has also chaired, and lectured before, professional continuing education programs in the areas of bank litigation and creditors’ rights.
McNamara taught as an adjunct at New York Law School and Molloy College.
Named to the New York Metro Super Lawyers List, consecutively from 2014 through 2023, he was also honored closer to home with a “Top 10” Legal Eagle Award from Long Island Pulse Magazine.
McNamara graduated from New York University School of Law after earning his undergraduate degree, with honors, in economics from the University of Chicago.
He is admitted to practice in the state of New York; the U.S. District Court, Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of New York; the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. He achieved the highest professional rating by Martindale Hubbell.
McNamara served as a court-appointed Special Master/Discovery Referee in In Re Opioid Litigation from 2018 to 2022.
