Stephen Grable

Steve represents fiduciaries, financial institutions, corporate entities, creditor groups, and individuals in all phases of litigation, from pre-action case investigations and assessments, through jury and bench trials, and appeals.

Steve represents clients across the country in the areas of:

Fiduciary Litigation (including contested accountings, probate and will contests, and guardianship disputes, on behalf of fiduciaries and beneficiaries/constituents);

Commercial Litigation (including breach of contract claims and related business torts, on behalf of businesses, and individual officers and directors);

Financial Services Litigation (including commercial loan workouts and defaults, on behalf of borrowers and lenders); and

Bankruptcy Litigation (including fraudulent conveyance and preference disputes, on behalf of secured lenders, unsecured creditors, trustees, and other bankruptcy constituents).

Steve has represented fiduciaries — including individual and corporate executors, individual and corporate trustees for personal trusts, corporate trustees for commercial trusts, and bankruptcy trustees — in a variety of disputes concerning issues of administration and investment, and breaches of fiduciary duty. These include, among others, instrument constructions, account openings and transfers, co-fiduciary requests, beneficiary/constituent requests, discretionary actions, loans to trusts, power to adjust elections, mandatory and discretionary distributions, asset concentrations and diversification, investments in proprietary products, prudent investor considerations and compliance, trust terminations, and identification of distributees. Steve also has prosecuted and defended individual officers and directors in a variety of disputes concerning their fiduciary duties and obligations.

Steve has lectured on fiduciary litigation matters for various bar associations. He also has held adjunct professor appointments at Fordham University School of Law and Seton Hall Law School, teaching both survey and advanced courses on fiduciary disputes and alternative dispute resolution.