Michele A. Peters came to the practice of law in 1999 after a prior successful eleven year career in real estate brokerage.  A graduate of New York Law School and Syracuse University, she was formerly an associate with Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, NY in their corporate restructuring / bankruptcy department.  Ms. Peters went on to providing counsel to residential co-operative boards of directors; handled landlord-tenant matters; collections; general business law; discrimination suits; as well as real estate transactional matters.  She worked as in-house counsel, Director of Sales and Project Development for Manhattan’s largest independently owned real estate firm prior to opening her own firm in 2005.

Ms. Peters is a New Jersey Court Appointed Mediator and a participant in the New Jersey State Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation program.  She volunteers her legal services with the CLARO project working with the Legal Aid Society of the Bronx Supreme Court assisting defendants in consumer collection actions.  Since 2006, she has been the site-selector for the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York finding homes for the Developmentally Disabled in New York City.

Ms. Peters owned the real estate firm, Weichert, Realtors - Peters Associates, located in Mid-town Manhattan from 2005 through 2009.   Having been the Sales Director for the Corcoran Group’s MacArthur Associates work-out sales project with Chase Manhattan Bank in the late 1980’s, and representing the FDIC properties in Manhattan, Ms. Peters is uniquely skilled in offering marketing and sales advice related to distressed real estate.

While in law school, Ms. Peters interned for Judge Jane Solomon in New York's Supreme Court, and the Hon. Cornelius Blackshear in the S.D.N.Y. Bankruptcy Court.  She is pleased to be a judge in New York Law School’s Annual Robert F. Wagner National Labor & Employment Law Moot Court Competition, the nation’s largest student-run moot court competition.

A member of the New York and New Jersey State Bar Associations as well as New York's City Bar, and the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys, Ms. Peters is admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the District of New Jersey, as well as the States of New York and New Jersey.

Ms. Peters is a certified guardian recognized by the State of New York.

She served on the Board of Directors of the Manhattan Association of Realtors (MANAR); is a member of the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) for which she served as co-chair of the Small Firms Committee; is a current member of REBNY's InterFirm Forum; as well as the Association of Real Estate Women (AREW).  She teaches local and state Boards of Realtors on the subject of short sales and foreclosures; and is an instructor on the advanced subject of distressed properties for Property Shark University.  In 2010 she will be teaching classes on landlord/tenant law to participants of the investor classes.