Pick & Zabicki LLP provides innovative, top quality, cost-effective legal services to clients of all sizes nationwide. Formed in 2006 by Douglas J. Pick and Eric C. Zabicki, who have practiced law together for nearly twenty years, the attorneys of Pick & Zabicki LLP specialize in the following practice areas: Bankruptcy Creditors’ Rights Commercial Litigation Commercial Agreements General Corporate Counsel State Court Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors Uniform Commercial Code Commercial and Real Property Transactions Pick & Zabicki LLP has extensive experience representing corporate entities and individuals throughout the country with regard to a wide variety of cases, transactions and issues of all sizes. Pick & Zabicki LLP’s attorneys regularly represent diverse parties (from small businesses to institutional entities) in bankruptcy proceedings, all types of commercial litigation in Federal and State courts, and parties to complex commercial and real property transactions and agreements. Pick & Zabicki LLP also serves as general legal counsel to corporate clients engaged in a wide variety of industries (including electronics, apparel, jewelry, real estate and home goods), providing legal assistance on issues such as employment, taxes, contracts, leases, corporate governance, collections and the like. Pick & Zabicki LLP understands that all representations are unique and deserve individualized attention. Different clients have different needs at different times, and communication and understanding our clients’ goals and objectives is key to any successful representation. To this end, our attorneys are responsive to our clients’ requests and are available after regular business hours. Because all of our attorneys work together on matters, each attorney knows and understands all aspects of a given case and can advise the client from start to finish, providing the big picture as well as the small details. Pick & Zabicki LLP’s ultimate goal has always been to provide our clients with top-notch legal work and representation at affordable rates.
Douglas J. Pick has spent the last forty two years practicing law in the areas of bankruptcy, creditors’ rights, commercial litigation, contracts and general legal matters. Over those years, Mr. Pick has successfully represented innumerable corporate entities, individuals and court-appointed trustees and committees in all types of legal and out-of-court proceedings.
Mr. Pick had spearheaded the bankruptcy group at Fink, Weinberger, Friedman, Berman Lowell & Fensterheim PC. He also spent six years at the prestigious firm Otterbourg, Steindler, Houston & Rosen, which specializes in creditors’ rights, prior to leaving to form his own firm with another bankruptcy attorney in 1996. In the interim, Mr. Pick served as assistant general counsel at Manufacturers Hanover Leasing Corp., where he dealt with complex contract issues in courts throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. He also performed health care benefits consulting work for The Segal Co. In 2006, Mr. Pick and his longtime associate, Eric C. Zabicki, formed the firm Pick & Zabicki LLP whose practice quickly rivaled similar practices at much larger firms nationwide.
Mr. Pick has served as an expert on bankruptcy law for CNBC and has appeared as a guest on radio talk shows dealing with consumers’ rights and bankruptcy issues. He has also lectured on creditors’ rights and alternatives to bankruptcy before major trade associations, including groups representing such diverse industries as book publishing, diamond and gemstone, apparel and credit.
Mr. Pick graduated from New York Law School in 1980 while simultaneously working for CT Corporation and, thereafter, The Segal Company. He was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1981 and is a magna cum laude graduate of St. John’s University in New York. Mr. Pick has been recognized as a “Super Lawyer” from 2010 through and including 2022.