Metz, Jill M.

Ms. Mehlman was admitted to practice before the Bar of the State of New York in 1991. She graduated Brooklyn Law School in the summer of 1990 and received her Bachelor of Arts from Emerson College, Boston, Mass.

Rashel M. Mehlman is an associate with Sweeney, Gallo, Reich & Bolz LLP with a primary background in the lender practice field. Ms. Mehlman has over fifteen years of practice as a residential real estate practitioner, handling all aspects of foreclosure actions; including deficiency and surplus money proceedings; loan sales; stipulations of settlement; estate proceedings on the secured creditor''s petition; and contested foreclosure proceedings. Her bankruptcy practice includes representing the secured creditor on Chapter 13, 7 or 11 petitions; closing experience for the lender as financing entity, as REO/seller in foreclosure; transactional background through a certain title agency, title review, and title transfers; said representation covers the major institutional entities, including governmental loans.

Ms. Mehlman''s experience also includes landlord & tenant practice, appearance on holdover and non-payment proceedings; contested landlord/tenant matters; collections disputes; and co-op foreclosures and complicated real estate transactions.

Ms. Mehlman has lectured for the Queens County Bar Association on bankruptcy practices relative to foreclosures and post-foreclosure evictions.