LOCATION

The Law Office of Peter D. Fenzel is conveniently located at 368 Western Highway in  Tappan, NY  in Rockland County, easily accessible from the Palisades Interstate Parkway and the New York State Thruway.  We are only 15 minutes from the Tappan Zee Bridge and Westchester County,  and only 20 minutes from the George Washington Bridge and New York City.  Our firm services the legal needs of individuals, families,  and businesses in Rockland, Westchester, and Orange Counties, and in New York City. 

ATTORNEY PRINCIPAL - PETER D. FENZEL

Peter was born in White Plains, NY and was raised in Eastchester, NY. He attended grammar school in Tuckahoe at Immaculate Conception School, and graduated from Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains in 1969. He earned his Bachelor's degree in History, with honors, from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA in 1973, and earned his Juris Doctor degree from the Fordham University School of Law in 1976.

Peter's early years in the law were spent as an associate, and then as a partner, in a commercial litigation law firm in lower Manhattan. In 1984 he started his own litigation and insurance law practice in Manhattan and in Newark, NJ. In 2008 Peter was recruited by the brokerage side of a large bank, where he served as a registered  advisor certificated in Special Needs and Elder Care Planning. He served there for three years, before returning to his first love, the private practice of law.

Peter has to his credit many published legal decisions earned in the federal and state courts of New York and New Jersey on both  trial and appellate levels. He has served with distinction in leadership capacities on many bar committees and associations. He is a member of the Rockland County Bar Association, the New York City Bar Association, and the New York State Bar Association, and seves on several bar committees on Trust and Estate Law, Elder Law, Special Needs Law, and litigation.

Peter is the father of five children, all grown, and so far one grandchild. He has served his community as a Cub Scout Cub Master, as a basketball coach, a soccer coach, a softball coach, and as president of his Rotary Club, among many other civic volunteer positions. He is a parishoner of the Church of the Presentation in Upper Saddle River, NJ,  and is a member of the John A. Keogh Council Knights of Columbus in Tuckahoe.

Peter is the Director of Street 2 Street Preparatory Academy in Paterson, NJ, an after school tutoring program benefiting inner city children. He also is founder and president of Serviceman's Transitional Assistance Resources (STAR), providing defense and counsel to combat veterans carrying the hidden wounds of Post Traumatic Stress and Traumatic Brain Injury.

In his spare time Peter is a student of the Revolutionary War in Rockland, Orange,  and Bergen Counties, and sings second tenor in the Orpheus Club Men's Chorus.