Our Practice

 Avi Frisch was born and reared in Teaneck, New Jersey, where he now  lives. His mother was a high school history teacher; his father was also  a high school English teacher.

Avi is passionate about reading, baseball, public policy and technology. 

He received a Bachelor of Arts in History, summa cum laude, from Yeshiva University in 2002. While there, he studied Jewish law, ethics, and philosophy. He is proficient in Hebrew.

He  received his Juris Doctor from Columbia University School of Law in  2006. He was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, as well as an active  participant in academic and extracurricular activities.

Avi began  his legal career as an associate at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver &  Jacobson LLP. While he excelled in Fried Frank’s litigation department,  he eventually decided to focus his efforts on real estate transactions.

While  at Fried Frank, he was involved in numerous high-profile transactions,  usually exceeding $500 million. He assisted clients nationwide in loan  workouts, sale and purchase of commercial properties, lease conversions,  and financing, securitization, and restructuring.  As a secondary  focus, he represented clients in immigration matters, particularly  asylum cases.

Although Avi enjoyed the challenge of his workload  at Fried Frank, he wanted to direct his attentions and efforts towards  helping individual clients and smaller businesses. He founded The Law  Office of Avram E. Frisch to focus on the practice areas of real estate,  business, and commercial litigation.

Avi also interned for  Justice Sonia Sotomayor while she was a member of the Second Circuit  Court of Appeals. Avi worked closely with Justice Sotomayor and her  clerks on immigration cases, analyzing immigration-related asylum  petitions and cases involving criminal sentencing guidelines.