Lee M Perlman

Lee M. Perlman graduated from American University in 1990 from the School of Public Affairs in Washington D.C. with a concentration in Government. After serving as an assistant campaign manager in a United States Congressional Campaign in Boston, Lee left to begin Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan. After law school, Lee worked as a judicial intern for an Atlantic County New Jersey Superior Court Judge in the Chancery Division for one semester. He then formed his law practice in 1994.   Shortly thereafter was the inception of Perlman and Block with Lee as the founding and managing partner. That partnership dissolved in 1996 and Lee has been in solo practice ever since.

Lee now practices with his three associates exclusively concentrating in consumer bankruptcy, FCRA and FDCPA work. He and his staff of ten oversee three offices and file well over 500 consumer bankruptcy cases per year in all three New Jersey vicinages.

Lee is a graduate of the Bankruptcy Inn of Court Program through Seton Hall University, a member of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy attorneys since 1997, a member of the National Association of Consumer Advocates, an attorney member of the District Ethics Committee of the Supreme Court of New Jersey as well as a member of the Rutgers University Bankruptcy Pro Project Steering Committee, in addition to being a longstanding member of several county bar associations and serving as a panelist at several CLE seminars. Most recently, Lee has been a guest commentator on Fox News discussing identify theft and the proliferation of credit card usage on college campuses, has appeared as a guest commentator on the national Fox Business Network and serves as Attorney Instructor for the Jersey Bankruptcy Law Foundation. Recently, Lee testified before the New Jersey Legislature in support of a bill aimed at curbing abusive debt collectors in New Jersey.

He is a graduate of Max Gardner’s intensive Bankruptcy Boot Camp litigation seminar.

Lee has appeared on the radio program Legal Perspectives on 1210 am CBS Radio as a guest attorney answering consumers questions about bankruptcy, debt and mortgage related concerns.

In 2010, Legal Services of New Jersey presented Lee with a Justice Medal of Honor for outstanding pro bono service.

In 2011, Lee was named an Awesome Attorney by SJ Magazine.

In 2018 Lee was a panel presenter at the Camden County Bar Assocation legal education seminar.

In 2018 Lee was interviewed on the Legal line television program

In 2019 Lee was named to the national Superlawyers list

Lee and his wife Kristen live in Haddonfield with their daughter Kate and son Jared.

Classes/Seminars Taught:

Guest Lecturer, “Introduction to Law”, Cumberland County College, 1998 – 1999

Testified before the New Jersey Legislature in support of a bill aimed at curbing abusive debt collectors in New Jersey, June 2009

Panelist speaking on mortgage servicing abuse in bankruptcy at the NJ Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Summer 2008

Presenter at Camden County Bar Association Seminar on FDCPA, April 2009

Presenter at Pennsylvania Bankruptcy Conference, 2011

Lecturer at Rowan University Business School on financial management, 2011

Presenter at 16th Annual Bankruptcy Conference, Burlington/Camden Bar, January 2009

Presenter at 2018 Annual Bankruptcy Conference, Burlington/Camden Bar, Tavistock Country Club, Haddonfield, April 10, 2018

Featured in the April 2018 issue of The Barrister, publication of the Camden County Bar Association

Presenter RRG, short sale symposium. January 2018.

Attorney presenter and panelist, RRG Boot Camp/Short Sale Symposium, January 2019.