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Ronald Scott (Ron) Kaniuk is a Found­ing Mem­ber of Ricardo, Wasy­lik & Kaniuk, PL (“RW&K”), and serves as both Co-Managing Part­ner and as the Man­ag­ing Part­ner for RW&K’s South Florida offices (in Aven­tura, Boca Raton, Miami and West Palm Beach). Ron is also the Chair of the Bank­ruptcy and Real Estate Depart­ments. An expe­ri­enced busi­ness lawyer and advi­sor with fif­teen (15) years expe­ri­ence in the area of bank­ruptcy and real estate law, Ron reg­u­larly advises a diverse range of indi­vid­ual and busi­ness clients in state and fed­eral courts, and has been a lead­ing advo­cate for home­own­ers dur­ing the cur­rent fore­clo­sure crisis.

Ron is a double-graduate of St. John’s Uni­ver­sity School of Law—he received his Juris Doc­tor degree in 1996, where he was a staff mem­ber of the St. John’s Jour­nal of Legal Com­men­tary, a staff mem­ber and edi­tor for the New York Inter­na­tional Law Review, and an Exec­u­tive Board Mem­ber of the Moot Court Honor Soci­ety. After grad­u­a­tion, he obtained a Fed­eral Bank­ruptcy Clerk­ship with then-U.S. Bank­ruptcy Judge Mar­vin A. Hol­land, and after sev­eral years in pri­vate prac­tice, was recruited to return to St. John’s as a stu­dent in the LL.M. in Bank­ruptcy Pro­gram, from which he grad­u­ated in 2002.

Ron is also a 1993 grad­u­ate of North­west­ern Uni­ver­sity, where he received his Bach­e­lor of Arts Degree in His­tory and Polit­i­cal Sci­ence from the Wein­berg Col­lege of Arts and Sci­ences. At North­west­ern, Ron was a mem­ber of the Order of Omega and Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Soci­eties, an Exec­u­tive Board Mem­ber for Dance Marathon and an offi­cer in sev­eral cam­pus organizations.

Ron is admit­ted to prac­tice in the State of Florida and the United States Dis­trict Courts for the South­ern and Mid­dle Dis­tricts of Florida. He is also licensed to prac­tice in the States of New York and New Jer­sey, and admit­ted to prac­tice in the fed­eral courts in New Jer­sey and the East­ern, South­ern and West­ern Dis­tricts of New York.

Ron focuses his prac­tice in the areas of bank­ruptcy and com­mer­cial lit­i­ga­tion. Through­out his career, he has rep­re­sented indi­vid­ual and cor­po­rate debtors; pri­vate, com­mer­cial lenders; unse­cured cred­i­tors; chap­ter 7 panel trustees; land­lords and ten­ants; and other par­ties in inter­est. Ron advises clients on the busi­ness and lit­i­ga­tion aspects of bank­ruptcy and work­outs. His expe­ri­ence in bank­ruptcy cases crosses a broad array of indus­tries, includ­ing finance, retail, real estate, health­care, mort­gage lend­ing, mar­itime, and telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions. He has appeared in cases in pro­ceed­ings in Florida, New York, New Jer­sey, Delaware and Texas.

With the epi­demic rise in fore­clo­sures, Ron has become an advo­cate for home­own­ers, help­ing with loan mod­i­fi­ca­tions, short sales and fore­clo­sure defense. He is a Found­ing Mem­ber of the Florida Forel­co­sure Defense Bar Asso­ci­a­tion, has been a guest on sev­eral radio and tele­vi­sion pro­grams, and has been a fea­tured speaker at pro­grams through­out South Florida aimed at help­ing home­own­ers with their finan­cial prob­lems. Addi­tion­ally, Ron also rep­re­sents buy­ers and sell­ers of res­i­den­tial and com­mer­cial property.

Mar­ried with three chil­dren, Ron is also active in many char­i­ta­ble and phil­an­thropic endeav­ors, and is delighted to call South Florida his home.

BAR ADMISSIONS
• State of Florida (1997)
• State of New York (1997)
• State of New Jer­sey (1996)
• United States Dis­trict Court for the Mid­dle Dis­trict of Florida
• United States Dis­trict Court for the South­ern Dis­trict of Florida
• United States Dis­trict Court for the Dis­trict of New Jer­sey
• United States Dis­trict Court for the East­ern Dis­trict of New York
• United States Dis­trict Court for the South­ern Dis­trict of New York
• United States Dis­trict Court for the West­ern Dis­trict of New York

EDUCATION
• St. John’s Uni­ver­sity School of Law: LL.M. in Bank­ruptcy (2002)
• St. John’s Uni­ver­sity School of Law: Juris Doc­tor (1996)
• North­west­ern Uni­ver­sity: Bach­e­lor of Arts (1993)

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
• Amer­i­can Bar Asso­ci­a­tion
• Amer­i­can Bank­ruptcy Insti­tute
• Bank­ruptcy Bar Asso­ci­a­tion for the South­ern Dis­trict of Florida
• Broward County Bar Asso­ci­a­tion
• Cen­tral Florida Bank­ruptcy Law Asso­ci­a­tion
• Craig S. Barnard Amer­i­can Inn of Court (2006−2008)
• Dade County Bar Asso­ci­a­tion
• Florida Bar
• Florida Fore­clo­sure Defense Bar Asso­ci­a­tion (Found­ing Mem­ber)
• National Asso­ci­a­tion of Con­sumer Bank­ruptcy Attor­neys
• New York County Lawyers’ Asso­ci­a­tion
• New York State Bar Asso­ci­a­tion
• Palm Beach County Bar Asso­ci­a­tion
• South Palm Beach County Bar Asso­ci­a­tion
• Stephen R. Booher Amer­i­can Inn of Court
• Tampa Bay Bank­ruptcy Bar Association

TELEVISION/RADIO AND SPEAKING APPEARANCES
• Fore­clo­sure 911 spon­sored by the City of West Palm Beach and the Real­tors Asso­ci­a­tion of the Palm Beaches (Recur­ring)
• Home Preser­va­tion Work­shop f/k/a Fore­clo­sure 911 spon­sored by the Vil­lage of Welling­ton and Real­tors Asso­ci­a­tion of the Palm Beaches (Recur­ring)
• South Florida Busi­ness Report (Chan­nel 12)
• Florida Hous­ing Help — A Fore­clo­sure Resource Event in Stu­art, Florida
• Con­gress­man Wexler Eco­nomic Town Hall
• WPEC Chan­nel 12 News
• WPBF Chan­nel 25 News
• On the Money with Steve Pomer­antz
• Peter’s Liv­in­groom with Peter Weil on W4CY.com

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS
• Amer­i­can Israel Pub­lic Affairs Com­mit­tee: At-Large Mem­ber (1996-present); Boca Club Mem­ber (2006-present); Man­hat­tan Club Mem­ber (1996−2004).
• Greater Boca Raton Cham­ber of Com­merce: At-Large Mem­ber (2006– present).
• Jew­ish Fed­er­a­tion of South Palm Beach County: Metro Divi­sion Board Mem­ber (2006-present); Metro Busi­ness Par­lor Meet­ing Chair (2009-present) Metro Busi­ness Break­fast Net­work­ing Series Co-Chair (2008−2009); Metro Divi­sion Cam­paign Co-Chair (2007−2008); Plan­ning & Allo­ca­tion Com­mit­tee Mem­ber (2007−2008); Jew­ish Com­mu­nity Rela­tions Coun­cil (2007-present).
• North­west­ern Uni­ver­sity: Alumni Asso­ci­a­tion: Mem­ber (1993-present); Alumni Admis­sions Coun­cil Mem­ber (1993-present).
• Sigma Phi Epsilon Fra­ter­nity: Chap­ter Founder, Offi­cer and President—Illinois Lambda Chap­ter at North­west­ern Uni­ver­sity (1989−1993); Ex Offi­cio Alumni Board Member—Illinois Lambda Chap­ter at North­west­ern Uni­ver­sity (1993−2001); Res­i­dent Scholar—NY Rho Chap­ter at St. John’s Uni­ver­sity (1993−1996); Alumni Board Mem­ber and Officer—NY Rho Chap­ter at St. John’s Uni­ver­sity (1993−1999); Alumni Board Mem­ber and Officer—NY Upsilon Chap­ter at Hof­s­tra Uni­ver­sity (1993−1999); Alumni Board Mem­ber and Officer—NY Phi Chap­ter at Colum­bia Uni­ver­sity (1996−2001); Dis­trict Gov­er­nor for New York State Region (1999−2001); Edu­ca­tional Foun­da­tion Board of Gov­er­nors (1993−2000).
• UJA-Federation of New York: Young Lawyers Divi­sion (Mem­ber, 1997–2005; Steer­ing Com­mit­tee Mem­ber, 2000–2005); Young Lead­er­ship Coun­cil (Mem­ber, 2000–2002; Edu­ca­tion & Enrich­ment Co-Chair, 2000–2001; Cam­paign Co-Chair 2001–2002); Binyan Lead­er­ship Award Recip­i­ent (2002)
• UJC—United Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ties: National Young Lead­er­ship Cab­i­net Mem­ber (2002−2005); Wash­ing­ton 14 Con­fer­ence Issues and Brief­ings Co-Chair (2003−2004).
• United Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ties of MetroW­est New Jer­sey: Board of Direc­tors (Mem­ber, 2005–2006); Cam­paign Cab­i­net (Mem­ber, 2005–2006); Young Lead­er­ship Coun­cil (Mem­ber, 2004–2006; Ben Gurion Soci­ety Co-Chair, 2005–2006).

PUBLISHED WORKS
• Con­tribut­ing Author to Florida Fore­clo­sure: What Lawyers Need to Know by Thomp­son Reuters.
• Con­tibut­ing Author to Florida: The Fore­clo­sure Cap­i­tal of the Coun­try, pub­lished in Florida Fore­clo­sure Defense Strate­gies, an Aspa­tore Spe­cial Report.
• Bank­ruptcy Guide for Prospec­tive Clients, avail­able on-line at the Firm Web­site (www.ricardolaw.com).
• Arti­cle, Euro­pean Per­spec­tives on Euthana­sia and Physician-Assisted Sui­cide, 9:1 NEW YORK INT’L L. REV. 85 (Win­ter 1996).
• Recent Deci­sion, Zone­heath Asso­ciates Lim­ited v. China Tian­jin Inter­na­tional, 8:2 NEW YORK INT’L L. REV. 133 (Sum­mer 1995).
• Recent Deci­sion, Alaska Sport Fish­ing Asso­ci­a­tion v. Exxon Corp., JOURNAL OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL LAW SECTION OF THE NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION (Aug. 1995).
• Recent Deci­sion, United States v. Alvarez-Sanchez, SJU CRIMINAL LAW INSTITUTE’S FEDERAL CASE REVIEW, VOL. 26, NO. 1 (1995) (also pub­lished in the JOURNAL OF THE 1995 J. WALTER MCKENNA PUBLIC FORUM ON CRIMINAL LAW, April 26, 1995).