David Ganz

David L. Ganz, 60, is an accomplished lawyer, a dynamic author and speaker. He served as the 29th Mayor of the Borough of Fair Lawn, New Jersey (the 4th largest municipality in Bergen County), 1999-2005. Elected four times to three year terms on the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Bergen County (serving 2003-2015) he served as Chairman pro tempore of the Board in 2010. He is also the Managing partner and principal litigator in the law firm of Ganz & Sivin, L.L.P. of Fair Lawn, N.J. and Ganz & Hollinger, P.C. in New York City, he has a practice that is focused on litigation, guardianship, real estate, land use, numismatic law, and general corporate work in New York and New Jersey. An award-winning writer on a variety of topics, he has lectured at the Numismatic-Philatelic Institute at Adelphi University, Garden City, New York, appeared on "The Joe Franklin Show", Boston's "The Good Day" show, been interviewed by many cable t.v. and local news shows, and done Continuing Legal Education lectures and speaking engagements on an ongoing basis on topics that range from Z to A, zoning law to African literature. A prolific author of more than 30 books in a variety of different fields, some of the titless include A Critical Guide to Anthologies of African Literature (African Studies Ass'n, 1973), which nearly 40 years after publication is still considered the definitive guide to anthologies of sub-Saharan African Literature during its classical period, and is found in most university research libraries. He also authored 14 Bits: A Legal & Legislative History of 31 USC §§324d-i (1976), The World of Coins & Coin Collecting (first published in 1980, 3d revised edition, 1998), Planning Your Rare Coin Retirement (Bonus Books, 1998), The 90 Second Lawyer (Wiley, 1996), The 90 Second Lawyer Guide to Buying Real Estate (Wiley, 1997), How to get an Instant Mortgage (Wiley, 1997), The Official Guide to Commemorative Coins (Bonus, 1999), and his latest, The Official Guidebook to America's State Quarters, a Random House Fall, 2000 mass market paperback that has sold over 30,000 copies. It went back to press for reissue in early 2002. He is also the author of a number of law review articles, and book chapters in important works on real estate, and other areas. These include: "Foreclosure" in McGraw Hill Real Estate Handbook 563-582 (1993); "The U.N. and the Law of the Sea", 26 International & Comparative Law Quarterly 1-53 (1977), "Toward a Revision of the Minting & Coinage Law of the United States", 26 Cleveland State Law Review 177-257 (1977), "Probative Value of Currency Dating for Income in Respect of a Decedent," 51 N.Y.S. Bar Journal 487-491 (1978). More recently, his publications include "Valuation of Coin Collection," 5 Proof of Facts 3rd 577-655 (1989), "Legal Ethics: When A Lawyer's Obligation Begins (and Ends)," 125 N.J. Law J. 1742 (June 28, 1990), reprinted in Lawyer's Liability Rev. Q.J. 3-6 (April, 1991), and an interesting newspaper article, "Drop dollar bills; we need $1 coins," USA Today, May 23, 1990, p. 10A (Guest Columnist, "Face-Off"). He previously edited a book on America's Coinage Laws (1792-1894) (Bowers & Merena, 1991). He has written book length works on Rent Control, Small Claims Court defense, Civil Rights (section 1983) violations by government officials, Wrongful Death claims, and Valuation on coin collections, all by West Publishing in its prestigious "Trials" and "Proof of Facts" series. A graduate of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University (Class of 1973) where he followed President Bill Clinton by five years, he took a law degree at St. John's University Law School and did post-graduate legal studies in the masters of law program at New York University. He also studied international law at Temple University (Philadelphia) Law School in Rome, Italy, while working for the coins and medals office of the Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. In 1994, he was awarded the Order of St. Agatha (Commander) by the Republic of San Marino. Show less «