J. DAVID ELDRIDGE, ESQ.

Earned his B.A. degree in philosophy from Hofstra University and his J.D. degree from Touro Law School. With a broad background in community association law, commercial & corporate, municipal, real property, zoning/land use and civil litigation, he practices in state and federal court, including the briefing and arguing of appeals.

Mr. Eldridge focuses on the areas of community association law and civil and commercial litigation, including construction matters and landlord-tenant cases. Currently serving as Special Counsel for the Village of Mastic Beach, he previously served as General Counsel to Damianos Realty Group in Smithtown, New York, and was a managing partner at Eldridge & Langone, PLLC, focusing on complex litigation, motion practice and appeals. He was also a partner of Pachman, Pachman & Eldridge, P.C., practicing in civil litigation in state and federal court, as well as real property, municipal and zoning law. A prior director of the Suffolk County Bar Association’s Board of Directors, past-President of the Suffolk County Columbian Lawyers Association, and a member of the New York State Bar Association, he also Co-Chaired the Suffolk County Bar Association’s Legislative Review Committee for eight years. In addition to acting as Special Prosecutor for the Village of Greenport, Mr. Eldridge served as counsel to the Suffolk County Police Columbia Association, and is a Past- President of the Community Associations Institute of Long Island, as well as a current delegate of its Legislative Action Committee.

While Associate Dean and Officer of the Suffolk County Bar’s Academy of Law, he was responsible for selecting, organizing, and overseeing numerous legal seminars providing CLE credit to attorneys throughout the county, and frequently teaches seminars for board members of community associations. Regularly publishing legal articles on a variety of topics, he also served as an Assistant Legal Articles Editor for the Suffolk Lawyer, published a monthly column in the New York State Bar Association’s Law Journal, authored a monthly column in the Suffolk Lawyer entitled “Did You Know?”, and co-authored the “Civil Litigation Corner” found in that monthly publication.

Mr. Eldridge is a current or former member of the Suffolk County Bar Association’s Grievance Committee, Bench-Bar Committee, Nominating Committee, Ethics Committee, Municipal Law Committee, Curriculum Committee, and Appellate Committee, and is a Board member of the Alexander Hamilton Inns of Court. He is admitted to practice law in New York; the Supreme Court of the United States; Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit; Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces; Federal Court of Claims; and the U.S. District Court, E.D.N.Y.

Cases litigated by Mr. Eldridge have been cited in numerous appellate and trial courts, as well as in Carmody Wait 2nd; NY Jurisprudence; CJS; ALR; Rathkopf’s Zoning Law and Practice; New York Contract Law; New York Zoning Law and Practice; New York Practice Series; and Holtzschue on Real Estate Contracts.