Adam Klausner

Adam Klausner is a Partner at Klausner Cook, LLC in Ithaca, New York, and a corporate, real estate, and business lawyer with more than 30 years of experience. His practice includes residential and commercial real estate, corporate and business matters, trust and estate planning and administration, hospitality, banking, and finance. He advises individuals, companies, entrepreneurs, and nonprofit organizations on transactions, governance, development, succession, purchases and sales, and legal issues connected to growing or transferring businesses and property.

Adam earned a J.D. from Cornell Law School in 1988 and a B.A. in Psychology from Cornell University in 1984. His legal education has supported a long practice involving business formation, real estate transactions, corporate governance, development projects, financing, and succession planning. His Cornell connection also continues through teaching. He serves as a Senior Lecturer at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, where he teaches entrepreneurship, real estate, and internet and ecommerce subjects and has developed online real estate law courses.

Adam has represented individuals and families in real estate purchases, sales, and estate planning matters and has advised entrepreneurs on forming, acquiring, and growing businesses. His representative work includes guiding a science-based service company through growth and acquisition, advising a manufacturing startup through expansions and spinoffs, assisting an international nonprofit through organizational development and grants, and counseling an early ecommerce company through investment rounds and acquisition. His experience spans hospitality, software, manufacturing, development, and nonprofit operations.

Adam Klausner combines transactional practice with teaching and direct experience in real estate ownership, management, and development in Ithaca. His work helps clients structure entities, manage governance, negotiate acquisitions and sales, develop property, plan succession, and organize estate matters. He has also advised cultural and nonprofit organizations on governance and institutional development. By integrating business, property, finance, planning, and educational experience, he provides practical counsel for clients making significant commercial, organizational, and real estate decisions.

Law Office Affiliations

• Partner, Klausner Cook, PLLC
• Member, New York State Bar Association

Licensed State

• New York

Education

• Cornell Law School
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Cornell University
  Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Psychology

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