Our Attorneys

Robert B. Eyre is President, and has several diverse practice areas, including:

• Commercial Litigation
• Property Preservation and Code Compliance law and litigation
• Debtor and creditor's rights, bankruptcy and insolvency
• litigation
• Non-profit, charitable, civic, and religious organizations
• law and litigation
• Financial institutions and real estate law and litigation
• Estate litigation, planning, and administration
• Civil rights, employment, and constitutional litigation

Rob began his practice in 1984 with Selikoff & Cohen, P.C., a labor relations and civil rights boutique firm in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. In 1988, he joined Mesirov, Gelman, Jaffe, Cramer & Jamison in Philadelphia as a member of that firm’s Litigation Department, where he practiced general commercial litigation, eventually focusing on litigation relating to construction, real estate, business bankruptcies, reorganizations, and insolvencies. 

In 1990, Rob joined the Philadelphia Office of Buchanan Ingersoll, and remained with that firm for the next 13 years, taking a three-year sabbatical between 1995 and 1998 to obtain his Master of Divinity Degree from Princeton Theological Seminary. Rob served with Buchanan Ingersoll as a member of its Litigation, Bankruptcy, Real Estate, and Financial Institutions Sections, and its Religious and Non-Profit Organizations Practice Group, before leaving in 2004 to develop his own firm. 

In 2007, Mr. Eyre and Gene Foehl formed Foehl & Eyre, P.C. Mr. Eyre and Mr. Foehl first worked together in community organizing in the City of Chester, Pennsylvania in the late 1990s, and continued that work through the Unity Center, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation that, working alongside Foehl & Eyre, P.C., represents a structured commitment of the law firm to community service.

Since moving to a smaller firm, Rob has added estate planning and administration to his resume, and applied his litigation experience to estate-related litigation in will contests and guardianship matters. He has also applied his experience

representing large commercial lenders and borrowers to the representation of consumers and small businesses in loan default, workout, and lender liability matters.

Experience

• Representing commercial lenders and loan servicing companies in real estate and asset-based loan enforcement, workouts, restructuring, and bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings on claims ranging from
• $50,000 to $150 million.
• Representing a bank syndicate in the investigation and litigation of claims relating to a $50 million inter-creditor securitization fraud by a healthcare financing company.
• Representing the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation as receiver of an insolvent bank.
• Representing the Insurance Commissioner of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as receiver and liquidator of an insolvent insurance company.
• Representing debtors, creditors, and creditors’ committees in litigation matters in some of the largest Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, and Delaware.
• Representing creditors in the enforcement of rights under Article 2 (Sales) and Article 9 (Security Interests in Collateral) of the Uniform Commercial Code.
• Representing creditors and debtors in litigation and workouts relating to commercial and consumer loan defaults, mortgage foreclosures, collection and enforcement of judgments, receivership, preference
• claims, subordination and re-characterization claims, fraudulent transfers, and other special remedies.
• Representing individual and institutional plaintiffs and defendants in breach of fiduciary duty claims against directors, officers, partners, and shareholders in small, closely held businesses and large, publicly traded
• corporations.
• Representing landlords and tenants and commercial and residential lease enforcement actions. Incorporating charitable, civic, non-profit, and for-profit corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies
• and associations and providing advice on organizational governance and management.
• Representing charities, civic, religious, and other non-profit organizations in litigation and workouts relating to loan defaults, lender liability, real estate tax exemption issues, and general litigation matters.
• Representing churches, clergy, and other individuals before ecclesiastical courts and authorities in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, and in general litigation and organizational matters.
• Representing individuals in guardianship petitions, will contest, and other estate litigation matters in the Orphans’ Courts and other courts of Pennsylvania.
• Representing individuals and organizations in litigation of constitutional issues and civil rights and employment claims in state and federal courts.
• Representing individuals and organizations in the negotiation, enforcement, and defense of non-competition and non-solicitation clauses in contracts.
• Representing plaintiffs and defendants in lender liability, predatory lending, and unfair trade practices claims.
• Representing plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of contract and tort litigation matters.
• Representing individuals in the preparation and implementation of wills, powers of attorney, living wills, and other estate planning and administration matters.

Education

• Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, B.S., Public
• Administration, 1980
• Temple University School of Law, J.D., 1984
• Princeton Theological Seminary, M. Div., 1998

Affiliations and Activities

• Member, Pennsylvania, and Philadelphia Bar Associations
• Advisory Director, Consumer Bankruptcy Assistance Project, Philadelphia, PA
• Vice President, Unity Center, Inc., Media, PA
• President, Greater Glenside Civic Association, Glenside, PA
• Board Member, Breath of Dawn, Inc., Abington, PA
• Organizer of the Glenside Interfaith Dialogues, Glenside, PA
• Ordained Minister of Word & Sacrament, Presbyterian Church (USA)
• Parish Associate for Christ’s Community PCUSA in Drexel Hill, PA
• Member of Grace Presbyterian Church, PCUSA, Jenkintown, PA.

Bar Admissions

• Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
• State of New Jersey
• United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• United States District Court, District of New Jersey
• United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.