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Whiteman Osterman & Hanna Welcomes New Associate
- Category: Featured Business, Corporate and Commercial
Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP, the Capital Region’s largest law firm, is pleased to announce that Nathaniel Chumley has joined the Firm as an Associate. Nathaniel Chumley graduated from Fordham Law School with his Juris Doctor and received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Middle Eastern Studies and Economics from New York University where he studied abroad in Egypt and Abu Dhabi. Mr. Chumley authored a Note entitled, "Are Securities Laws Effective Against Climate Change? A [...]
Read More ›Women's Forum at Whiteman Osterman & Hanna Hold Unity House Fundraiser
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The Women’s Forum at Whiteman Osterman & Hanna held a firmwide fundraising effort to support the Unity House. The Unity House is a Rensselaer County-based human service agency providing services in our community to those living in poverty, adults living with mental illness or HIV/AIDS, victims of domestic violence, and children with developmental delays. Contributions were collected to help the Unity House’s Domestic Violence Program, Children’s Program and [...]
Read More ›Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP Announces New Associate
- Category: Featured Environmental
Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP, the Capital Region’s largest law firm, is pleased to announce that Molly Parlin has joined the Firm as an Associate. Molly Parlin received her law degree from Texas A&M University School of Law with a concentration in Environmental Law and graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Environmental Studies. Ms. Parlin’s previous legal experience includes working with the New York State Attorney General’s [...]
Read More ›Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP Announces New Associate
- Category: Featured Estate Planning and Administration
Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP, the Capital Region’s largest law firm, is pleased to announce that Geoffrey Rafalik has joined the Firm as an Associate. Mr. Rafalik obtained his Juris Doctorate with a concentration in Tax Law from Albany Law School of Union University and his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Siena College. Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Rafalik founded his own firm focusing on estate planning, elder law, and business succession planning. [...]
Read More ›Whiteman Osterman & Hanna holds Fundraiser to Assist the Little Footprints Big Steps Emergency & Recovery Response Fund
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With the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti in August, an impact personally felt by one of our colleagues, the Whiteman Osterman & Hanna team banded together to raise funds to assist the Little Footprints Big Steps Emergency & Recovery Response Fund (“LFBS”) to provide aid to Haitian families. Located in Les Cayes, one of the regions hardest hit by the earthquake, LFBS is providing emergency kit distribution, supporting local child protection authorities in their [...]
Read More ›With immigration matters figuring so prominently in the news, one might wonder, how did we get here? Many of us might think that things were always difficult, that legal entry always involved a formalized process, and that our own ancestors surely did things “the right way” after the formation of the sovereign United States of America.There were no bars to U.S. immigration until 1875, when the first exclusionary law barred convicts and prostitutes from entry. In the decades that [...]
Read More ›USCIS Issues New “Notice to Appear” Policy, With Significant Impacts on Applicants for Immigration Benefits
- Category: Articles Immigration
On July 5, 2018, U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) published new guidance regarding its procedures and policies for issuing Notices to Appear (NTA). An NTA is a charging document that is issued to foreign nationals, placing them in removal proceedings and directing them to appear before an immigration judge. The Department of Homeland Security has long relied upon its enforcement arm, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to handle the issuance of NTAs in most cases. [...]
Read More ›USCIS Updates Procedures on Issuance of Requests for Evidence and Notices of Intent to Deny
- Category: Articles Immigration
On July 13, 2018, USCIS issued a policy memorandum, providing guidance to adjudicators regarding the discretion to deny an application, petition, or other benefit request without first issuing a Request for Evidence (RFE) or Notice of Intent to Deny (NOID) if required evidence is not submitted with the initial petition/application package, or if the evidence in the record does not establish eligibility for the benefit sought. This guidance is effective September 11, 2018.This policy memo [...]
Read More ›“Not in my front yard!” is the battle cry for residents and battleground for municipalities across New York, as they prepare for the deployment of the next generation of wireless infrastructure 5G technology. Cellular services providers, with the assistance of federal law and FCC orders, have opted to deploy the latest technology - small cells and DAS systems - in municipal rights-of-way, much to the chagrin, in many cases, of local leaders and residents. By one [...]
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