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Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP Announces New Associate
- Category: Featured Firm News Environmental
Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP, the Capital Region’s largest law firm, is pleased to announce that Dominique Albano has joined the Firm as an Associate.Dominique received her Juris Doctor from The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. A cum laude graduate of Binghamton University, Ms. Albano received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Environmental Studies. Ms. Albano will be practicing with the Firm’s Environmental Practice Group. Our Environmental Group has a vast [...]
Read More ›Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP Announces New Associate
Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP, the Capital Region’s largest law firm, is pleased to announce that Bradley Schober has joined the Firm as an Associate.Bradley Schober received his Juris Doctor from Emory University School of Law. A summa cum laude graduate of Loyola University, Maryland, Mr. Schober received his Bachelor of Business Administration degree majoring in International Business. Mr. Schober will be practicing with the Firm’s Business, Corporate and Commercial [...]
Read More ›Father-Daughter Team Joins Whiteman Osterman & Hanna Expanding The Firm's Alcoholic Beverage & Hospitality Practice
Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP, the Capital Region’s largest law firm, has extensive experience representing clients in the area of Alcoholic Beverage Law and is continuing to grow this practice with the addition of Alexandra Becker and Richard Burstein.Alcoholic beverage regulation is uniquely complex. The industry is constantly evolving and COVID has exacerbated the already high demand for licenses and need for new capabilities, including take out of alcoholic beverages and the [...]
Read More ›Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP Announces New Associate
- Category: Featured Land Use and Development
Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP, the Capital Region’s largest law firm, is pleased to announce that Melissa Cherubino has joined the Firm as an Associate. Melissa Cherubino received her Juris Doctor from Albany Law School and Master of Public Administration from the University at Albany, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy. Over the last fifteen years, Melissa has developed extensive experience managing development, planning and code enforcement with local [...]
Read More ›Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP Announces New Associate
- Category: Featured Matrimonial and Family Law
Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP, the Capital Region’s largest law firm, is pleased to announce that Brian J. Palamar has joined the Firm as an Associate.Brian Palamar graduated magna cum laude from Albany Law School and served as the Symposium Editor for the Albany Law School Journal of Science and Technology as well as Competition Chair of the Domenick L. Gabrielli National Family Law Competition. A summa cum laude graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology, Mr. Palamar [...]
Read More ›Why Employee Handbooks Are Crucial for Craft Brewers (and Other Small Businesses)
- Category: Articles Alcoholic Beverages
As a craft brewer, your focus is on making the best beer possible. However, being a craft brewer means you are also a small business owner, which means that you also have to focus on managing a successful business. As your brewery grows, it will inevitably lead to hiring employees. Being an employer can be incredibly rewarding, as the right employees can become valuable assets to your business.However, becoming an employer can also be scary at times because having employees [...]
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 [...]
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