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Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP, the Capital Region’s largest law firm, is pleased to announce the promotion of Jami Cordell and Zully Cordero as the newest members of the firm’s management team. Jami Cordell is Marketing Manager, leading the firm’s marketing and PR functions. Jami started at the firm as a marketing coordinator in 2016 and has been involved in all areas of firm operations including most recently managing a team of office support professionals. Jami [...]
Read More ›Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP Announces New Associate
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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
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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 ›The firm’s breakfast event on March 23 at our Schenectady office location at the Electric City Innovation Center (ECIC) was a rousing success. Close to 100 people attended the event to hear from Dave Buicko from the Galesi Group, who gave a presentation on recent and future development in Schenectady and at the Mohawk Harbor site. This was our first event held at the Schenectady location, and we will look to host similar events in Schenectady in the future.
Read More ›Whiteman Osterman & Hanna recently represented Eiber Translations, a provider of language interpretation and translation services to interpreters and translators, in challenging the New York State Commissioner of Labor’s determination to hold it liable for additional unemployment insurance contributions. Eiber was originally assessed for additional unemployment contributions due to compensation it had paid to the interpreters, after the New York State Department of Labor determined [...]
Read More ›Court Rejects Challenge to Resort’s Approvals
Whiteman Osterman & Hanna recently represented Crossroads Ventures in the successful defense of a challenge to Department of Environmental Conservation approvals, obtained after a lengthy administrative review process, to develop a large ski and golf resort adjacent to Belleayre Mountain in the Catskills. The challenge was brought by the Catskill Heritage Alliance and several adjacent landowners. The Court rejected the challengers’ claims that the Department of Environmental [...]
Read More ›Court Upholds SEQRA Review and Annexation
Whiteman Osterman & Hanna successfully represented the Village of Kiryas Joel, NY before the Environmental Claims Part of the Orange County Supreme Court obtaining a decision upholding the Village’s SEQRA review and Annexation of 164 acres to the Village from the Town of Monroe in the face of legal challenges commenced by a large group of neighboring municipalities and area citizens’ groups. The Village was represented by Michael G. Sterthous, a partner in the Firm’s land [...]
Read More ›New York’s “first in the nation” financial services cybersecurity rules have been finalized and will go into effect on March 1, 2017. The final regulations cover every business regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services (“DFS”), including but not limited to banks, credit unions, insurers, and mortgage companies. Covered entities have until August 28, 2017 to comply, although longer compliance dates are applicable to some specific provisions. [...]
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