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Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP Announces New Partner
- Category: Featured Estate Planning and Administration
Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP, the Capital Region’s largest law firm, is pleased to announce that Nicole L. Clouthier has joined the Firm as a Partner. Nicole L. Clouthier joins the Firm’s Estate Planning and Administration Practice Group where she concentrates her practice on preparing customized estate planning documents for clients and administering lifetime and testamentary trusts and estates after an individual passes away. Nicole has a diverse client base [...]
Read More ›Terresa Bakner to Present on Planning Case Law Update – June 8
- Category: Featured Land Use and Development
The Capital District Regional Planning Commission (CDRPC), a regional planning and resource center, will hold its Spring Webinar Series weekly on Wednesdays and Fridays from May 4 to June 8. Whiteman Osterman & Hanna Land Use Partner Terresa Bakner will present on Planning Case Law Update on Wednesday, June 8. The goal of this session is to provide guidance on how to prepare an administrative record to withstand an Article 78 challenge to a decision by a legislative body or by [...]
Read More ›Terresa Bakner to Present on Wetlands Law in Practice - June 3
- Category: Featured Land Use and Development
The HalfMoon Education Live Webinars is offering a session on Federal Wetlands Science, Law, and Compliance on Friday, June 3. The program is designed to provide an understanding of wetland identification and federal law impacting wetlands and much more. Whiteman Osterman & Hanna Land Use Partner Terresa Bakner will present on Wetlands Law in Practice: Cases and Case Studies providing an overview of cases interpreting federal wetlands law. If you would like to attend [...]
Read More ›Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP Announces New Of Counsel
Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP, the Capital Region’s largest law firm, is pleased to announce that Oriana Kiley has joined the Firm as Of Counsel. Oriana Kiley received her Juris Doctor from Albany Law School and graduated, cum laude, from SUNY New Paltz. Prior to joining Whiteman Osterman & Hanna, Ms. Kiley served as a consultant in Title IX matters for clients of higher education. Prior to this role, Ms. Kiley served as Associate Counsel to the Bureau of Labor [...]
Read More ›Women's Forum Supports Junior League of Albany's Little Black Dress Initiative
- Category: Featured
This week, members of Whiteman Osterman & Hanna’s Women’s Forum participated in the Junior League of Albany’s Little Black Dress Initiative (“LBDI”). LBDI is a week-long, social media-driven fundraising campaign to raise poverty awareness and its effects on women and children in the Capital Region. LBDI is designed to harness the power of social media platforms to raise donations to support JLA’s work and mission of promoting voluntary [...]
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. [...]
Read More ›Court of Appeals Will Hear Lindsay Lohan's and Mob Wives' Star's Appeals of Dismissal of Right to Privacy Suit Against Creator of Grand Theft Auto V
- Posted By: Robert Rosborough
- Category: Case Studies
Grand Theft Auto V is the latest in a popular series of the video games where the player controls one of several main characters in a mob family/drug cartel story that takes place in the fictional city of Los Santos, San Andreas. After the game was released, Plaintiffs Lindsay Lohan and Karen Gravano (of the reality show Mob Wives) were upset at what they believed to be characters that depicted them in particular ways. In 2014, they commenced suit against Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., the [...]
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