Mechanicville Business Lawyers

Corporate, Securities and Business Law Board Advisory Services Compliance/Governance/Best Practices Regulatory Representation Internal Investigations Over 20 years experience in business, legal and management positions, most recently as Executive Vice President and US Corporate and Securities Counsel of a Fortune 50 company, with significant management, supervisory and oversight responsibilities in the areas of risk assessment, strategic planning, corporate governance, legal and regulatory compliance, mergers and acquisitions, privacy issues, and all aspects of corporate, securities, intellectual property and employment law, as well as primary liaison with Management Board and key members of senior management.

Peter Kelly, Esq., a native of New York State, has been admitted to the New York State Bar since 1978. Our offices are located in historic Wurtsboro, New York within easy access from Sullivan, Orange, Rockland and Ulster counties. We are approximately 65 miles from New York City. We handle General Practice matters with an emphasis on Real Estate and Probate matters. To see all areas of practice, please click on "Practice Areas"on our web site. We can accomodate clients' needs easily with the internet, as well as in person. Our office provides professional, prompt and affordable...

Anthony H. Handal is an experienced patent and trademark litigator, who has worked as lead counsel in over 200 U.S. district court lawsuits for such clients as ADM, Estee Lauder, JVC, The London Times, Conair, SNPE, Nieman Marcus, Target and many other such companies with amounts at risk exceeding $2 billion. His first chair experience includes U.S. Supreme Court representations in copyright and patent cases. He has also obtained hundreds of patents for his clients, and provides clients with a wide range of counselling services in the intellectual property space.

Now again in private practice, Jeff is an attorney and counselor-at-law providing private general counsel, legal crisis management, and dispute strategy and management services to individuals and families, real estate organizations, family-owned and closely-held businesses, the white collar justice community, and special situation and pro bono clients. For over 20 years Jeff served as managing attorney of a 20+ employee law firm headquartered in New York City, and then Westchester County, NY. Among other practice areas, the firm engaged in representation of family-owned/closely held businesses and their owners, business and real estate transactions, trusts and estates, and litigation. Jeff also served...

Stacy R. Klozow, Esq. practices in the areas of commercial litigation and plaintiff’s personal injury. In her practice of commercial litigation, Ms. Klozow represents plaintiffs and defendants in matters involving contract, real estate and business disputes. She also represents individuals who have suffered personal injury and financial loss in matters involving wrongful death, construction accidents, motor vehicle accidents, premises liability, assault and battery, and general negligence.

Mr. Ahuja is a U.S. citizen born in India. He is admitted in the states of New York, Connecticut, Virginia, U.S. Tax Court, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, U.S. District Court; Southern District of NY, U.S. District Court; Eastern District of NY, and India. Mr. Ahuja received his education and experience both in India and the United States. Mr. Ahuja holds an LL.M. (International Business Law); an LL.M. in Labor Laws; LL.B. (JD); M.B.A. (Personnel Management & Labor Welfare); M.B.A. (Business Management); a Diploma in German language; a Postgraduate Diploma in Gandhian Philosophy, besides his M.A. (Major: International...

Sean J. McGowan is a partner in Kaufman McGowan PLLC, Long Island’s Corporate & Securities Law Firm™ and Corporate & Securities Counsel to the Cannabis Industry™. He is a leading corporate cannabis lawyer in New York and the USA and represents emerging growth, middle market and public companies and investment firms in their corporate, securities, financing, borrowing, merger & acquisition and other legal matters. Mr. McGowan is: - President of the Columbian Lawyers' Association of Suffolk County. - Secretary of the Confederation of Columbian Lawyers of New York State. - Member of the New York State Bar Association and its Cannabis Law Section. -...

BS Economics, City College of New York, 1963
MILR, Cornell University, 1965
JD, cum laude, NYU, 1969
Editor, NYU Law Review

Mr. Palermo has over 35 years of diversified business experience including 25 years in the practice of Law. His professional career began at The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A., where he was a middle market lending officer for several years. After completing his MBA at Adelphi University, Mr. Palermo left Chase to take the position of Vice President , Finance for The Neil Automotive Group. He then returned to school full time on a full scholarship, earning his JD from Hofstra Law in December, 1993. Combining his business experience with his law degree, Mr. Palermo practiced corporate law at the New...

Cassandra H. P. Donovan is an accomplished Attorney with a comprehensive background in complex civil litigation. She utilizes her diverse professional background and legal experience to represent clients in various phases of the litigation process. Ms. Donovan’s practice currently focuses on business litigation, trusts and estate, family law, civil litigation and insurance defense. Ms. Donovan has an extensive complex litigation background. For more than a decade, Ms. Donovan defended and managed an extensive caseload, on behalf of major corporate clients, in the Upstate New York Asbestos Litigation. Furthermore, Ms. Donovan has successfully defended officers and directors of housing...

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Marian Quintero has represented award-winning photographers and business owners in intellectual property matters, including copyright and trademark issues. She earned her Juris Doctor degree from St. Thomas University School of Law in 2022, where she also received a Certificate in Intellectual Property Law. During law school, she served as Vice President of Financial Affairs for the Moot Court Honor Society and externed for Judge Barbara Areces in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit. She is admitted to practice law in Florida and the Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Florida, as well as the Northern District of Texas.

I advise on a broad range of copyright trademark, licensing, trade secret, right of publicity, privacy, corporate transactional and litigation matters. Prior to opening my firm, I worked on intellectual property and general corporate issues at an academic publishing house. I also clerked with Chief Judge Khalida Rachid Kahn at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Before I entered law, I performed bass and taught music.