Bear Mountain Criminal Lawyers

Mike is the President at O’Connell and Aronowitz. He handles plaintiff’s personal injury cases and criminal defense at our firm. He has handled or supervised over three dozen homicide prosecutions, trying many of those cases to verdict, and he has been a court-appointed special prosecutor in homicide cases in Albany and Rensselaer counties. While in law school, Mike was an Associate Editor of the Albany Law Review. Upon graduation, he entered the Albany County District Attorney’s Office as an assistant district attorney under the Hon. Sol Greenberg. In 1991 he was hired by the Hon. Mary Donohue as Chief...

Fred Korkosz:

Admitted to practice in 1989
Winner of the Legal Aid Society of Northeastern NY's Distinguished Service Award, 2002
Former Secretary of American Immigration Lawyer's Association Upstate New York Chapter
Continuing Legal Education Lecturer for the New York State Bar Association

Attorney at Law focusing primarily in criminal law. J.D. from Hofstra University School of Law 1994. Retired Lieutenant Suffolk County Police Department. Masters Degree from Long Island University in Professional Studies. Bachelors Degree from SUNY Cortland in Sociology/Education.

James Melita, who grew up in Gloversville, graduated from Plattsburgh State University of New York with a major in political science and a minor in economics. He then graduated from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Michigan. After graduating from law school, James Melita formed his own law practice with a main office in Albany, NY, specializing in Traffic Defense Law, Collections Law, Family and Matrimonial Law, and Real Estate Law.

I am currently a solo Practicianer who handles and represents clients in criminal defense work in the NYS Courts, Federal Courts and Florida and who is well known as a very experienced trial attorney, having tried several hundred criminal cases in the above jurisdictions and handled many hundreds of cases before these and other courts.

Caitlin M. Hayes, Esq. a licensed New York attorney has extensive international legal know how, as well as social, cultural and marketing expertise from her varied travel and global work experiences which enhances her professional offerings to go beyond traditional lawyering into consulting, coaching and instructing. She also authors poems, a blog and articles in various publications and is the purveyor of www.SpiritualizeYourself.com a 'E-commerce Boutique for your Soul', where she sources product locally and globally that includes fair trade, sustainable, artisan products. Caitlin helps her clients navigate, and overcome, cultural differences and apprehensions that can...