About Us

We offer a comprehensive and understandable approach to estate planning and administration to serve the needs of each client and their unique family situation. We focus on ensuring that our clients fully understand their personal estate planning and that their plan addresses their individual goals. 

• Wills
• Powers of Attorney
• Explain, draft and facilitate execution of variety of trusts, including first- and third-party Supplemental Needs Trusts, revocable trusts to avoid probate, and irrevocable trusts for Medicaid asset protection
• Estate Administration and Probate

We represent clients in many aspects of real estate projects. Our experience includes advising on real estate purchase and sale contracts, land contracts, and asset purchase agreements. 

The scope of our real estate practice spans from gifting the family camp from parents to child, to the purchase of hunting land, to the sale of a million-dollar campground. 

• Prepare and negotiate contracts
• Prepare pre- or post-possession agreements
• Review title for marketability
• Family deed transfers (with or without reserved life estate)
• Represent purchasers and sellers in residential or commercial transactions

We work to help our clients understand social security requirements by using common sense language. We represent client seeking Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and/or Supplemental Security Insurance (SSI) benefits from requesting reconsideration following a denial on their initial application to appeal to Northern District of New York federal court following an unfavorable Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) hearing and appeal to the Appeals Council.

• Evaluate claims
• Explain eligibility requirements
• Requests for reconsideration following initial denial
• Representation for hearings before administrative law judge (ALJ)
• Appeal to Appeals Council following ALJ denial
• File suit in Northern District of New York federal district court

 Municipalities face a variety of challenges as they provide services to their communities. We handle a multitude of public sector municipal law, representing municipalities themselves as well as private party applications to municipal boards.

• Day-to-day counseling
• Preparation of contracts for services and inter-municipal agreements
• Code revisions
• Oversight of project bidding, zoning and development, review and approval
• Representation at administrative hearings
• Zoning changes, variances, and site plans
• Special permit approvals and other land use applications