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Paul Michael Pochepan
10.0 (1 Peer Review)
Lancaster, NY Elder Law Attorney with 35 years of experience
Elder, Bankruptcy, Estate Planning and Social Security Disability
Syracuse University College of Law
With nearly three decades of experience practicing Bankruptcy law and Social Security law in Buffalo, Paul Pochepan is able to help consumers facing financial hardships and disabled individuals and their dependents. He has helped many Western New York consumers navigate the bankruptcy system under chapter 7 or chapter 13. He also helps Buffalo-area residents apply for Social Security Disability (SSD) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or appeal Social Security Administration decisions denying, reducing or revoking benefits. He has accumulated a wealth of knowledge regarding the multiple medical impairments afflicting disability claimants and dealing with the medical profession to secure the...
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Russel Morgan
Rochester, NY Elder Law Lawyer
Free ConsultationOffers Video ConferencingVideo ConfElder, Estate Planning, Probate and Real Estate
New York Law School
Our founding member and principal, Russel Morgan has concentrated in commercial and contract litigation, trust and estate planning, business and personal asset protection, wealth preservation and dynasty succession planning. Russel has also assisted clients with all forms of commercial and personal transnational work, including the preparation, re-structuring and litigation of various types of contracts.
Our estate law office also includes; Eldercare planning, nyc healthcare proxy, beneficiary in a Will, Medicaid planning trusts, mltc plan, Medicaid planning strategies, help with drafting wills, revocable and irrevocable trusts.
Russel Morgan was raised in Brooklyn, New York and has remained loyal to his origins...
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Jeffrey Rheinhardt
Rome, NY Elder Law Attorney with 42 years of experience
Elder, Estate Planning, Health Care and Probate
Albany Law School
Jeff has over 25 years of experience as an attorney and is the principal at Radley and Rheinhardt. He is a Certified Elder Law Attorney (CELA)* through the National Elder Law Foundation (NELF) and is an active member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA). Jeff also serves as a delegate to the Elder Law Section of the New York State Bar Association. He is a member of the Herkimer County Bar Association and a frequent seminar presenter and contributor to local publications on issues affecting seniors and the disabled. *Certified Elder Law Attorney by National Elder...
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Jessica M. Peraza
Buffalo, NY Elder Law Attorney with 8 years of experience
Free ConsultationElder
SUNY Buffalo Law School
Jessica Peraza is Counsel working with the firm’s Trusts & Estates Department. She focuses her practice on Estate Planning and Administration, Medicaid and Long-term Care Planning, and Wealth Management. As a law student, she interned for the Hon. Barbara Howe in Erie County Surrogate’s Court and worked in the Public Benefits Unit of Neighborhood Legal Services. Her previous experience includes residential foreclosures, public and private sector labor law, contract negotiations, probate matters, third party credit collections, and representation of clients in administrative hearings and arbitrations.
Ms. Peraza attended St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York where she graduated with a...
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Debra J. Cohn
Vestal, NY Elder Law Attorney with 16 years of experience
Elder, Divorce, Estate Planning and Family
Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
Debra Cohn is the Managing Partner of Tully Rinckey PLLC’s Binghamton office. She focuses her practice on Family and Matrimonial Law, including Divorce, Child Support, Child Custody, Child Visitation, Spousal Support and Paternity. Debra has over 10 years of experience and skill representing clients in a vast array of topics relating to family and matrimonial law. She is dedicated to providing exceptional representation and the best possible outcomes for her clients.
Debra is a member of the New York State Bar Association and Broome County Bar Association. She has an AV Preeminent Rating from Martindale-Hubbell, the highest possible rating. Debra received...
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J. Michael Kelleher
Lancaster, NY Elder Law Attorney with 53 years of experience
Elder, Estate Planning and Real Estate
University of Notre Dame
J. Michael Kelleher graduated cum laude from St. Bonaventure University with a B.A. in 1967, and received his legal education at the University Of Notre Dame, graduating in 1970. Mr. Kelleher was Town Justice for the Town of Lancaster from 1975 to 2014 and is Senior Counsel at Tiveron Law since joining the firm in 2011.
Mr. Kelleher has focused his practice in commercial and residential real estate as well probate, estate planning, and corporate law since 1970. He is a member of the Real Estate and Estate Practice and Procedure Committees of the Erie County Bar Association.
Mr. Kelleher has lectured...
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Stephen Silverstein
Amherst, NY Elder Law Attorney with 43 years of experience
Offers Video ConferencingVideo ConfElder and Estate Planning
State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law
Stephen R. Silverstein concentrates his practice in the areas of estate and disability planning, estate administration, guardianships and elder law.
He is a graduate of the University of Rochester and the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law. He is a former bank trust officer, where he worked on administration of estates, trusts and employee benefit plans.
Mr. Silverstein is a member of the Bar Association of Erie County Surrogate’s Court Committee and serves as the Committee’s Recording Secretary. He is also a member of the Bar Association of Erie County Elder Law Committee and...
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Dennis Charles Gaughan
Hamburg, NY Elder Law Attorney with 40 years of experience
Free ConsultationElder, Appeals, Bankruptcy and Business
New York Law School
We chose to remain a small law office to provide personal, dedicated and aggressive service to our clients. My office costs a few dollars more but excellent service takes time and strategy. Offsetting our higher fees we have payment plans. We have seven lawyers working together to get the best solutions. As a small firm we call upon all areas of the law to form a comprehensive strategy and plan. As in a game making the right move determines the outcome of the case. A divorce case is often helped by a bankruptcy or our tax law knowledge. We create...
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Albert B. Kukol
Vestal, NY Elder Law Attorney with 33 years of experience
Offers Video ConferencingVideo ConfElder, Estate Planning, Probate and Real Estate
Albany Law School
Practicing since 1991 in Binghamton, Owego, Ithaca, Cortland, Norwich, Broome County, Tioga County, Tompkins County, Chenango County, Delaware County, and Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, as well as remotely via the internet.
Particularly interested in planning to minimize the erosion of assets due to common threats that we all face, such as incapacity, long term care costs, nursing home expenses, how to distribute your estate, keeping legacy camps in the family, planning for a disabled child, income and estate taxes, probate, and creditors claims.
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Andrew Finkelstein
Syracuse, NY Elder Law Lawyer
108 West Jefferson Street, Suite 503
Syracuse, NY 13202
Free ConsultationElder, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home and Personal Injury
Brooklyn Law School
Mr. Finkelstein is the Managing Partner of Finkelstein & Partners. He has become a noted consumer activist through his representation of injured individuals against corporate wrong doers and irresponsible parties. An accomplished litigator, Mr. Finkelstein has represented Plaintiffs in wrongful death and catastrophic personal injury cases arising from defective drugs, dangerous consumer products, automobile, bus and motorcycle accidents, dog bites, fall down accidents and air craft crashes. He has successfully handled dozens of multi-million dollar cases, including a $9 million dollar recovery for catastrophic injuries from a construction accident, $3.5 million dollars for injuries sustained in a car...
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Darren M. Swetz
Buffalo, NY Elder Law Lawyer with 27 years of experience
Free ConsultationElder, Estate Planning and Real Estate
University of Akron
For over 15 years Darren Swetz has been helping individuals and business navigate a range of legal issues to help them achieve financial success, economic stability or a fresh start. At Tully Rinckey PLLC he is a Partner who represents New Yorkers with the preparation of wills, trusts and advanced directives; Medicaid planning; and real estate transactions and leases.
Prior to joining Tully Rinckey PLLC, Mr. Swetz served as Managing Partner at Kelly & Swetz for more than a dozen years, where he focused his practice on wealth management and asset preservation. Before that he operated...
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Linda Stravalaci-Grear
Buffalo, NY Elder Law Attorney with 29 years of experience
Elder, Estate Planning and Probate
University of Akron School of Law
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As the daughter of Italian immigrants, the values of hard work, education, and integrity were instilled at a young age. In two decades of practicing law, I have learned not only the mechanics of Elder Law, Estate Planning, Trusts, Probate, and Guardianships, and but also the importance of compassion and understanding in dealing with clients who are enduring emotionally difficult times. I receive immense satisfaction from serving clients in their greatest times of need. What I love most about my job is helping people. Many times a client comes to...
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Raymond H Caso Jr.
Williamsville, NY Elder Law Lawyer with 26 years of experience
Elder, Estate Planning and Real Estate
State University of New York - Buffalo
As a Senior Associate in Tully Rinckey PLLC’s Real Estate Law practice, Raymond focuses his practice on commercial and residential real estate financing transactions, commercial real estate transactions and development, title review and commitment preparation. He represents developers in subdivision acquisitions, and he represents lenders in commercial and residential mortgage transactions, as well as commercial and residential purchasers and sellers.
Raymond has extensive experience drafting residential and commercial contracts of sale, leases and mortgage documents including, but not limited to: commitment letters, promissory notes, mortgages, security agreements, assignment of rents and leases, environmental compliance and indemnity agreements, unlimited guarantees and UCC-1...
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Ruth P George
Williamsville, NY Elder Law Lawyer with 23 years of experience
Elder, Estate Planning, Probate and Real Estate
SUNY Buffalo Law School
I really enjoy spending time with clients and taking a personal approach to assisting them. I grew up wanting to be a ballet dancer and spent most of my time in the ballet studio. I started a professional ballet career, but, ended it after a major injury requiring surgery. I have learned we all go through tough times and experiences and life certainly throws us curveballs. But, I find the journey we take and our continual growth is what is most important. Although I am no longer a ballet dancer, I feel the training I...
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Cynthia Ann K Manchester
Whitney Point, NY Elder Law Attorney with 32 years of experience
Offers Video ConferencingVideo ConfElder, Estate Planning and Personal Injury
Syracuse University College of Law
Cynthia Ann K. Manchester has over 25 years of experience in the handling of personal injury cases, including car, motorcycle and trucking accidents, slip or trip and fall accidents, wrongful death cases, sexual abuse cases and other complex personal injury claims in both state and federal court. In addition, she routinely represents clients in estate planning, Medicaid planning and estate litigation.
She regularly represents clients in the Binghamton, Whitney Point, Greene, Owego and Cortland, New York areas and serves clients throughout Broome, Tioga, Cortland, Tompkins and Delaware county.
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Frederick Putnam Davies
Syracuse, NY Elder Law Lawyer with 38 years of experience
Elder, Estate Planning, Probate and Real Estate
Syracuse University College of Law
Frederick P. Davies is the founder and senior partner of the Davies Law Firm, P.C., and a noted speaker on Estate Planning, Living Trusts, Long Term Care, Medicaid and Taxes. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Vermont in 1982 and a law degree (Juris Doctor) from the Syracuse University College of Law in 1985. Following graduation, Mr. Davies was admitted to practice law in all the state courts of New York and Connecticut. He is also admitted to practice law before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Tax...
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Alycia Kathryn Kimmel
Vestal, NY Elder Law Attorney with 5 years of experience
Offers Video ConferencingVideo ConfElder, Estate Planning, Probate and Real Estate
Syracuse University College of Law
Alycia K. Kimmel practices in the areas of estate planning and estate administration, elder law, real estate and not-for-profit matters. She is admitted to practice in the states of New York and Florida. She practices primarily in Broome County, as well as the following surrounding counties: Tompkins, Tioga, Chemung, Steuben, Chenango, and Schuyler.
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Deborah Wolf Miller
Ithaca, NY Elder Law Lawyer with 34 years of experience
(607) 277-0272
416 N. Tioga Street
[MAILING: P.O. Box 538]
Ithaca, NY 14851
Elder, Estate Planning, Probate and Real Estate
Rutgers School of Law-Camden
Deborah is a solo practitioner in Ithaca, NY, and continues to practice in NJ. Her practice focuses on estate administration and estate planning, and real property transfers. She was previously a partner with the firm of Miller and Miller in Chenango County, staff counsel for the Chenango County Department of Social Services, and an editor for Gann Law Books, a NJ legal treatise publishing company. Prior to moving to NY in 1996, she was an associate with Garrigle and Palm, an insurance defense firm in NJ specializing in construction defect defense, products liability defense, insurance coverage, and...
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Lana Sturdevant
Vestal, NY Elder Law Attorney with 14 years of experience
Elder, Energy and Estate Planning
Brooklyn Law School
My legal career has been entirely born and cultivated at Levene Gouldin & Thompson, LLP (“LGT”), where I started out as a real estate paralegal and title searcher in 2002. After attending law school and taking both the NY and PA bar exams, I settled into LGT as an attorney. I came in with a solid understanding of real estate, which has developed into an interest in working through complicated title issues for title insurance purposes in both states. However, I’ve been lucky enough to expand my practice in various directions, spending roughly one-half of my time...
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Tyler J. Threehouse
Olean, NY Elder Law Lawyer with 9 years of experience
Offers Video ConferencingVideo ConfElder, Estate Planning and Probate
SUNY Buffalo Law School
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Jamye L. Lindsey
VESTAL, NY Elder Law Lawyer with 22 years of experience
Offers Video ConferencingVideo ConfElder, Estate Planning and Probate
Syracuse University College of Law
Jamye L. Lindsey has nearly 20 years of experience representing clients in elder law, trust and estate planning and administration matters. She routinely handles matters ranging from preparation of basic and essential estate planning documents to complex asset protection plans.
Jamye works with clients and their families in Broome County and in surrounding counties including Tioga County, Delaware County, Chenango County, Cortland County, Otsego County, Chemung County and Tompkins County.
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W Ross Scott
ANDOVER, NY Elder Law Lawyer with 27 years of experience
Free ConsultationOffers Video ConferencingVideo ConfElder, Communications, Criminal and Energy
SUNY Buffalo Law School
Summary: For the last twenty-two years I have been a country lawyer dealing mostly with the lives, rights, and problems of rural people. For the preceding thirty years, I had a career as a software engineer, communications engineer and high technology consultant at all levels of government in areas of energy, environment, national security, and foreign affairs.
Employment History: 1997 - Present: Attorney & Counselor at Law, The Ross Scott Law Firm, Andover, NY.
Focus on complex and first impression environmental issues, energy, technology, and Constitutional law, but also serving a broad local clientele as both counselor and litigator.
Experience at...
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Jeffrey Francis Voelkl
WILLIAMSVILLE, NY Elder Law Attorney with 31 years of experience
Elder, Estate Planning, Probate and Real Estate
University of Akron School of Law and Boston University School of Law
With an impressive career roster, and a recognized leader in the local community, the other principal attorney at Voelkl Law is Jeffrey F. Voelkl, Esq., LL.M. His experience in New York State law is an asset to every one of the Voelkl Law clients.
Voelkl is a member of the New York Bar Association, Erie County Bar Association, Volunteer Lawyers Project, Aid to Indigent Prisoners Society, New York State Defenders Association, Admission to Bar Committee, Young Lawyers Committee, and Justice Court Committee. He was also elected as Village Justice for the Village of Williamsville (2003) and was appointed Acting Justice of...
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Michael David Dezik
Niagara Falls, NY Elder Law Lawyer with 19 years of experience
Elder, Estate Planning and Social Security Disability
Albany Law School
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Robert S. Temple
East Syracuse, NY Elder Law Lawyer with 36 years of experience
Elder, Bankruptcy, Business and Estate Planning
Syracuse University College of Law
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Michael Alan Gold
Niagara Falls, NY Elder Law Lawyer with 51 years of experience
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Terrence Whelan
Watertown, NY Elder Law Attorney
Free ConsultationElder, Family, Foreclosure Defense and Landlord Tenant
Rutgers School of Law-Newark
Worked 41 years for legal aid offices in Watertown New York.
Managing Attorney.
Free legal representation in all areas of Poverty Law and Public Benefits:
Public Assistance
Social Security
Unemployment Benefits
Family Law
Foreclosure Defense
Eviction Defense.
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Lisa J. Allen
Williamsville, NY Elder Law Attorney with 33 years of experience
Elder and Estate Planning
SUNY Buffalo Law School
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Amanda Leigh Giannone
Vestal, NY Elder Law Lawyer with 9 years of experience
Elder, Estate Planning and Real Estate
Syracuse University College of Law
Amanda L. Giannone practices in the areas of estate planning and estate administration, including contested estate administration matters, elder law and long term care planning, and real estate matters. She practices in Broome County, and as well as the following surrounding counties: Tompkins, Tioga, Chemung, Steuben, Chenango, and Schuyler.
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Stephen Zastrow
Youngstown, NY Elder Law Lawyer with 18 years of experience
Elder, Estate Planning, Real Estate and Tax
Stetson University College of Law
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Jason C. Lamb
Camden, NY Elder Law Lawyer
Elder, Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Estate Planning
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Robert Paul Merino
Niagara Falls, NY Elder Law Attorney with 51 years of experience
Elder, Business, Personal Injury and Real Estate
An Attorney with 40 years of experience ready to help you .
Former City and County Judge with experience ranging from trials to wills an estates and all types of business transactions.
An experienced civil and criminal practitioner with an significant success rate in actual trials.
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Paul Pimpinella
Utica, NY Elder Law Lawyer with 21 years of experience
Elder, Business, Estate Planning and Real Estate
Paul Pimpinella is the managing partner of Compson & Pimpinella, PLLC. He is a member of the Trusts, Estates and Elder Law sections of the Oneida County Bar Association, and the New York State Bar Association. Mr. Pimpinella is the principal owner of Compson & Pimpinella, PLLC, having joined the firm in 2009.
Mr. Pimpinella currently concentrates his practice in the fields of Estate Planning, Medicaid Planning, Wills and Trust Law, Elder Law, Estate/Trust Administration, Business Succession Planning and Real Estate.
Mr. Pimpinella is a graduate of the Berkshire School, received his Bachleor of Arts from Siena College and his Juris Doctorate...
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Charles Engelbrecht
Rome, NY Elder Law Lawyer with 43 years of experience
Elder, Business, Divorce and Estate Planning
Albany Law School
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Alyssa M Barreiro
Vestal, NY Elder Law Attorney with 31 years of experience
450 Plaza Drive
Vestal, NY 13850
Elder and Health Care
Syracuse University College of Law
A native of Huntington, New York, and a resident of New York's Southern Tier for over 30 years, in private practice focusing on health care law, guardianship and general litigation.
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Frank Ralabate
Buffalo, NY Elder Law Attorney with 54 years of experience
Elder, IP and Personal Injury
Harlan Bruce Gingold
SYRACUSE, NY Elder Law Attorney with 53 years of experience
Elder, Arbitration & Mediation, Civil Rights and Estate Planning
Syracuse University College of Law
Richard Gray Compson
Clinton, NY Elder Law Attorney with 55 years of experience
Elder, Business, Estate Planning and Real Estate
University of Miami School of Law and University of Miami School of Law
Herbert Hirsch Heim
East Syracuse, NY Elder Law Lawyer with 69 years of experience
Elder
Syracuse University College of Law
James P. Harrington
Buffalo, NY Elder Law Attorney with 54 years of experience
Elder, Business, Criminal and Estate Planning
SUNY Buffalo Law School and SUNY Buffalo Law School