Admitted
1975, New York, U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York and U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 1981, U.S. District Court, Western District of New York; 1984, Massachusetts and U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts; 1992, U.S. Distr
Law School
Albany Law School of Union University, J.D., 1974
Law School Graduation Year
1974
College
State University of New York at Albany
Memberships
Albany County, Dutchess County, New York State (Member, Business Law Section, Bankruptcy Committee, 1994—), Massachusetts and American (Vice-Chairman, Committee on Economics of Law Office Management, General Practice Section, 1975-1976) Bar Associations; Capital Region Bankruptcy Bar Association (Director, 1993; Treasurer, 1994; President-Elect, 1995-1996; President, 1997); American Bankruptcy Institute (Member, General Practice Section; Bankruptcy Law Committee; Corporation Banking and Business Law Section, 1982—); Commercial Law League of America; Capital District Trial Lawyers Association; New York State Bankruptcy Creditors Association; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America.
Biographical
Co-Author, Motor Vehicle Certificates of Title in Multiple-State Transactions — The Out-of-State Lender Prevails Over the Trustee, Norton Bankruptcy Adviser, Issue No. 7, July, 1994; Should There Be A Fourth Option?, A Creditor's Perspective, American Bankruptcy Institute, 2000. Lecturer: Capital Region Bankruptcy Bar Association and Mid-Hudson Bankruptcy Bar Association, Pre-Filing Discussions with Principal Secured Creditors, 1992; New York State Bar Association: The Bankruptcy Code and New York Substantive Law, 1992; Chair and Moderator, Bankruptcy Law and Litigation for New York Practitioners, 1993; Chair and Moderator, Basics of Bankruptcy Practices, 1994; Business Law Section, Committee on Bankruptcy Law, Real Property Tax Claims in Bankruptcy — Practical Applications of Parr Meadows, 1994; Everything You Need to Know About the New Bankruptcy Reform Act, Annual Meeting, 1995; Chair and Moderator, Consumer Bankruptcy — A Primer, 1995; Commercial and Federal Litigation Section, Litigating and Working Out the Problem Loan, 1996; Chair and Moderator, Litigating in the Bankruptcy Court, 1996; New York State Association of Counties Legislative Conference, Making Counties a Priority Lien: The Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1994 Revisited, 1995; Twenty-Ninth Annual County Finance School, Sponsored by Office of the State Comptroller and New York State Association of Counties, Bankruptcy Issues for County Officials, 1995; New York State Conference of Mayors and Municipal Officials Annual Fall Training School for City and Village Officials, Bankruptcy and Real Property Tax Collection, 1995, Bankruptcy — Municipal Rights and Responsibilities, 1996; Ford Motor Credit Company National Attorney Conference, Interest Rate Issues Construing 11 U.S.C. §506(a) and 11 U.S.C. §1325(a)(5)(b), 1996; New York State Bankruptcy Creditors Association, Post-Confirmation Interest Rates in Chapter 13, 1996; Mid-Hudson Bankruptcy Bar Association, In Re Valenti, the Second Circuit Speaks on 11 U.S.C. §506 Valua