Admitted
1979, New York and U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York; 1982, U.S. Supreme Court; 1993, U.S. District Court, Western District of New York; 1996, U.S. District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York
Law School
Cornell University, J.D., 1978
Law School Graduation Year
1978
College
Hamilton College, B.A., cum laude, 1974
Memberships
Albany County, New York State (Member, Consumer Financial Services Committee, 1994—) and American (Member: Section of Corporation, Banking and Business Law; Committee on Consumer Financial Services, 1982—; Vice Chairman, Subcommittee on Relation to State Laws, 1989-1993, Chairman, 1993-1997; Member, Committee on Commercial Financial Services, 1983—) Bar Associations; American College of Consumer Financial Services Attorneys (Fellow, 2000—; Governing Committee Member, Conference on Consumer Finance Law, 1998—); New York Manufactured Housing Association, Inc.; Commercial Law League of America; American Association of Creditor Attorneys (Director, 1990-1993; Executive Committee Member, 1990-1991); National Association of Retail Collection Attorneys (1993—); National Association of Residential Construction Lenders; New York-New Jersey Consumer Finance Association (1995—); Manufactured Housing Institute (Member, Finance Lawyers Subcommittee, 1997—); National Home Equity Mortgage Association (1998—); Mortgage Bankers Association of America (1998—); Capital Region Bankruptcy Bar Association.
Biographical
Author: Enforcing Security Interests in Personal Property in New York State, National Business Institute, 1985; Summary of the Provisions of the New York State Motor Vehicle Retail Leasing Act, CarLaw, August, 1995. Co-Author: Mobile Homes Legally Defined: Issues for the Mobile Home Lender to Consider, 45 Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report 312, 1991; The Law of DIDA Section 501, 54 Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report Vol. 122 (Spring, 2000). New York State Editor CarLaw, 1995-2002; New York State Editor Houselaw, 1997—. Contributing Editor, “Truth in Lending” (American Bar Association 2000); Truth in Lending Disclosures for Construction and Home Improvement Loans, Construction Lending Reporter, Vol. 3 (June 2002); The New York Part 41 Predatory Lending Rules and Remedies, 56 Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report 87 (Fall and Winter 2002). Instructor, Business Law, State University of New York at Albany, 1984.