Media Advisory

“Beyond Ozzie and Harriet: Representing Non-traditional Couples in the Paterson Era,” at New York Law School, Friday, November 21
Date: Friday, November 21, 2008

Description: The Tax & Estate Planning Society at New York Law School will host a daylong program on an emerging issue for New York lawyers—representing same-sex couples in the context of New York’s recognition of out-of-state same sex marriages. Panels will include issues that New York lawyers now need to understand when advising non-traditional couples about elder law; parental rights; estate, financial, and insurance planning; and marriage, cohabitation, and divorce.

Time: 8 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.

Location: Room A300, New York Law School, 47 Worth Street (between Church and West Broadway), New York, NY 10013.

Price: Free admission for matriculating students. Registration required for transitional and non-transitional CLE credit. $75 cost for all attorneys. Members of the media may attend for free, please e-mail LaToya Nelson at latoya.nelson@nyls.edu for registration.

Speakers:

Keynote Speaker:
• The Honorable Renee R. Roth, Surrogate of New York County Surrogate

Current Developments:
• New York Law School Professor Arthur Leonard, frequent writer for Gay City News.

Elder Law:
• Professor Peter Strauss, co-director of the Elder Law Clinic at New York Law School
• David Cutner, Esq., who writes a monthly column for THRIVEnyc on Elder Law issues

Parental Rights:
• Anthony Brown, Esq., Heads the Nontraditional Family and Estates Law Division of McKenna, Siracusano & Chianese

Marriage and Divorce:
• Bettina Hindin, Esq., Matrimonial Litigator
• Michelle Kahn, Esq., Chairperson of the New York State Bar Committee on LGBT People and the Law
• Allen Drexel, Esq., Hogan & Hartson

Estate Planning:
• New York Law School Professor William LaPiana

The event is sponsored by Signature Bank and the Stonewall Law Students’ Association at New York Law School.