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It didn’t take Kelly Gusmano long to find her legal specialty. She has always worked in trusts and estates, mainly helping clients qualify for Medicaid insurance coverage. “I fell in love first year of law school with property law. It’s ...

“I’m a creature of habit,” attorney Langston D. McFadden acknowledged at the start of a recent interview. “I like to plan everything. I like to be completely organized. I like consistency and don’t like change,” said McFadden, 46, a partner ...

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Jennifer Aronson-Jovcevski always knew she would be a lawyer, but she had to figure out what practice area to focus on. “I always knew that I wanted to go to law school, but I didn’t want to go directly from ...

After graduating from Union College with a history degree, Kyle Riter considered two career options: teaching or law school. Although he gave teaching a shot, his earlier exposure to the legal profession with then-state Supreme Court Justice William P. Polito ...

Trusts and estates law has a reputation for being a rather dull and static practice area. But Graham Leonard, an associate at Harter Secrest & Emery LLP, considers the field “quite a dynamic practice.” Lawmakers in some states are considering ...

She’s traveled the globe, and spent a decade in the nation’s capital, including a stint working for a prestigious international law firm, but when Mary Moore and her husband started to raise a family, they came home to Rochester. “It ...

Thomas F. Walsh decided on a career in environmental law just as the practice area was first emerging. A Syracuse native, the managing director of the Rochester office of Barclay Damon LLP received a bachelor of science degree in 1977 ...

Ever since he took a constitutional law class at Allendale Columbia School, there was never any real doubt about Peter J. Gregory’s career choice. Inspired by the class and the head of the upper school, who was a former attorney, ...

Katerina Kramarchyk was pretty much set on becoming a doctor, until she realized she would have to dissect a cadaver in medical school. So in her junior year at Stony Brook University, after re-evaluating her talents and interests, Kramarchyk decided to become ...

Danielle Ponder is sure her clients’ stories have influenced her songwriting. “Soul music is something you feel,” Ponder has said. “It gives you goosebumps.” The lawyer/singer/songwriter has a following that spans the globe. If you have seen her perform live ...

When Thomas Stander and his wife Sally bought their house in Fairport, Elton John’s version of “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” had just topped the Billboard charts, the Vietnam War was drawing to a close and the Cadillac Seville ...

Engineer, attorney and counselor at law Aleksandar Nikolic grew up in Toronto and is eligible to practice in both Canada and the U.S. He recently joined the Rochester Intellectual Property Law Association board of directors and is a member of ...