Our Attorneys

Partners	Associates	Of Counsel
> Kathy N. Rosenthal	> Adrienne J. Orbach	> Simon H. Baker
> Linda Markowitz		> Stuart A. Rosenthal
		> Mary Lovett Nitsch

ADRIENNE J. ORBACH, Associate

Adrienne Orbach, is an associate at Rosenthal & Markowitz, LLP since July 2003.

Adrienne started on her second career, as a lawyer, in 1996 when she entered Pace Law School . She graduated Magna Cum Laude, honored during law school with the White Plains Bar Outstanding Clinical Student Award, a Revson Fellow at the New York State Capital Defenders office, and recognized by her peers at graduation with the Adolph Humboker Humanitarian Award. After graduating, she worked as a social justice fellow at the Greater Upstate Law Project at JJLES, a staff attorney at the Social Justice Center, an Adjunct Professor at Fordham Graduate School of Social Services and then with the Family and Child Interdisciplinary Center at Fordham Law and Social Work School at Lincoln Center. She is admitted to practice in all of the courts of New York State and Connecticut .

Adrienne focuses much of her legal talent on writing partnership agreements for a gay or other unmarried couple when the parties intend to co-mingle their assets so that if the couple separates or if one partner dies, there can be an appropriate plan for dividing their property. For those couples who have not adequately planned, she works to provide resolution of the issues which then arise under the more stressful situations. She has litigated numerous partition actions which are used to settle issues of title to real property when the owners cannot agree between themselves. She reminds us that all couples need to engage in planning before intertwining their lives and assets.

Adrienne graduated from Indiana State University in 1981 and worked for a number of years with the adult mentally retarded within group home settings. While working at St. Vincent 's Community Support Program ( CSS ) in Harrison, she began working on her MSW , graduating from Fordham University in 1988. As a social worker, Adrienne worked with various community programs working with people with AIDs and HIV+ and their families, and she has presented at numerous and varied conferences and on cable television.

Adrienne remains active in the legal community by serving as an Officer and on the Board of the Westchester Women's Bar Association, where she will finish her first one-year term as Treasurer for 2005-2006. Adrienne served on the diversity and membership task force of the Westchester County Bar Association, among many other committees.

Adrienne and her partner of 16 years share a home in Westchester County, and they have recently been bitten by the golf bug; you can often find them teeing off at one of the local county golf courses.

 

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