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

KATHY N. ROSENTHAL, Partner

Kathy N. Rosenthal , Kathy N. Rosenthal , Kathy N. Rosenthal, a partner in Rosenthal & Markowitz, LLP since January 2001, concentrates in the areas of estate planning and estate settlement, Trust and Will drafting, elder law planning and residential real estate transactions, working with single persons and both married and non-married couples.

In addition to her private practice, since 1995 Kathy has been teaching Wills, Trusts & Estates as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Pace University School of Law. She is very proud that she was selected Adjunct Faculty Member of the Year by the students in 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005. Kathy also taught Wills, Trusts & Estates as an Adjunct Professor of Law at CUNY Law School from Fall 1989 through Fall 2001 and also co-taught a 12-credit Wills Clinic at CUNY Law School from Fall 1991 through Spring 1993. In addition, Kathy taught the Wills component of the BAR BRI bar review prep course in January 2004 for the February 2004 bar exam.

Kathy is the consummate teacher - in and out of the classroom. She loves to share information and wants to teach her clients about the laws relevant to their matters so that her clients will understand their documents and their estate plan or Medicaid plan.

Kathy has had and continues to have an active professional life outside of the practice as well.

Her current community work is extensive and remains diverse. Her latest achievement is her appointment to the Board of Advisors of the Westchester Community Foundation (WCF).

Concurrently, Kathy serves as Board member of the Westchester Women’s Bar Association Foundation, the charitable arm of the Westchester Women’s Bar Association and just completed a two-year term as Foundation Treasurer. She also serves as a Board member and Treasurer of the Westchester Public Private Partnership. Kathy also sits on the Pace Law School Board of Visitors as the representative of the WWBA.

Her prior community work also bears mentioning. In 2006, Kathy left the Board of the Women’s Enterprise Development Center, Inc., and as a Friend of Gail, the development arm of the Pace Women’s Justice Center which works to eradicate domestic violence. In June 2003, Kathy finished her second term as President of the Westchester Women’s Bar Association which was the culmination of thirteen years of officer and committee work on the WWBA. During the course of her career, Kathy has also volunteered at the Gay Men’s Health Crisis and helped create their Will drafting clinic in 1989, writing forms and supervising other attorneys.

A strong proponent of continuing education in the legal profession and the community, Kathy speaks frequently. She moderates the Pace Law School annual Elder Law update. She volunteers and speaks for the Pace Women’s Justice Center doing community education on estate planning. In 2010 she will teach the Pace New Directions program on Wills, Trusts & Estates, as she did in 2008 and 2009, to attorneys re-entering the work force. Kathy also spoke regularly for the Planned Giving Committee for the Arthritis Foundation, New York Chapter, Hudson Valley Branch until it closed and she won the Volunteer of the Year Award in 2002. She has lectured on various aspects of estate planning for the New York State Bar Association, the Pace Law School Continuing Legal Education program, the Family Law Center, and for many and varied community groups. Kathy wrote the SCPA Article 9 portion of the Matthew Bender, Surrogate’s Court Practice, which was published in Winter 1986.

In practice since 1978, Kathy still very much enjoys the work she does -- making order out of chaos and bringing information and comfort to her clients.

 

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