Pawling Business Lawyers

Mr. Westenhoefer is an attorney admitted to practice law in the state of New York. In 1997, he joined the U.S. Air Force, and in the years that followed, studied the Russian language at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center and lived and worked in Japan. As part of his regular duties as an airborne cryptologic linguist, he was a computer systems operator, a UNIX-based systems administrator, and a security manager in a sensitive compartmented information facility. He developed and maintained resources on his squadron’s classified intranet, supervised and trained individuals on computer systems, and revised the training program...

Allan Bloomfield is a bankruptcy attorney based out of Forest Hills, NY.

Cassandra H. P. Donovan is an accomplished Attorney with a comprehensive background in complex civil litigation. She utilizes her diverse professional background and legal experience to represent clients in various phases of the litigation process. Ms. Donovan’s practice currently focuses on business litigation, trusts and estate, family law, civil litigation and insurance defense. Ms. Donovan has an extensive complex litigation background. For more than a decade, Ms. Donovan defended and managed an extensive caseload, on behalf of major corporate clients, in the Upstate New York Asbestos Litigation. Furthermore, Ms. Donovan has successfully defended officers and directors of housing...

IRWIN G. KLEIN holds a B.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a J.D. degree from Vermont Law School, having graduated as a member of the Law Review. Irwin Klein is rated AV Preeminent (the highest rating for legal ability and ethical standards) by Martindale-Hubbell, the premiere worldwide directory of attorneys. He is a former prosecutor, having served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Queens County District Attorney’s Office. Additionally, he is licensed to practice in all of the courts of the State of New York, the United States Supreme Court and the United States District Courts for...

For more two decades, Steven's practice has included commercial litigation, bankruptcy litigation, complex litigation, long term disability insurance litigation, representing medical providers in no-fault arbitrations and litigations, real estate transactions and commercial transactions. With a professional degree in architecture, Steven also provides legal services for all aspects of architectural practice.

Steven received his Juris Doctorate from Thomas Jefferson School of Law and a Bachelor of Architecture from the New York Institute of Technology. While in school, Steven received American Jurisprudence awards in contracts and trusts and was selected for Who's Who Amongst American Law Students. Prior to founding Super Associates, Steven...

BS Economics, City College of New York, 1963
MILR, Cornell University, 1965
JD, cum laude, NYU, 1969
Editor, NYU Law Review

Mr. Palermo has over 35 years of diversified business experience including 25 years in the practice of Law. His professional career began at The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A., where he was a middle market lending officer for several years. After completing his MBA at Adelphi University, Mr. Palermo left Chase to take the position of Vice President , Finance for The Neil Automotive Group. He then returned to school full time on a full scholarship, earning his JD from Hofstra Law in December, 1993. Combining his business experience with his law degree, Mr. Palermo practiced corporate law at the New...

Sean J. McGowan is a partner in Kaufman McGowan PLLC, Long Island’s Corporate & Securities Law Firm™ and Corporate & Securities Counsel to the Cannabis Industry™. He is a leading corporate cannabis lawyer in New York and the USA and represents emerging growth, middle market and public companies and investment firms in their corporate, securities, financing, borrowing, merger & acquisition and other legal matters. Mr. McGowan is: - President of the Columbian Lawyers' Association of Suffolk County. - Secretary of the Confederation of Columbian Lawyers of New York State. - Member of the New York State Bar Association and its Cannabis Law Section. -...

Mr. Ahuja is a U.S. citizen born in India. He is admitted in the states of New York, Connecticut, Virginia, U.S. Tax Court, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, U.S. District Court; Southern District of NY, U.S. District Court; Eastern District of NY, and India. Mr. Ahuja received his education and experience both in India and the United States. Mr. Ahuja holds an LL.M. (International Business Law); an LL.M. in Labor Laws; LL.B. (JD); M.B.A. (Personnel Management & Labor Welfare); M.B.A. (Business Management); a Diploma in German language; a Postgraduate Diploma in Gandhian Philosophy, besides his M.A. (Major: International...

Engaged in private law practice in New York and Connecticut 1987-1997 and 2019 to date. Served as District Court Judge (1998), County Court Judge (1999-2018), Acting Family Court Judge (1999-2018) and Acting Supreme Court Justice (2006-2018) in Suffolk County, New York. Author of over 250 judicial reported and published decisions, official and unofficial, in multiple areas of the law.

Anthony H. Handal is an experienced patent and trademark litigator, who has worked as lead counsel in over 200 U.S. district court lawsuits for such clients as ADM, Estee Lauder, JVC, The London Times, Conair, SNPE, Nieman Marcus, Target and many other such companies with amounts at risk exceeding $2 billion. His first chair experience includes U.S. Supreme Court representations in copyright and patent cases. He has also obtained hundreds of patents for his clients, and provides clients with a wide range of counselling services in the intellectual property space.

Experienced Bankruptcy and Commercial Litigation Expertise

Now again in private practice, Jeff is an attorney and counselor-at-law providing private general counsel, legal crisis management, and dispute strategy and management services to individuals and families, real estate organizations, family-owned and closely-held businesses, the white collar justice community, and special situation and pro bono clients. For over 20 years Jeff served as managing attorney of a 20+ employee law firm headquartered in New York City, and then Westchester County, NY. Among other practice areas, the firm engaged in representation of family-owned/closely held businesses and their owners, business and real estate transactions, trusts and estates, and litigation. Jeff also served...

Stacy R. Klozow, Esq. practices in the areas of commercial litigation and plaintiff’s personal injury. In her practice of commercial litigation, Ms. Klozow represents plaintiffs and defendants in matters involving contract, real estate and business disputes. She also represents individuals who have suffered personal injury and financial loss in matters involving wrongful death, construction accidents, motor vehicle accidents, premises liability, assault and battery, and general negligence.