Section Program
Thursday, January 28, 2021
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Hold Them or Fold Them: The Future of Senior Attorneys in this Changing Legal Marketplace
Please join us for the presentation of the 2021 Jonathan Lippman Bro Award and a roundtable discussion, followed by our annual business meeting and elections.
Chairs
Section Chair
Anthony Enea
Enea, Scanlan & Sirignano, LLP
Program Chairs
Anthony Enea
Enea, Scanlan & Sirignano, LLP
C. Bruce Lawrence, Esq.
Boylan Code, LLP.
Not an MCLE Credited Program
Thursday, January 28, 2021
9:00 AM – 9:10 AM
Welcome and Introduction
Speaker
Anthony Enea, Esq. | Enea, Scanlan & Sirignano LLP, White Plains, NY
9:10 AM – 9:50 AM
Presentation of the Jonathan Lippman Pro Bono Award
Speaker:
Hon. Jonathan Lippman | Of Counsel, Latham & Watkins LLP, New York, NY
Recipient:
Scott Fein | Senior Partner, Whiteman, Osterman and Hanna, Albany, NY
9:50 AM – 10:00 AM
Break
New York State Bar Foundation Presentation
10:00 AM – 10:50 AM
Hold Them or Fold Them: The Future Role of Senior Attorneys in this Changing Legal Marketplace
This interactive session will be used to collect valuable information about the future of the 50+ section. The speakers will provide a background on the Section and discuss efforts to get others involved.
Speakers
Anthony Enea, Esq. | Enea, Scanlan & Sirignano LLP, White Plains, NY
C. Bruce Lawrence, Esq. | Boylan Code LLP, Rochester, NY
10:50 AM – 11:00 AM
Break
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Networking Reception
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Anthony J. Enea, Esq.
Enea, Scanlan & Sirignano
White Plains, NY
Mr. Anthony J. Enea has spent the past three decades protecting the rights of New York’s senior and disabled populations. He is a past chair of the New York State Bar Association’s Elder Law Section and president of the Westchester County Bar
Foundation. Named Westchester County’s Leading Elder Care Attorney at the 2013 Above the Bar Awards, Mr. Enea’s practice areas include elder law; Medicaid asset protection trusts; Medicaid applications (home care and nursing home); special needs planning; guardianships (Article 81 and 17-A); and wills, trusts and estates.
Mr. Enea has chaired/lectured several hundred continuing legal education programs and speaks regularly at public and private organizations across the region. Currently a guest contributor for About.com’s Assisted Living Section, he is also the former editor- in-chief of the “Elder Law Attorney” of the New York State Bar Association’s Elder Law Section and has contributed extensively to publications for the Westchester County and the New York State Bar Associations.
Mr. Enea is certified as an elder law attorney by the National Elder Law Foundation as accredited by the American Bar Association.* He is president of the Westchester County Bar Foundation and a fellow of the New York State Bar Foundation. Mr. Enea served as a past president of the Westchester County Bar Association and the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. He is a member of the Council of Advanced Practitioners of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and is on the Guardianship Advisory Committee of the Office of Court Administration for the State of New York.
Mr. Enea has been recognized with numerous peer-review designations including Westchester County’s Top 25 “Super Lawyers,” “Best Lawyer” (Best Lawyers in America, 2011-2018, and has been AV Preeminent peer-review rated through Martindale-Hubbell, since 2002. He was named Best Lawyers’ 2018 Elder Law “Lawyer of the Year” in White Plains and is a recipient of the Golden Harvest Corporate Award from the Westchester Public/Private Partnership for Aging Services for outstanding and lasting contributions to Westchester seniors. Mr. Enea received the 2018 Distinguished Service Award from the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, the 2016 Honorable Richard J. Daronco Distinguished Service Award from the Columbian Lawyers Association of Westchester County, and was honored with the Dr. Joseph A. Cimino Community Service Award at ArchCare at Home’s 2016 Hope Gala. He is a member of the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University’s Board of Visitors, Somers’ Board of Ethics, the Westchester Public/Private Partnership for Aging Services, and the Business Development Board of the Hudson Valley Bank.
C. Bruce Lawrence, Esq.
Boylan Code LLP
Rochester, NY
Mr. Lawrence heads Boylan Code’s Creditor’s Rights Practice Group. He has over 40 years of experience in the fields of debtor/creditor law, bank and commercial collections, business loan workouts, and bankruptcy.
Education
J.D., Dickinson School of Law at Pennsylvania State University (1969)
B.A., University of Rochester (1966)
Affiliations
Bruce is a past chair of the Monroe County Bar Association’s Bankruptcy Committee and serves on the New York State Bar’s Bankruptcy Committee.
Long active in the organized Bar, he is a Past President of the Monroe County Bar Association. He was Secretary of the New York State Bar Association, chaired the NYSBA’s President’s Committee on Access to Justice, was a member of that association’s Special Committee on Public Trust and Confidence in the Judicial System. Previously served in the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association, and the NYSBA’s House of Delegates and was Vice President for the 7th Judicial District for 6 years. He is also a past Chair of the New York State Council of Bar Leaders.
He has represented secured creditors, creditors committees, and bankruptcy trustees in such high profile cases as Midtown Plaza, Interco Systems, Bristol Harbor, Valentown Museum, Sykes Datatronics, Marjax, Conlon Industries and Paul Dean. He served for 20 years as a Bankruptcy Trustee in the Western District of NY.
Honors and Achievements
Bruce has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America (1989-2020) for his bankruptcy expertise, named Rochester Lawyer of the Year for Bankruptcy Litigation. Received the Monroe County Bar’s 2013 Redenbeck Award honoring his Professionalism and Community Service. He is a frequent lecturer for the New York State Bar Association and the Monroe County Bar Association in the fields of bankruptcy and debt collection.
Scott Fein, Esq.
2021 Jonathan Lippman Pro Bono Award
New York State Bar Association 50+ Section 2021
Scott Fein, Esq.
Partner, Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP
Albany, NY
Scott Fein is a partner at Whiteman Osterman & Hanna where he has been an attorney since 1983. Since joining the Firm, Mr. Fein has devoted his time to regulatory compliance and the defense of civil, criminal corporate enforcement matters and, public service.
Mr. Fein has served as Vice-Chair of the Governor’s Task Force on the Implementation of the Public Authorities Reform Act, a Member of the Court of Appeals Permanent Commission on Sentencing, Chair of the Board of Advisors of the Government Law Center at Albany Law School, Senior Advisor and Fellow of the State University of New York’s Rockefeller Institute of Government’s Center for Law and Policy Solutions (SUNY’s Public Policy Think Tank), Counsel to the New York State Archives Partnership Trust and Chair of the NYS Bar Association Annual Ethics and Civility Program (Albany).
He has been the principal editor and co-author of books including:
- Making a Modern Constitution: The prospects for Constitutional Reform in New York (2016)
- Is America Fulfilling Its Promise: Legal Protections for Immigrants (2019)
- Demographics Need Not Be Destiny: The Importance of Refugees to Communities to Upstate New York (to be published in March, 2021)
And, edited and co-authored volumes of the Government Law and Policy Journal, a joint publication of the NYSBA and Government Law Center at Albany Law School, including:
- New York State: A Laboratory for Innovative Social Policy
- New York State Public Authority Reforms
- The Protections in the New York State Constitution Beyond the Federal Bill of Rights
- One Hundred and Six Ideas for State Constitutional Change
- Rural Justice in New York State: Changes and Recommendations
Mr. Fein has received the New York State Bar Association’s (NYSBA) President’s 2006 Pro Bono Service Award, the National Law Journal’s 2006 Award for Pro Bono Service and the New York Law Journal’s Award for the most significant civil rights case of 2005 featured in the Jonathan Demme and Shawn Gallagher’s documentary Boys of the Blacklist.
Mr. Fein received his Juris Doctor from Georgetown University School of Law and Master of Law degree from New York University School of Law. Before joining Whiteman Osterman & Hanna, he served as Assistant Counsel to New York Governors Carey and Cuomo, and prior to that as a criminal prosecutor.
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