Retired judge heads new practice team at White Plains firm
Recently retired Westchester County Surrogate Judge Anthony A. Scarpino Jr. will head an expanded trust and estates practice group at DelBello Donnellan Weingarten Wise & Wiederkehr LLP, the White Plains law firm recently announced.
Joining the firm with Scarpino are attorneys Steven P. DeRicco, Frank J. Gobes and Vincent C. Travagliato.
- Vincent Travagliato
- Frank Gobes
- Steven DeRicco
- Anthony A. Scarpino Jr.
DeRicco, a Greenwich, Conn., resident, served 21 years as the lead Surrogate”™s Court litigator with Whitman, Breed, Abbott & Morgan at the firm”™s Manhattan, White Plains and Greenwich offices.
Gobes, a Scarsdale resident, founded the Law Offices of Frank J. Gobes PC in White Plains in 2006 and previously practiced at the New York City firms of Ruskin Moscou Faltischek and Graubard Miller. The attorney specializes in estate planning, probate and Surrogate”™s Court litigation.
Travagliato, a Chappaqua resident and formerly a practicing certified public accountant, started The Travagliato Law Firm, a boutique estate and trust firm, in Chappaqua in 2010. He previously ran the Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management estate planning strategy team, was a director with Barclays Wealth and an attorney at Brown & Wood LLP
Scarpino, a North Castle resident, is re-entering private practice after serving 30 years in the judiciary. A former special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, he began his judicial career in 1984 when he was appointed associate City Court judge in his hometown of Mount Vernon. He was elected Mount Vernon city judge the next year and became senior city judge in 1986.
Elected a Westchester County Court judge in 1988, Scarpino at 37 was the youngest county judge in Westchester history. A year later, he was appointed acting Supreme Court justice and in 1993 was elected to the state Supreme Court for the Ninth Judicial District. As Westchester County Surrogate, a post to which he was elected in 2000 and re-elected in 2010, he was the sole judge for estate cases in the county.
“The perspective I have gained from having served on the bench for so long will benefit our clients,” Scarpino said in the announcement. “In our planning practice, our drafting will minimize or avoid future disputes like the ones I routinely saw and when matters are in dispute, we will be able to more efficiently resolve them by identifying the best path.”
Alfred E. Donnellan, managing partner at the White Plains firm, said the new team of lawyers will give the firm “the capability to serve the entire metropolitan area, including Connecticut.”