Above the Bar Awards 2013

Known as the “Academy Awards” of the Westchester legal profession, the Above the Bar Awards is co-sponsored by Citrin Cooperman, Pace Law School, Westchester County Business Journal, Westchester County Bar Association and the Westchester Women”™s Bar Association.

 

Citrin Cooperman

The Above The Bar Award was co-created by Alan G. Badey, managing partner of Citrin Cooperman”™s White Plains office, and the Westchester County Business Journal.

“The award was created to recognize the outstanding accomplishments of the top lawyers of Westchester County for their contribution to the profession and to the community,” Badey said. “All the winners and nominees have represented the highest standards of excellence in the legal community and we congratulate them all.”

Citrin Cooperman (citrincooperman.com) is the 27th largest accounting firm in the United States and the third largest in Westchester County providing assurance, tax, business advisory, valuation and forensic services. The firm has been providing accounting and consulting services in Westchester for more than 20 years.

The firm”™s accountants and advisers have deep experience in many industries and areas, including legal, health care, marketing, technology, architecture and engineers, restaurants, franchising, financial services, real estate, entertainment, staffing and executive search, charter schools, nonprofits and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.

Founded in 1979, the firm has offices in White Plains, Norwalk, Conn., Manhattan, Philadelphia and Springfield, N.J. Citrin Cooperman is an independent firm associated with Moore Stephens. Additionally, the firm is affiliated with Citrin Cooperman Wealth Management LP (ccwmlp.com), which offers clients in-depth personal financial planning, independent fee-based investment advisory services, and insurance brokerage services. Follow Citrin Cooperman on Twitter @CitrinCooperman.

 

Pace Law School

Pace Law School has more than 7,000 alumni throughout the country and the world, and is consistently ranked among the nation”™s top three programs in environmental law. On its White Plains campus, it offers Juris Doctorate programs and the Master of Law degree in environmental law, including the nation”™s first graduate-level programs in climate change and land use and sustainable development, and comparative legal studies, and a Doctor of Law in environmental law. The School of Law is part of Pace University, a comprehensive, independent and diversified university with campuses in New York City and Westchester County.

For more information, visit law.pace.edu.

 

Westchester County Bar Association

The Westchester County Bar Association, established Feb. 11, 1896, is a not-for-profit corporation with a voluntary membership of more than 2,200 lawyers. The purpose of the association is to promote the ends of justice, to cultivate jurisprudence, to afford access to the courts to all who seek redress, to facilitate the administration of justice, to elevate the standards of integrity, honor, competence and courtesy in the legal profession and to participate with all members of society in seeking and perfecting the common good.

The Westchester County Bar Association provides attorney, affiliate and law student members with opportunities to help shape our legal community and to maintain the high standards of the legal profession. Members are kept informed by a monthly newsletter, regular mailings, web postings, emails and by the semi-annual publication of the Westchester Bar Journal.

 

Westchester Women’s Bar Association

The Westchester Women”™s Bar Association (WWBA) was founded in 1974 and is currently one of the largest chapters of the Women”™s Bar Association of the State of New York. The WWBA has more than 650 male and female attorneys and judges working together through over 20 standing and 37 ad hoc committees.

The company mission is to promote justice for all, regardless of sex; to advance the social, economic and legal status for women through the law; to expand opportunities for women and to raise the level of competence and integrity in the legal profession.

The WWBA is a dynamic group of over 650 lawyers in Westchester County. They are a bar association not of women, but for women and issues of importance to women and children. The WBBA attracts, educates and inspires attorneys interested in advancing legal issues involving women and all those who are protected, fostered and nourished by women.