White Plains law firm McCarthy Fingar LLP is adding a municipal law and land use group that will begin taking clients in November.
The practice group will work with clients or municipal entities in developing strategies for real estate projects where there is interplay of zoning and other land use, eminent domain or development issues. The group”™s attorneys also will appear in court and before zoning and planning boards on behalf of private clients and governmental units.
“We’re excited to have this talented group join the firm,” McCarthy Fingar co-administrative partner Lisa Newfield said in a statement. “All of them are outstanding attorneys and their wealth of experience in planning, zoning and environmental law processes, as well as the political arena in which land use approvals are processed and approved, will greatly enhance the services we offer to our clients.”
Clinton B. Smith will lead the group. Smith, who earned his law degree from Columbia Law School in 1977, served as New Castle town supervisor from 1996 to 1999. He has served on the Westchester County Planning Board and the Teatown Lake Reservation board of trustees, and is a member of the New York City Watershed Protection and Partnership Council, East of Hudson Advisory Committee.
Attorneys Lester D. Steinman and Daniel Pozin will serve as partners, with attorney Anna Georgiou also in the municipal law and land use group. All four attorneys recently joined McCarthy Fingar after working for Wormser, Kiely, Galef & Jacobs LLP in White Plains.
