Mara Ginsberg Featured in Success Magazine, Ltd.

Success Magazine, Ltd., featured Mara Ginsberg as part of their Heroes series for their October 2008 issue. The article focuses on Mara's work as Founder and President of To Life!, a non-profit organization providing free breast cancer education and support services.

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Carr Public Affairs To Join Hinman Straub Advisors

Hinman Straub Advisors LLC and Carr Public Affairs today announced that the professionals and staff of Carr Public Affairs will join Hinman Straub Advisors, effective immediately. The newly combined staff will continue to provide strategic, regulatory and legislative counsel to both firms’ government relations clients at Hinman’s State Street location.

“We are extremely pleased that the Carr Public Affairs team will be joining Hinman. Over the past few years, our firms have worked closely together on a number of issues. Formalizing our collaborative efforts will provide our clients with a diverse talent base and a greater depth of representation,” Sean Doolan, principal at Hinman Straub, said.

“Teaming up with Hinman was a natural progression of the expansion of Carr Public Affairs’ client base,” James Carr, president of Carr Public Affairs said. “Complex legislative issues demand the dedication of knowledgeable, well-respected professionals and we know that our clients will benefit from the added dimension of expertise and excellence that Hinman brings to the table.”

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Cheryl Hogan Receives The Stanley A. Rosen Memorial Award for Pro Bono Service

The Stanley A. Rosen Memorial Award for Pro Bono Service is presented to an attorney who has demonstrated an ability to litigate a matter on behalf of a victim of domestic violence and shows the utmost professionalism and integrity in their dealings with the Court, litigants and attorneys, which are qualities exemplified by Stanley Rosen during his lifetime. Ms. Hogan has demonstrated through her work with The Legal Project that she is a tireless advocate for her clients. Her hard work and dedication to The Legal Project is inspiring.

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Lobbyist With Friends of All Stripes Joins Spitzer Staff

After several tumultuous months of scandal, political missteps and sinking poll numbers, Gov. Eliot Spitzer is adding an affable, well-connected Albany lobbyist to his inner circle to help shape strategy as his first year in office comes to a close.

The lobbyist, Bruce N. Gyory, will operate in a new position of senior adviser and will be heavily involved in reaching out to the Legislature, from which Mr. Spitzer has become increasingly estranged, and where Mr. Gyory is liked and respected on both sides of the aisle.

Mr. Gyory’s hiring is one of several personnel changes the governor will make in the coming days, in the first staff reshuffling since Andrew M. Cuomo, the attorney general, released a report in July faulting two top Spitzer aides for their efforts to stir up bad press about the Senate majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno.

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Hinman Straub Launches New Legislative Newsletter

Hinman Straub has launched the first edition of Plugged In @ Hinman Straub - a newsletter developed especially for our clients. For more than seventy years, Hinman Straub has been providing individual, institutional and corporate clients with a comprehensive array of legal and government relations services. This newsletter is just another way in which we hope to provide you with valuable information on events that are occurring in or around the State Capitol.

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Hinman Straub infuses community involvement into firm’s culture
Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York, Inc. September, 2006

Community involvement is so important to the law offices of Hinman Straub that the firm created an internal committee to coordinate it and ensure it remained a priority. Click here to read more.

Ex-bishop gets guardian, lawyer
By Carol DeMare, Albany Times Union, January 13, 2006

During a visit early last year, Broderick suffered a serious fall, was hospitalized and then moved into the Teresian House, Albany attorney B.J. Costello said. State Supreme Court Justice Thomas J. Spargo appointed Costello as Broderick's attorney at a hearing Thursday at the nursing home on Washington Avenue Extension. Click here to read more.

Guardianship issue is settled
By Jill Bryce, The Daily Gazette, January 13, 2006

Broderick and his family members "fully consented" to the priest’s appointment as legal guardian, according to B.J. Costello, a partner at the law firm of Hinman Straub, whom the court appointed Thursday as Broderick’s attorney. Click here to read more.

Law Beat
Albany Times Union, January 12, 2006

James T. Potter of Hinman Straub, who is also the Bethlehem town attorney, is the newly elected president of the Albany County Bar Association. Others elected were Surrogate's Court Judge Cathryn M. Doyle, president- elect; Patrick J. Higgins of Powers & Santola, vice president; David P. Miranda of Heslin, Rothenberg, Farley & Mesiti, treasurer; and Elena DeFio of Roemer, Wallens & Mineaux, secretary.

Lobbying: Report From Albany
By John Caher, New York Law Journal, January 9, 2006

Veteran Lobbyists Brace for a Wild 2006

Lobbyists are bracing for a hold-on-for-dear-life wild ride this year as the Legislature returns for its last session with George E. Pataki as governor. "In an election year, nobody wants to be in this town past May," said veteran lobbyist B.J. Costello, who expects a "fast and furious" start to the new year. Click here to read more.

Lobbyist, Attorney John F. Black Becomes Principal at Hinman Straub
Hinman Straub News Release, October 3, 2005

John F. Black, an experienced lobbyist, attorney, pension advisor and public employee negotiator, has joined Hinman Straub P.C. as a Principal in the firm’s Albany office. Read more here. Click here to read more.

Bond sale lifts school spirit
By Rick Karlin, Albany Times Union, Friday, May 13, 2005

More than three years after moving into its new home and after a series of setbacks, New Covenant Charter School has sold $16 million worth of bonds to pay for the building. Philip J. Murphy of Hinman Straub, PC in Albany, New York represented New Covenant in the issuance of the bonds by the City of Albany Infrastructure Development Agency. Click here to read more.

State loses fight over insurance rates
By James T. Mulder, Syracuse Post-Standard, Wednesday, April 7, 2004

The state's top insurance regulator had no authority to order Excellus to reduce some of the health insurer's double-digit health rate increases in 2002, the state Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. Bartley J. Costello III, a lawyer for Excellus, said the ruling clarified how premiums are set for individuals who purchase coverage directly from insurers. "The court found that in 1995, the Legislature and the governor established an objective method for insurers to determine appropriate, fair and efficient rates based on a formula that guarantees that the lion's share of the premium is spent on health care services for consumers," he said. Click here to read more.