William J. Nugent

Mr. Nugent is a graduate of Binghamton University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology, and Fordham University School of Law. He was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1999. Mr. Nugent concentrates in estate planning, estate administration and probate, elder law and real estate. He has a wide range of experience in the preparation of wills and trusts; administration and probate proceedings; estate litigation; preparation of estate and fiduciary income tax returns; preparation of fiduciary accountings; elder law and Medicaid matters; transactional real estate; and corporate and limited liability company formation and related matters. Mr. Nugent is a member of the New York State Bar Association Trusts & Estates Section and the American Bar Association.

Gary R. Steinberg

Mr. Steinberg is a cum laude graduate of Brooklyn College and a cum laude graduate of Vermont Law School where he served as a member of the Vermont Law Review and was appointed Managing Editor. He was admitted to the New York Bar and to the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York in 1977. Following admission to the Bar, Mr. Steinberg furthered his legal education in the post-graduate LL.M. program at New York University School of Law.

Mr. Steinberg concentrates in real estate, real estate financing and commercial transactions. He has extensive experience in sales and acquisitions; the preparation of condominium offering plans and the registration, development and sale of condominium projects; leasing; representation of financial institutions and borrowers in commercial lending transactions, loan restructuring and workouts and deed-in-lieu transactions. His diverse background also includes real estate development, construction and architectural agreements; representation of cooperative and condominium boards; real estate tax abatement and exemption matters and an array of other general real estate transactions. Mr. Steinberg also handles the formation, operation, sale and acquisition of business organizations and general commercial transactions. He has, by invitation, addressed several organizations on various real estate matters. Mr. Steinberg is a member of the New York State Bar Association and its Real Property Law Section, serves on the Advisory Board of a major national title insurance company and has served on the Board of Trustees of the Lexington Schoool & Center for the Deaf, the largest school for the deaf and hard of hearing community in New York State.

Thomas O. Rice

Mr. Rice served as president of the now more than 78,000 member New York State Bar Association, the nation’s largest voluntary bar association, from 1999 to 2000. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1969, and subsequently, to the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, United States Circuit Courts of Appeal for the Second and Eleventh Circuits, United States Tax Court, and Supreme Court of the United States.

Mr. Rice has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at St. John’s University School of Law, Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, and Long Island University Graduate School of Business Administration.

Mr. Rice is a graduate of Fordham University, St. John’s University School of Law, and New York University School of Law from which he received an LL.M. He concentrates in corporate and commercial, banking, real estate, and trusts and estates law. He has substantial experience in financial institutions regulatory compliance, the structuring of complex financial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, all aspects of real estate acquisition, ownership and financing, and planning the preservation and transfer of wealth.

In addition to his service as president, Mr. Rice served as treasurer and as a district vice president of The New York State Bar Association. He is also a member of the Nassau County Bar Association and a former assistant district attorney for Kings County.

Mr. Rice maintains a commitment to various community organizations, including the Catholic Child Care Society of the Diocese of Brooklyn, where he served on the board of trustees, and the executive committee of the Brooklyn Diocese’s wills and estates planning program. He previously served as a member of the Board of Directors of The New York Bar Foundation. He is also a former member of the Council of Regents of St. Francis College, Brooklyn, and has served as a member of the boards of trustees of the Brooklyn Bar Association, Xaverian High School and The Long Island Philharmonic Orchestra.

Diana Centrella Prevete

Ms. Prevete graduated magna cum laude in 1979 from St. John’s University, where she majored in Political Science and Public Administration and in 1981 from St. John’s University School of Law. She was admitted to the New York Bar in 1982 and to the U.S. District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. Ms. Prevete concentrates in zoning, land use, real estate, commercial transactions and civil litigation. From 1982 through 1991, she served as Assistant Town Attorney, Chief Deputy Town Attorney and Town Attorney of the Town of North Hempstead, New York. In those capacities, she defended personal injury, property damage, civil rights, official misconduct and employment discrimination claims for the Town, which was self-insured. As Town Attorney, she supervised a staff of six attorneys. In addition to her personal injury and property damage defense experience, her varied experience also includes environmental, municipal and zoning matters and commercial and general litigation. She is a member of the New York State and Nassau County Bar Associations and has also served as a member of the Town of North Hempstead Board of Ethics.

Bruce W. Migatz

Mr. Migatz is a graduate of Boston University and St. John’s University School of Law. He was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1976 and to the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York. In addition to trial and appellate work, including personal injury, commercial and criminal matters, Mr. Migatz concentrates his efforts in municipal and zoning law and serves as General Counsel to numerous co-ops and condominiums and is the Village Attorney for the Village of Asharoken. He is a member of the Nassau County and New York State Bar Associations, New York State Trial Lawyers Association and American Association for Justice (formerly known as the Association of Trial Lawyers of America). Mr. Migatz is a former associate adjunct professor at Nassau Community College, former Chief Deputy Town Attorney for the Town of North Hempstead and former Village Attorney for the Incorporated Village of Manorhaven. He has been a guest lecturer at St. John’s University School of Law, New York State Building Officials Conference, Building Inspectors Association of Nassau County and The Long Island Chapter of A.I.A.

Articles authored by Bruce W. Migatz

• The Answer to When a Private Road can Become A Public Street by Prescription
  Nassau Lawyer, December 2007
• When Does A Private Road Become A Public Street By Prescription?
  Nassau Lawyer, December 2007
• No “Do Overs” for Zoning Boards of Appeals
  Nassau Lawyer, May 2005
• Uniformity, Not a Blow, to Zoning Laws
  Nassau Lawyer, September 2003
• The What, When and What If of Board of Appeals’ Findings of Fact
  Nassau Lawyer, April 2003

Arthur L. Colozzi

Mr. Colozzi is a graduate of Queens College of the City University of New York, where he majored in accounting, and St. John’s University School of Law. He was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1985, and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. He concentrates in real estate, corporate and commercial matters and has extensive experience in a broad range of transactions including sales and acquisitions of multi-family and commercial properties, commercial leasing transactions, real estate development and joint venture transactions, construction contracts, formation of business organizations, preparation of shareholder agreements, limited partnership agreements and limited liability company operating agreements, corporate mergers and acquisitions, construction and permanent real estate loan transactions, loan workout and restructuring transactions, tax-exempt bond mortgage financing transactions (including “80/20” and IDA financing transactions), preparation of cooperative and condominium offering plans and other general real estate, corporate and commercial transactions. He also concentrates in tax matters including individual, partnership and corporate income taxes, mortgage recording tax and NYS and NYC realty transfer taxes. Mr. Colozzi is a member of the Taxation Sections of the New York and American Bar Associations.

Vincent A. Albanese

Mr. Albanese is a graduate of the Duke University School of Engineering, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering; St. John’s University School of Law; and New York University School of Law, where he earned a post-graduate LL.M. degree in taxation. He was admitted to the Connecticut Bar in 1992, the New York Bar in 1993 and to the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.

Mr. Albanese concentrates in real estate, corporate, commercial and trusts and estates matters. He is experienced in a broad range of transactions including sales and acquisitions of multi-family and commercial properties, office and retail leasing transactions for landlords and tenants, and real estate financing transactions, including residential and commercial construction loans and mortgage loans, for lenders and borrowers; formation of business organizations, preparation of shareholder agreements, limited partnership agreements and limited liability company operating agreements; and individual estate and business succession planning, including the preparation of wills, trust agreements and buy-sell agreements. He is a member of the New York State and Nassau County Bar Associations.

Joseph R. Albanese

Mr. Albanese is a graduate of Brooklyn College and New York University School of Law and was admitted to the New York Bar in 1958. He is also admitted to the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and to the U.S. Court of Claims, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Albanese is the managing partner of the firm and concentrates in estate planning, estate and trust administration, real estate financing, sales and leasing transactions and corporate matters. His experience includes representation of several major New York commercial and savings banks in connection with the closing of commercial and residential mortgage loans.

Mr. Albanese is a member of the Business Advisory Board of The First National Bank of Long Island. He has served as general counsel and a member of the Board of Directors of a publicly held corporation and currently serves as general counsel to several closely held business corporations. Mr. Albanese is a past President of the Queens College Speech & Hearing Center, and served as a member of its Board of Directors. He was appointed by the Governor of the State of New York and served as a member of the Council for the State University of New York College of Technology at Farmingdale, now known as Farmingdale State College. Mr. Albanese is a member of the North Shore Child and Family Guidance Association and the Nassau and New York State Bar Associations.