The Life sciences industry is a key part of the Buffalo Niagara Community. To help insure that start-up life, sciences companies can become successful commercial ventures in Western New York, Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman LLP (LMWF), collaborated with Buffalo Niagara Enterprise (BNE) to create the LMWF-BNE Field Guide for Starting and Growing a Life Science Company in Western New York. To access the Guide, please click here
Erie County Attorney Cheryl Green resigns and joins Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman LLP while seeking election to Erie County Supreme Court. For more information, please click here
Former New York Attorney General and U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York, Dennis C. Vacco, joins Lippes Mathias. For more information, please click here
US News & World Report has ranked Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman LLP a Tier 1 (top tier) law firm for real estate law.
Gerald S. Lippes, William E. Mathias Scott E. Friedman. Gregory T. Ivancic and Kevin J. Cross were identified in as New York Super Lawyers 2010.
Christian M. Lovelace has been appointed to a two year term as a member of the University of Buffalo's Alumni Association Board of Directors.
Dennis C. Vacco, was recently the subject of an article in the Buffalo Law Journal on his return to the Buffalo Legal Community. For a link to the Article, please click here
Dennis C. Vacco, the Republican attorney general from 1995 to 1998, was quoted in the New York Times article regarding Paterson's Call for Inquiry Hands Cuomo Political Quandry... saying, "however, that he would jump at the opportunity to take on such a crucial case..." For a link to the Article, please click here
Scott E. Friedman has published Accentuate the Positive in the Summer 2010 issue of Family Business Magazine. Friedman's article, co-authorized with Dr. Dan Baker, explores how family owned businesses can benefit from new science of positive psychology. For a link to the Article, please click here
Alan S. Wexler was selected for inclusion in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers In America in the specialty of Real Estate Law.
Self-Insured Employers Turn to
Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman LLP for Help
Recently, employers who are or were participants in workers' compensation group self-insurers trusts have received notices from the New York State Workers' Compensation Board ("Board") informing them that the trusts of which they are or were members have accumulated severe deficits and that the Board will be looking to those employers to make up those deficits. In some instances, the Board has even sent 45-day assessment notices to employers, accompanied by a form agreement that the Board has demanded that the employers sign, an agreement under which the employers waive all their rights to contest these assessments in court. For more information, please click here
Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman LLP is once again named a "Top Corporate Law Firm in Buffalo" by Corporate Board Member Magazine.
New York LLC's and LLP's New Annual Fee Charges
New York has changed the rules regarding the annual filing for Limited Liability Companies (LLC's) and Limited Liability Partnerships (LLP's). These changes are effective for the tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2008. For more information, to see our Tax Alert please click here
Blaine S. Schwartz has been elected to a two year term as a member of the Board of Governors of the Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo.
Alan S. Wexler was identified in the real estate field as New York Super Lawyer 2009.
Gerald S. Lippes (business/corporate) and William E. Mathias (banking) were recognized by their peers in Buffalo Business First's 2008 Who's Who in Law.
Scott E. Friedman joined the Board of Directors for the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy (governing body of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery).
Scott E. Friedman recently published an article in Business First, "A More Effective Use of Lawyers: An Introduction to P/E Max," which recommended an approach for clients to optimize working with their legal counsel.
Mary Engler Roche was elected to the Foundation Board of Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, Inc.
Scott Friedman spoke on March 27, 2008 at the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences. The topic was Growing a Startup Life Sciences Company in Western New York.
