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Firm: Vandewater & Vandewater
Po Box 112 , Poughkeepsie , New York 12602
Practice Areas: Municipal , Probate , Real Estate , Trusts, Real Estate
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Firm: Marco Caviglia, Esq.
301 Manchester Rd, #201 , Poughkeepsie , New York 12603
Practice Areas: Criminal Defense, Divorce, Personal Injury, General Practice, Probate
Marco Caviglia has been a trial attorney for 45 years, most recently a Felony Bureau Chief at the Ulster County District Attorney's Office in NY, now again in private practice since 2023. He is a graduate of Colgate University and Albany Law School at Union University . He is admitted to the New York Bar and the Bar for the Federal Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. He has served as Chief Assistant to the Dutchess County Public Defender, Assistant District Attorney in Dutchess County, and as County Legislator of Dutchess County. He has also served as Deputy Town Attorney for the Town of Poughkeepsie and Special Counsel to the Town of Wappiner Falls.. Marco Caviglia is a Diplomate of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy in the teaching of trial skills to attorneys. He is one of the few attorneys in New York State that is 35-b Board Certified to try capital cases and has been lead counsel in four death penalty cases. Mr. Caviglia served as both Arbitrator on the Second Department Appellate Division panel for attorney fee disputes as well as for contract claims referred from court. He has served as a lecturer in the Continuing Legal Education for attorneys in area of Personal Injury for the New York State Bar Association in Manhattan and in Criminal Law for Dutchess County. He is also the former Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Dutchess County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and a board member . He served as a Commissioner of Elections for Dutchess County, and is a former Commissioner of the Town of LaGrange Fire District.. Mr. Caviglia has served as an Adjunct Professor at SUNY New Paltz in the subjects of Criminology and Deviant Behavior, and is a former Adjunct Professor in Paralegal Studies and the Department of Criminal Justice at Marist College, and the Department of Criminal Justice at Dutchess County Community College, and has authored several articles on legal subjects. Mr. Caviglia was also both the host of "Legal Brief," a radio law program, and a columnist for a similarly titled weekly newspaper column, and often appeared on the television show "The Opinion." He is also an actor in the independent film industry, and has been featured in a number of films.. As a former judicial candidate, he was rated as "Highly Qualified" to serve as a Family Court judge in 2011 by the NYS Governor's Bipartisan Screening Committee and "Highly Qualified" by the Dutchess County Bar Association. In 2010, he was also found "Highly Qualified" for the County Court judgeship by the Dutchess County Bar Association. In both instances, he was found "Qualified" by the Independent Judicial Election Qualification Committee of New York State (IJEQC), the highest ratings awardable at that time. He was personally endorsed by Governor Andrew Cuomo for Family Court Judge.
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Firm: McCabe & Mack LLP
63 Washington Street , Poughkeepsie , New York 12602
Practice Areas: Trusts and Estates, Adult Guardianship, Advance Directives, Aged and Aging, Ancillary Probate, Condominium Association Law, Condominium Conversions, Condominium Development, Condominium Law, Conservatorship, Contested Trusts and Estates, Contested Wills, Decedents Estates, Elder Care, Elder Guardianship, Elder Law, Estate Administration, Estate Litigation, Estate Planning, Estate Planning for Parents of Handicapped Children, Estate Planning for the Disabled, Estate Planning for the Elderly, Estate Planning for Unmarried Couples, Estate Settlements, Family Trusts, Family Wealth Transfer, Fiduciary Law, Fiduciary Liability, Fiduciary Litigation, Guardian Ad Litem, Guardianship, Guardianship Administration, Guardianship and Conservatorship, Homeowners Association Law, Incompetency Proceedings, Inheritance, Land Acquisitions, Land Sales, Land Use, Living Trusts, Living Wills, Medicaid Planning, Medicare and Medicaid, Personal Planning, Pet Trusts, Powers of Attorney, Probate, Probate Administration, Probate Litigation, Probate Taxation, Real Estate, Real Estate Contracts, Residential Real Estate, Residential Real Estate Acquisitions, Residential Real Estate Sales, Special Needs Trusts, Subdivisions, Surrogates Court Practice, Trust Administration, Trust Investment, Trust Litigation, Trust Planning, Wills, Wills and Probate, Zoning Law, Zoning, Planning and Land Use, Zoning Variances