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The complex and sophisticated nature of our work requires the highest employment standards. All of our attorneys must meet demanding standards of education, ability, training, experience, personal good judgment, integrity and character.
Our attorneys are admitted to all of the Courts of New York and appropriate
Federal Courts and are members of the American, New York and Warren County Bar Associations. Many are also admitted to practice in other states, including Maryland, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.
Our attorneys and legal assistants attend seminars and continuing legal education courses, review legal journals and periodicals, belong to professional associations and continually strive to refine their professional skills.
Complementing our attorneys is an experienced and dedicated team of paralegals, legal secretaries and support personnel. Each of our paralegals and secretaries is particularly accomplished in certain specific areas of our practice and most of our
Staff has been with the firm for several years.
PRINCIPALS
Origin: Born in New York (1954)
Education: Brown University (B.A.. 1978)
Boston University (J.D. 1982)
Practice Areas: Municipal law,
planning, land use and zoning, environmental law, municipal finance.
Profile: Mark is the firm's principal
municipal and environmental attorney and represents various towns in Warren, Washington,
Saratoga and Essex
Counties. His practice includes
extensive participation in
regulatory proceedings before
the Adirondack Park Agency, Lake
George Park Commission and New
York State Department of
Environmental Conservation. He
is author of the chapter
entitled "Environmental Law -
New York State Environmental
Quality Review Act ("SEQRA")" in
the book Pitfalls of Practice
published by the New York State
Bar Association in 1993 and
2002. Mark has lectured about
municipal, environmental,
planning and zoning law matters
at numerous seminars throughout
the State and is an adjunct
faculty member of Skidmore
College, where he teaches the
course "Environmental Legal
Issues" in the Environmental
Studies Program.
Mark came to the Adirondack region
over twenty years ago to combine
his professional interests with
his avid enthusiasm for outdoor
sports and recreational
activities. He is a past member
of the Board of Directors of the
Feeder Canal Alliance and the
Town of Queensbury Recreation
Commission and was one of the
founders of the Queensbury Land
Conservancy.
Origin: Born in Glens Falls, New York (1961)
Education: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (B.S. 1983)
University of Michigan (J.D. 1986)
Practice Areas: Estate planning and administration, business and corporate law, real estate, taxation, municipal finance.
Profile: Bob joined
Miller, Mannix after practicing with a "boutique" tax firm specializing in estate and business planning for domestic and foreign clients in New Haven, Connecticut for several years. He is our principal real estate and tax planning, wills, trusts and estates attorney.
Bob is a past president and current vociferous member of the local Kiwanis Club chapter. He is active in local community events such as the Glens Falls Crop Walk and church activities, including the "Walk to Emmaus" retreat.
Origin: Born in Las Vegas, Nevada (1963)
Education: Towson State University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1985)
George Washington University (J.D. with honors, 1989)
Practice Areas: Municipal, real estate, litigation, labor and employment law.
Profile: Before joining
Miller, Mannix, Schachner & Hafner in 1999, Cathi spent eight years practicing law in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania where she focused on labor and employment law, credit union representation and general practice. She began her legal career in Washington, DC working for the Federal Department of Labor.
Cathi lives in the Village of Argyle and serves on the R. Stiles Renovation
Committee and is active in the
Argyle community. Cathi serves on
the Board of Directors of the Warren County Bar Foundation.
Michael J. Hill
Origin: Born in Bad
Kreuznach, West Germany (1956)
Education: Holy Cross College (B.A., 1982)
Northern Illinois University College of Law (J.D. cum laude, 1999)
Practice Areas: Municipal, real estate, civil litigation, estate planning, business law.
Profile: Prior to joining
Miller, Mannix, Schachner &
Hafner, Mike worked in commercial property management and for a large mortgage bank. In his spare time he enjoys hiking in the Catskill and Adirondack Mountains with fellow members of the Adirondack Mountain Club. In addition, he likes to explore sites of regional historical interest.
ASSOCIATES
Leah Everhart
Origin: Born in
Albany, New York (1978)
Education: State
University of New York, Potsdam
(B.A., 2000);
Albany Law School (J.D., 2003)
Practice Areas: Municipal, real estate
and civil litigation.
Profile: Leah is a member
of both the Warren County Bar
Association and the Saratoga County
Bar Association and was recently
elected Treasurer of the Adirondack
Chapter of the Women's Bar
Association of the State of New
York. Leah's interests are quite
diverse and she includes traveling
among her favorite activities.
Leah has traveled to two continents
and hopes to someday make it to all
of them at least once.