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Does a festival permit issued by the City of Buffalo give the Italian Festival Organizers the right to restrict free speech? HoganWillig attorney, Steven M. Cohen, participates in a debate on Channel 2.

HoganWillig is proud to announce that we won silver honors in the Large Business Category for Business First's "Best Places to Work" competition. We are among a group of 73 elite local companies in Western New York that were featured in the March issue of Business First. This is the fourth year in a row that HoganWillig has placed. We are proud of our employees and grateful to our management who promote a healthy work/life balance for all our employees.

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz has tapped former congressman John LaFalce to serve as chairman of the Erie County Industrial Development Agency and replaced a total of three board appointees.

HoganWillig, a full-service law firm with offices in Amherst, Buffalo, Lancaster and Lockport is pleased to announce that associate Erica M. Moore has been admitted to the New York State Bar. Ms. Moore earned her J.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo where she also graduated, cum laude, with a BA in both Psychology and History. Ms. Moore has been a law clerk at HoganWillig since 2010 and will now be joining their Matrimonial and Family Law Department which is the largest of its kind in WNY.

HoganWillig, a full service law firm with offices in Erie and Niagara counties, is pleased to welcome Kevin J. Miller, Esq. Mr. Miller earned both his J.D. and M.A. in Economics from the State University of New York at Buffalo and has obtained his Accredited Estate Planner ® and Certified Financial Planner ™ designations. He most recently was an Assistant Vice President of the Financial Services Group at M&T Bank. Mr. Miller will be focusing his work in HoganWillig's Estate Planning & Asset Protection Department where he will provide comprehensive estate planning for sophisticated and complex individuals and business clients.

HoganWillig is pleased to announce that associates Emily M. Cobb, Daniel D. Day, Katherine V. Markel and Jeffrey B. Novak have been admitted to the New York State Bar.

Texting, Tweets & Facebook: The New Tools of Divorce Courts. Nelson Zakia, Chair of HoganWillig's Family Law Department, gives married social media users a lot to think about.

HoganWillig's Estate Department represented two siblings in a hotly contested and litigated estate. The siblings were alleged out-of-wedlock children of the decedent. Our position was that the decedent had a long-standing relationship with our clients' mother, even though he was married with marital children. Although the decedent had not completed a genetic blood test during his lifetime, we were able to have genetic testing completed of the known marital children against the DNA of the out-of-wedlock children to show evidence of a genetic link between all of the children.

Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession, has named Thomas R. Cassano as the "Buffalo Area Best Lawyers Family Lawyer of the Year" for 2011.

We are pleased to announce that HoganWillig has won silver in the medium business category of the Best Places to Work in Western New York. This is a testament to the hard work and dedication of all the staff and management here at HoganWillig.

HoganWillig is pleased to announce that Corey Hogan, Diane Tiveron, Nelson Zakia and Kevin Mahoney have been recognized in the 2009 New York Super Lawyers Upstate Edition.

HoganWillig is pleased to welcome Cheryl A. Aloi, who will focus her practice in our Matrimonial and Family Law Department.

HoganWillig is pleased to announce its merger with the law firm of Lorenzo and Cohen.This merger marks the most significant growth in the firm's history as we crest the 30-attorney marker. HoganWillig is suburban Western New York's largest full service law firm with 31 attorneys and a total staff of 90 employees.