Agenda
- Equitable Distribution
- Maintenance & Counsel Fees
- Ethics & Professionalism
- Agreements & Stipulations
- Child Custody
- Family Court
- Child Support
- Pendent Lite Motions
- Evidence & Procedure
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Faculty
Timothy Tippins Esq.
Timothy Tippins Esq.Timothy M. Tippins, Esq. is an adjunct professor at Albany Law School and serves on the faculty of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology and on the Affiliate Postdoctoral Forensic Faculty at St. John’s University. He has also served as an Adjunct Professor of Forensic Psychology at Siena College. He is a private practitioner who has engaged in matrimonial and family law practice since 1975 and devotes his practice exclusively to serving as trial counsel and consultant to other family law practitioners on a nationwide basis, with special emphasis on the presentation and cross-examination of expert mental health testimony. Tippins has served in all major professional leadership positions in the New York family law community, including President of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers - New York Chapter, Chair of the NYSBA Family Law Section, and Chair of the NYSBA Task Force on Family Law. Tippins is a regular feature columnist for the New York Law Journal and is the author of the multi-volume treatise New York Matrimonial Law & Practice (West Publishing).
Company Name: MatLaw Systems Corp.
E-mail: tmtippins@matlaw.com
Lauren K. DeLuca has been engaged in private practice focused on complex matrimonial cases, custody litigation, and enforcement proceedings since graduating from Albany Law School. She has extensive experience with evidentiary hearings and depositions, net worth preparation and analysis as well as discovery management. She has partnered with Cynthia J. LaClair, Esq.(formerly Cynthia J. Tippins, Esq.) to form LaClair & DeLuca, PLLC, a practice located in Albany, New York, a practice limited to family and matrimonial law. Ms. DeLuca is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the Albany County Bar Association. She has published in various professional journals, including the Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and the New York City Law Review
Pat Hennessey is a partner in Aronson Mayefsky & Sloan in New York City. Since 1987, she has tried a
nd argued appeals in numerous cases involving complex equitable distribution and support issues and emotional and delicate issues involving child custody. She is particularly respected for the calm and wise counsel that permits her to settle the large majority of her matters without extensive court involvement.
A 1979 New York University Law School graduate, where she achieved the rare and doubly prestigious honors as both a Root‑Tilden Scholar and Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Fellow, Ms. Hennessey began her career as federal court antitrust litigator at Kaye Scholar Fierman Hays & Handler, before turning her full attention to matrimonial and family law in 1987. She is a 1976 graduate of Hampshire College and was the first director of the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program at Hampshire in the early 1980s. She has several publications in matrimonial law, including as the co‑author of “Is The Law Male?”, Chicago‑Kent L. Rev. (1994) with NYU Law Professor Sylvia Law and “Valuation of Property in Marital Dissolutions,” 23 ABA Family Law Quarterly 339.
Ms. Hennessey has been an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law, Columbia University Law School and Cardozo Law School. She has lectured at widely bar associations, (including at the annual meeting of the American Bar Association) and at law schools, including Yale, Columbia and New York University. She has served as Co‑Chair of the Matrimonial Committee of the Westchester Women’s Bar Association. She has achieved an “AV Preeminent” rating from Martindale Hubell, the highest possible rating in legal ability and ethical standards every year for more than 11 years.
Patrick M. Connors is the Albert and Angela Farone Distinguished Professor in New York Civil Practice at Albany Law School where he has taught New York Practice and Legal Ethics since 2000. Commencing with the January 2013 supplement, Professor Connors became the author for the treatise Siegel, New York Practice. The publication’s sixth edition, “David D. Siegel & Patrick M. Connors, New York Practice (6th ed. 2018),” was released in March, 2018 and the seventh edition is expected to be released in early 2026. The treatise has been cited in thousands of reported decisions and has been called “The Bible” for litigation in New York State courts.
He received his B.A. degree from Georgetown University and his J.D. degree from St. John’s University School of Law, where he was an editor of the Law Review and research assistant to Professor David D. Siegel. Upon graduation from St. John’s in 1988, Professor Connors served as a personal law clerk to Judge Richard D. Simons of the New York Court of Appeals until 1991. From 1991 until May of 2000 he was an associate and then member of the litigation department at Hancock & Estabrook, LLP, in Syracuse, New York.
Professor Connors is also the author of the McKinney’s Practice Commentaries for CPLR Article 22, Stay, Motions, Orders and Mandates, Article 23, Subpoenas, Oaths and Affirmations, Article 30, Remedies and Pleading, and Article 31, Disclosure. He also authored the Practice Commentaries for the former New York Rules of Professional Conduct and several articles in the Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act. He is currently an author of the New York Practice column and the annual Court of Appeals Roundup on New York Civil Practice, which are published in the New York Law Journal. From 1992 through 2003, he was a Reporter for the Committee on New York Pattern Jury Instructions (“PJI”), the panel of New York State Supreme Court Justices that drafts and oversees the frequent revisions of the standard jury charges in civil cases. His publications have been cited in hundreds of reported cases.
He was a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Professional Ethics from 1996 through 2016. He served on the New York State Attorney Grievance Committee for the Fifth Judicial District from 1997 until 2000. He was the Reporter for the New York State Bar Association's Special Committee on the Code of Judicial Conduct, which published a report recommending substantial amendments to New York’s Code of Judicial Conduct. He was also the Reporter for the New York State Bar Association's Task Force on Non-lawyer Ownership of Law Firms. He is a member of the Office of Court Administration’s Advisory Committee on Civil Practice and served as a member of the New York State Bar Association’s CPLR Committee from 2003 through 2007.
Professor Connors is a frequent lecturer at continuing legal education seminars on recent developments in New York Practice, professional ethics and legal malpractice. He has also served as an expert witness and consultant on issues pertaining to attorney ethics, legal malpractice, and civil procedure
Elliott Scheinberg authored two treatises: Contract Doctrine and Marital Agreements in New York (NYSBA, 5th ed., 2 vols, 20230 and The New York Civil Appellate Citator (NYSBA, 3rd ed., 3 vols, 2025). He has also authored book chapters in other treatises. His practice is limited to matrimonial appeals and consultations on appellate procedure. He is also an expert witness in contract law as it pertains to marital agreements. He is a featured columnist in the New York Law Journal, which articles have been cited in McKinney’s Consolidated Laws of New York Annotated and New York Civil Appellate Practice, Davies, Stecich, Gold (West). Mr. Scheinberg has written amicus curiae briefs to the Court of Appeals on behalf of the American Academy of Matrimonial Layers. His many lectures include presentations in the First, Second and Third Departments and bar associations.
Mr. Scheinberg is a member of and lecturer for NYSBA’s Committee on Courts of Appellate Jurisdiction. He also serves on the Board of Managers of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and co-chairs its Amicus Curiae Committee; he is co-chair emeritus of its CLE Committee. He is on NYSBA’s Executive Committee of the Family Law Section and is co-chair emeritus of the section’s Amicus Committee.
He has been named in Marquis’ Who’s Who in American Law, Marquis’ Who’s Who in America, Best Law Firms, U.S. News and World Reports, Best Lawyers and New York Super Lawyers.