ATTORNEY PROFILES

Harriette M. Steinberg, Managing Partner
Latonia Early-Hubelbank, Partner 

HARRIETTE M. STEINBERG received her Juris Doctor degree from Hofstra University in 1981 and has been admitted to practice before the U. S Supreme Court, Courts of the State of New York, U.S. Tax Court, U.S. District Court for the Eastern and Southern districts of New York District of New York. She is a member of the New York State Bar Association; New York State Woman’s Bar Association; Nassau County Bar Association; the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys; and Nassau County Woman’s Bar Association. She is a past Director of the Nassau County Bar Association, where she chaired the Elder Law, Social Services, and Health Advocacy Committee for the 1992 and 1993 terms and the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee for 1999 and 2000 terms.

Prior to becoming an attorney, Ms. Steinberg worked as a fiduciary accountant for the period 1969-1981 with the firms of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, Reed & Priest, and Mudge, Rose Guthrie and Alexander. Indeed, it was the Senior Partners of the foregoing law firm who supported her decision to pursue a legal career and her law school admission.

Ms. Steinberg is currently a member of the New York Association of Collaborative Professionals, a member of the New York Family Law American Inn of Court. She is also the past Chair of the Nassau County Bar Association's Women in the Courts Committee. The Women in the Courts Sub-Committee on Matrimonial Reform helped to formulate the pilot project which was instituted in Supreme Court, and was designed to expedite pendente lite relief in some matrimonial cases coming before the Court. In addition, she, together with several matrimonial colleagues, formulated the Early Neutral Evaluation Program which is currently being used in Nassau. Ms. Steinberg has long been in favor of developing procedures to expedite the process of matrimonial litigation and has recognized the need to alleviate the adverse effects upon families, both financial and emotional, in the litigation of family disputes.

From 1993 until 1995, Ms. Steinberg was the adjunct Professor at Hofstra University where she taught Aging, Public Policy and the Law to graduate students. She has been asked by fellow attorneys on many occasions to act of-counsel on matters pertaining to trusts, estates, related tax matters and elder law. Ms. Steinberg has lectured at the Nassau County Bar Association; Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University, New York City; Mercy League, West Hempstead, New York; National Business Institute, New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury , New York; and at various seminars sponsored by the Nassau County Bar Association and the National Organization for Women. She is also a continuing education instructor at Nassau Community College and a faculty member of the Institute for Paralegal Education.

Ms. Steinberg was a member of the Board of Directors of the Family and Children’s Association (formerly Family Service Association) for over ten years, where she initiated an innovative public guardianship program designed for senior citizens of all economic backgrounds. This program will serve as a model for other nonprofit groups who are committed to pro-active intervention on behalf of seniors living and aging on Long Island. Ms. Steinberg was honored by Family and Children’s Association in 1998 for her leadership, guidance and outstanding support on behalf of the Community Guardianship Program.

She is also a participant in the Long Island Alzheimer’s Foundation (LIAF) Legal Advisory Board, which provides speakers for workshops and conferences, articles for a quarterly newsletter and advice direction for issues LIAF faces in serving the Alzheimer’s and related dementia community.

In March 1999, Harriette was presented with the Town of Hempstead Pathfinder Award in the humanitarian category in recognition of her philanthropic undertakings.

Distinction Magazine identified her as one of Long Island’s Most Influential Women by granting her Women of Distinction status for the year 2000. And finally, Harriette received a Year 2000 Achievers Award from the Long Island Center for Business and Professional Women in May 2000, the Visiting Nurses Associates of Long Island also recognized Ms. Steinberg’s achievements in 2000.

For the past seven years, Harriette has been studying alternate forms of dispute resolution and has recently opened her practice to collaborative divorce and family law matters. To support her work in this emerging field she has jointed the Board of the New York Collaborative Law Group and is a member of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals.

LATONIA EARLY-HUBELBANK graduated from Princeton University in 1989, earned her law degree from Hofstra University School of Law in 1992 and was admitted to the Connecticut State Bar in 1992 and the New York State Bar in 1993. She is admitted to Federal Court practice in both the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York. She has held various positions within the Nassau County Women's Bar Association, including President of the organization from June 2003 to June 2004, and was the 2001 recipient of the Virginia C. Duncomb award, recognizing people committed to furthering the advancement of women in the legal profession.

From 1995 to 1997, Ms. Early-Hubelbank served as a law guardian for children representing their interests in court proceedings. In 1998, she became a member of the first group of "Outstanding Alumni" honored by Farmingdale High School, in 2002 was honored by the Nassau County Girl Scouts Association during their 90th Anniversary celebration and was selected as a member of the 2003 class of the Long Island Business News Top Forty People under Forty. Her areas of concentration include matrimonial law, family law and adoptions.  In April 2003, she was honored by the Hofstra University Women's Law Group as a role model and for her achievements in the legal profession.  Ms. Early-Hubelbank has served on many boards, including that of the Nassau County Girl Scouts, Five Towns College, the Suffolk County Coalition against Domestic Violence; and serves as an alumnus interviewer for the Princeton University Admissions Committee.

Ms. Early-Hubelbank is a member of the Nassau County Women’s Bar Association, the Nassau County Bar Association, New York State Bar Association and the American Inns of Court Family Law Section.