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Colleen A. Dooley is admitted to practice in New York. She received her education at SUNY Brockport, graduating magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in and her Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, at Thomas M. Cooley Law School (Lansing, MI). Colleen is a member of the New York State Bar Association and Albany County Bar Association.
Her practice areas include estate planning (Wills, Power-of-Attorney, Health Care Proxy, Living Wills, Trust planning), estate probate & administration, real estate, business transactions, not-for-profit formations, and title examination.
Colleen is a former Managing Partner for Partners in Dance (a re-grant program receiving funding from NYS Dance Force and NYSCA); a guest artist and on the advisor board for Nacre Dance Company; a volunteer stage manager and company photographer for Maude Baum & Co./eba Dance Theater; and was “Big Sister” with Big Brothers Big Sisters, Capital Region from 2008-2013. She is currently a volunteer foster home with Karma K-9 Rescue, Inc. (Albany, NY).
From law school to the present her objective has been to assist her clients in identifying and realizing their estate planning and business goals. Prior to graduating law school, she participated in the Sixty Plus Elder Law Clinic (Lansing, MI), where she assisted clients in preparing their wills, probating loved-ones' estates, and protecting the over-60 population from predatory business practices. In that clinic she was encouraged to engage in the practice of therapeutic jurisprudence, an approach she continues to use in her day-to-day practice.
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Acquired: 2007
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258 Hoosick Street, Suite 201, Troy, NY, 12180
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Posted by Melissa Hems | June 05, 2023 | Hired Attorney | Real Estate
I have been working with Colleen Dooley for 10+ years
I have been working in Real Estate since the 1990's. Colleen starts communicating with parties usually starting at 6AM. I trust her with all of my seller and buyer clients as well as my own personal purchases and sales. Always great with communication (usually through email which I prefer as well)...
Posted by Jeremy | August 05, 2020 | Hired Attorney | Real Estate
Terrific service
I was buying my first home and completely felt overwhelmed at first. Luckily I found a fantastic real estate agent in Chelsea Barraco who recommended using Colleen who Chelsea called part of her "A team" to help me with the process. From start to finish Colleen made sure I was well informed, aware of...
Posted by anonymous | July 24, 2020 | Hired Attorney | Real Estate
Beware, Doesn't Protect Clients, Shouldn't be an Attorney
We were referred to Ms. Dooley from our Real Estate agent. It was a disaster. We were trying to close by a certain date. She told us it shouldn't be a problem. Come to find out she did not order the title for over a week after we told her to. We found out this was on purpose because she had an undisc...
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2014 - Present
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2007 - 2014
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2007 - 2007
Associate Attorney, Roemer Wallens & Mineaux Llp
2007 - Present
Albany County Bar Associationmember
2004 - Present
New York State Bar Associationmember
2009 - 2011
Partners in DanceManaging Partner
2008 - 2011
Nacre, Inc.Advisory Board
2006 - 2009
Women's Bar Association of the State of New YorkMember
2006
Juris Doctor
2001
BFA
English