Lou Lewis

LOU LEWIS   Founder and Senior Member of the firm.  Email: Lewis has practiced law in New York since 1969. He is the past president of the Dutchess County Bar Association and a former trustee of Marist College. Practice Areas:Litigation; Tax Certiorari Law; Construction Law; Surety :1969, New York; 1971, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 1986, U.S. Supreme :Marist College (B.A.), cum laude, 1964; New York University (J.D.), 1968   He has lectured widely on tax certiorari issues, and is the author of: "School Tax Refunds - The Not-So-Sleeping Giant," Journal of the New York State School Board Association, March 1976 Contributing Author: “Review and Reduction of Real Property Assessment in New York,”  update to Chapter Eight “Special Valuation Problems,” 1999 Contributing Author:  Supplement to “Review and Reduction of Real Property Assessment in New York,”  Third Edition, New York State Bar Association, 2000; Co-Author of “Municipalization of Electric Properties,” Talk of the Towns & Topics (July/Aug. 2002).  Professional Activities and Associations: Confidential Law Clerk, Office of the Corporation Counsel, New York City, 1968-1969. Trustee, Marist College, 1971-1991. Commissioner, Poughkeepsie Historic Districts, 1974-1980. Hearing Officer, New York State Education Department, 1982-1994. Dutchess County (President, 1992-1993), New York State (Member, Tax Certiorari Law Section) and American (Member: Labor and Employment Law Section) Bar Associations; New York State Association of School Attorneys