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On March 16, 2016, Leslie J. Snyder presented an overview of the responsibilities of Zoning Boards of Appeal (“ZBA”) entitled “Zoning Board Primer – What You Need to Know” to the Westchester Municipal Planning Federation’s Land Use Training Institute. The presentation outlined the key functions that ZBAs furnish to municipalities, and provided a case digest of New York land use law decisions involving ZBAs in New York State. The cases were presented in one of six categories: area variances, use...Read More

Snyder & Snyder, LLP is a proud annual sponsor of the New Jersey Wireless Association for 2016. On March 10, 2016, Cara Bonomolo and Carla Chaves attended NJWA’s education event featuring Fred Scalera, and enjoyed his lively discussion of the existing JerseyNet public safety broadband system deployed along Route 21 in northern New Jersey, as well in Camden and Atlantic City.Read More

Robert D. Gaudioso and Leslie J. Snyder were both named Super Lawyers for 2015. Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas. The selection process is multi-phased and includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations. The attorneys selected to Super Lawyers are limited to 5% of the practicing attorneys in the New York Metro area.Read More

Inga Caldwell joined Snyder & Snyder, LLP in 2015. Prior to joining Snyder & Snyder, LLP, Inga practiced for three years at a boutique environmental law firm in New York. Inga has federal and state environmental litigation experience and has assisted with the management of Superfund Sites. Inga graduated from Vermont Law School in 2012 (J.D. magna cum laude). At Vermont Law School, Inga was Production Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law and a Fellow for the Vermont...Read More

Partner Robert D. Gaudioso moderated an educational panel entitled “Emerging Technologies: 5G and Beyond” at the New York State Wireless Association 2015 Tradeshow and Conference in New York City in June. The panel arranged by Mr. Gaudioso included Morgan O’Brien, Chairman of Cyren Call Communications and co-founder of Nextel, Dr. Durga Satapathy, Director of Technology Innovation and Architecture for Sprint, Tunc Yorulmaz, Vice President and CTO for its Verizon Business Unit with Ericsson, and Andrew Clegg, Google’s Spectrum Engineering Lead....Read More

Partner Robert D. Gaudioso had the pleasure of introducing the Closing Keynote Speaker, Jessica Zufolo, Deputy Administrator with the Rural Utilities Service for the United States Department of Agriculture, currently on detail to the U.S. Department of Commerce for FirstNet, at the New York State Wireless Association 2015 Tradeshow and Conference in New York City in June. Since March 2014, Ms. Zufolo has served as the Director of Infrastructure and Business Strategy and most recently as the Director of Federal...Read More

Zoning, SEQRA and Telecommunications Law: The firm’s litigation team, including Robert D. Gaudioso and Douglas W. Warden, successfully defended an Article 78 petition brought by neighboring property owners challenging the Town of New Castle’s zoning approval of a telecommunications tower and personal wireless service facility. The firm represented a wireless telecommunications tower developer and a major wireless telecommunications provider during the zoning process and in the litigation. The Supreme Court of Westchester County, New York addressed several unsettled issues in...Read More

Partner Robert D. Gaudioso moderated two panels at the International Wireless Communications Expo 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada: “Signal Booster Roundtable” and “Next Generation Antenna Design: From DAS to LTE.”Read More

Associate Jordan M. Fry moderated the panel entitled “DAS Design and Deployment From Start to Finish” at the Northeast DAS & Small Cell Association’s In-Building Wireless Summit in New York City.Read More

Snyder & Snyder, LLP continues to expand its Fiber Practice. Deborah Beals, counsel to the Firm, has more than two decades of experience in fiber optic network deployment. In 1990 Leslie Snyder represented the first municipality in Westchester County, New York to execute an agreement permitting installation of fiber optic facilities in its public right of way. The firm continues to focus on fiber optic deployment agreements through its representation of several telecommunication companies. Once the networks have been constructed,...Read More