Susan is a partner in the Albany firm, Cooper Erving & Savage LLP, where she has practiced through the firm’s various incarnations since graduating from Albany Law School. While at the Law School, Susan was a member of the Law Review and the recipient of several academic scholarships. Susan is a magna cum laude graduate of Russell Sage College where she was elected to Phi Kappa Phi and Omicron Delta Epsilon. She is active in a number of Bar organizations: the Albany County Bar Association where she has served as Director, Officer and President, the New York State Bar Association where she has served as a Member of the House of Delegates and the Nominating Committee, and the Estate Planning Council of Eastern New York, Inc. where she has served as a Director. In addition, Susan is a Fellow of the New York Bar Foundation and chairs the Nominating Committee for the Third Judicial District.

Susan has served a number of community organizations including the Albany-Colonie Chamber of Commerce, Inc. as counsel, Emma Willard School as Trustee, Albany Roundtable, University at Albany Foundation and Council of Community Services as Director. She is currently chair of the Board of Directors of the Community Foundation for the greater Capital Region, Inc. She has been named in Who’s Who in American Law, Super Lawyers and other publications. Susan has concentrated in Trust and Estate Planning, Administration and Litigation and their relatives, Elder Law and Not-for-Profit organizations, for a number of years. Accordingly, she is a member of both the Trusts and Estates and Elder Law as well as the Business Corporation Sections of the State Bar. Susan is a frequent lecturer to community organizations and bar associations, both at the local and state levels.

• Estate and Trust Litigation
• Estate and Trust Planning and Administration
• Closely-Held Business

EDUCATION

• Albany Law School Union University, Albany, New York
  J.D. – 1979
  Law Review: Albany Law Review, Member, 1977 – 1978
• Russell Sage College, Troy, New York
  B.A. magna cum laude – 1976
  Honors: Phi Kappa Phi
  Honors: Omicron Delta Epsilon
  Honors: Edna Sniffen Travis Award
  Major: Economics

BAR ADMISSIONS

• New York, 1980
• U.S. District Court Northern District of New York, 1980
• U.S. District Court Western District of New York, 1985
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1988
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• Dismissal of action warranted because plaintiff failed to provide access to the premises to his siblings. Jenkins v Jenkins, 145 A.D.3d 1231 (3rd Dep’t 2016).
• Matter of Campione, 58 AD3d 1032, 872 NYS2d 210 (NY Appellate Division 2009)