Mission Statement: ~To provide timely and accurate legal advice to our clients and to the community; ~To assure that our clients receive the highest level of safety and security in a changing world; ~To defend our clients' rights and champion their just causes; and ~To see to it that those who interact with us are satisfied beyond their expectations. With over 28 years of experience, Ettinger Law Firm has been practicing elder law estate planning exclusively since 1991. Our practice consists of Living Trusts, Medicaid Asset Protection Trusts, Medicaid Applications, Wills, Probate, Estate Administration and Special Needs Trusts in our sixteen offices in Albany, Bohemia, Brooklyn, Fishkill, Huntington, Lake Success, Manhattan, Melville, Middletown, Nyack, Rhinebeck, Rockville Centre, Saratoga, Smithtown, Staten Island and White Plains. We serve elder law estate planning clients in the following counties of New York: Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Kings, Nassau, New York, Orange, Putnam, Queens, Ulster, Rensselaer, Richmond, Rockland, Saratoga, Schenectady, Suffolk, Sullivan, Warren, Washington, and Westchester. Our founding attorney, Michael Ettinger, is author of “Elder Law Estate Planning” and a leading authority on elder law estate planning matters. He was a founding member of The American Academy of Estate Planning Lawyers and Past President of The American Association of Trust, Estate and Elder Law Attorneys. The firm today consists of nine lawyers and thirteen paralegals and support staff.