Counsel
Stephen R. Angel
Senior Counsel
Steve Angel has been with the firm since 1974, after graduating from Cornell Law School. During his nearly five decades of practice with the firm, Steve has conducted hundreds of trials and hearings and argued scores of appeals before the Federal and State Courts and various State and municipal agencies. Steve’s litigation practice covers a broad range of areas, including actions against government (zoning, wetlands, beach rights, riparian rights, and regulatory takings), contract disputes (representing both owners and contractors), real estate title matters (ownership, easements, boundary disputes, and adverse possession), and estate litigation (contested probates, contested accountings, and other Surrogate’s Court proceedings). Steve has received Martindale Hubbell’s highest “AV” rating from its peer review process and has been included in Thompson-Reuter’s list of NY Metro Area “SuperLawyers.”
Marcia Z. Hefter
Senior Counsel
Marcia Hefter has been practicing with the firm since 1967, when she joined William Esseks upon graduating from New York University Law School. She has since represented banks, buyers, and sellers on thousands of real estate transactions and has prepared or administered numerous estate and business plans, including the drafting and probating of hundreds of wills. Mrs. Hefter was the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Bridgehampton National Bank and now Member of the Board of Dime Bank, and she has also served on the Board of Directors of the Central Suffolk Hospital. Her practice areas include real estate, estate and business planning, and tax planning.
James Spiess, McNulty-Spiess, PC
Of Counsel
After graduating from the St. John’s University School of Law in 1981, James Spiess began practicing law in New York City at a firm that concentrated in trust and estate litigation. In 1983, he relocated to the East End of Long Island and joined the predecessor to the firm of McNulty-Spiess, P.C. As of February, 2021, Jim and McNulty-Spiess, P.C. joined EHADP as “of counsel” to the firm, bringing to the firm almost 40 years of estate, commercial and real estate litigation experience, at both trial and appellate levels. As a seasoned Surrogate’s Court practitioner, Jim is regularly asked to represent clients of firms throughout the metropolitan area in matters before the Suffolk County Surrogate’s Court. He is a member of both the New York State and Suffolk County Bar Association.
Elizabeth L. Baldwin
Counsel
Beth joined the firm in 2021, bringing her extensive municipal, land use, and real estate experience. Beth now represents both landowners and municipalities, including the Shelter Island Planning Board and Village of Westhampton Beach. Before joining the firm, Beth had served as the Village Attorney for the Village of East Hampton, where she counseled the Village Board of Trustees and all of the Village’s appointed Boards and staff. Before Beth became Village Attorney, she served two administrations in the Town of East Hampton for over 10 years as an Assistant Town Attorney, representing the Town’s Zoning Board of Appeals, defending over a dozen Article 78 proceedings, representing the Town in most of its real estate transactions, and drafting legislation for the Town Board. Beth graduated in 2000 with a Bachelor of Science from Florida State University and earned her Juris Doctor in May 2003 from Syracuse University where she was an Associate Editor of the Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce and Executive Editor of the Syracuse Science and Technology Law Report.
Patricia M. Carroll
Counsel
Patty originally joined the firm in 2010. Patty’s practice focuses on litigating real property disputes. Patty represents individuals, businesses, landowners, farmers, and municipalities in such areas as title disputes, zoning, environmental, and municipal law. Patty has also developed an extensive appellate practice. Prior to joining the firm, Patty practiced law in Manhattan for 18 years. Patty graduated cum laude from Colgate University in 1988, where she majored in French, with a minor in Economics. She earned her JD in 1992 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was awarded the Dean Jefferson B. Fordham Human Rights Award, and co-founded Penn Advocates For The Homeless. During the year prior to law school, Patty attended the Université de Caen in Normandy, France as a Fulbright Scholar and she is fluent in French.