Partners
Anthony C. Pasca
Partner
Anthony Pasca joined the firm in 1998 and has been a partner since 2006. He maintains active litigation, land use, and real estate practices. In his general litigation practice, Anthony represents clients in such areas as zoning, environmental, and municipal law, contested real estate transactions, and title disputes. Anthony’s administrative land use practice is benefited from his dual perspective of being both a municipal attorney and private-side counsel to landowners applying for various land use approvals. In his real estate practice, Anthony represents buyers, sellers, and builders of residential properties, utilizing his experiences from his land use and litigation practices to protect his clients from the unique issues that can often arise in the Hamptons markets. He has received Martindale Hubbell’s highest “AV” rating from its peer review process, as well as its selection as a Top Rated Lawyer in Litigation, Land Use and Zoning, and Appellate Law. Since 2014, he has been included in Thompson-Reuter’s list of NY Metro Area “SuperLawyers.”
Carmela M. Di Talia
Partner
Carmela Di Talia, a partner in the firm since 2006, heads the firm’s real estate, estate planning, estate administration and corporate areas of practice. Having joined the firm in 1995 upon graduation from law school, Ms. Di Talia has devoted her legal career to practicing law on the east end of Long Island. Ms. DiTalia brings a multi-faceted approach to her representation of individuals, families, fiduciaries, beneficiaries, landowners, builders, and businesses in connection with all aspects of real estate transactions, business operations and transactions, estate planning, estate administration and estate litigation. Her broad-ranging real estate practice includes both simple and complex residential and commercial transactions, and she also counsels clients on the formation, operation and sale of various types of business entities. Ms. Di Talia prepares estate planning documents to assist clients in passing on and preserving their assets, and she probates wills, administers intestate estates, advises fiduciaries and beneficiaries, and litigates disputes on behalf of her clients before the Surrogate’s Court. Ms. Di Talia has received Martindale Hubbell’s highest peer review rating of “AV” and has been selected as one of its “Top Rated Lawyers in Real Estate.”
Lisa D. Tymann
Partner
Lisa joined the firm in October 2015 when she re-located from Manhattan, where she had practiced for over 15 years. She is a member of the firm’s transactional practice, with a focus on estate planning, estate administration, general business operations and transactions, and real estate. Lisa counsels individuals regarding estate planning, which, in addition to the preparation of basic estate planning documents, includes the creation of various types of trusts, gifting, transfers and leases of real property and the formation of corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships and not-for-profit corporations. Lisa also represents and counsels fiduciaries in the probate of wills and administration of intestate estates, and sellers and purchasers in real estate transactions. As part of her corporate practice, Lisa represents business clients in the formation and ongoing operation of business entities, as well as the purchase and sale of businesses.
Amanda Star Frazer
Partner
Amanda Star Frazer is a general commercial and real estate litigator, who has represented individuals, companies, title insurers and landowners in complex commercial litigation, contract and business torts disputes, real estate and title litigation, and civil appeals. Amanda has been retained by national title insurance companies to represent them in matters involving complex mortgage fraud schemes, title agent defalcations, and title insurance coverage determinations, and to represent lenders and property owners caught in title disputes. Before joining the firm in 2016, Amanda practiced commercial litigation in Florida for nine years, last serving as senior counsel at a state-wide firm. Amanda graduated magna cum laude in 2007 from the University of Miami School of Law, where she was a Dean’s Merit Scholar, Dean’s Fellow in the Academic Achievement Program, a member of the University of Miami Law Review, and an intern for a New York State Supreme Court Justice. She has also served as a CLE lecturer for Fidelity National Title Insurance Company. In 2018, Amanda joined the board of directors of The Ellen Hermanson Foundation. From 2013 through 2017, she was named as a “Rising Star” in business litigation by Thompson-Reuter’s “Super Lawyers”.
Kim A. Smith
Partner
Kim A. Smith graduated summa cum laude from the State University of New York at Stony Brook with a B.A. in political science. She received her J.D. cum laude from Fordham University School of Law, where she was the Notes and Articles editor of the Urban Law Journal. Kim started her career as an associate with the New York City firm of Cahill Gordon & Reindel, LLP in 2003 and exclusively represented a major banking institution from 2012 through 2013. Throughout her career, Kim’s practice has covered a broad range of commercial and general litigation matters, including contract, employment, insurance and real property disputes.