Adrienne Orbach, is an associate at Rosenthal & Markowitz, LLP since July 2003.
Adrienne graduated Magna Cum Laude from Pace School of Law in 1999; she received the White Plains Bar Association Outstanding Clinical Student Award, a Revson Fellowship at the New York State Capital Defenders office, and the Adolph Humboker Humanitarian Award. She honed her diverse legal experience at the Greater Upstate Law Project, at John Jay Legal Services, and as a staff attorney at the Social Justice Center. She combined her social work and legal careers as Coordinator for the Interdisciplinary Center for Fordham Law and Graduate School of Social Services at Lincoln Center until joining the firm full time. She has been an adjunct professor for Fordham University School of Social Services since 1995.
Adrienne focuses much of her legal talent on writing partnership agreements for a gay or other unmarried couple when the parties intend to co-mingle their assets so that if the couple separates or if one partner dies, there can be an appropriate plan for dividing their property. For those couples who have not adequately planned, she works to provide resolution of the issues which then arise under more stressful situations. She has litigated numerous partition actions which ensue when people fail to plan adequately for their property in the event of partnership separation, termination of relationships or inadequate estate planning. She has litigated numerous partition actions over issues involving title to real property. She reminds us that everyone, gay and straight, needs to engage in planning before intertwining their lives and assets.
Adrienne graduated from Indiana State University in 1981 and worked for a number of years with the adult mentally retarded within group home settings. While working at St. Vincent's Community Support Program (CSS) in Harrison, she began working on her MSW, graduating from Fordham University in 1988.
Adrienne remains active in the legal community by serving as an Officer and on the Board of the Westchester Women's Bar Association, where she stalled her second term as Treasurer in June 2006 and continues to assist the Directory Committee. Adrienne served on the diversity and membership task force of the Westchester County Bar Association, among many other committees, and sits on the Board of Directors at John Jay Legal Services, Pace University School of Law.
Adrienne and her partner of 18 years share a home in Westchester County, and they have recently been bitten by the golf bug. You can often find them teeing off at one of the local county golf courses. Adrienne founded the "lady lawyers" golf league that plays at Maplemoor Golf Course during the summer, and she continues to develop as a golf contender.
