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Robert Feder, along with Bill Cuddy, founded the firm of Cuddy & Feder in 1971, adding to Feder’s active and varied career in the law. For 18 years, he was house counsel to Presidential Realty Corp., a publicly owned real estate investment trust, and remains on its board of directors. Long involved in the development, financing, construction, purchase, leasing and sale of real estate, Feder has extensive experience in the environmental review of large real estate projects and the complex zoning and planning issues associated with largescale development. A fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and a member of the American, New York State, Westchester County and White Plains bar associations, Feder has also been a member of the board of directors of the Legal Aid Society since 1971, and served as president of the society for five years.
Among the many honors and awards he has received are the Access to Justice Award from Legal Services of the Hudson Valley and selection as one of the Best Lawyers of America. An active participant in community activities, Feder has been a member of the board of directors of White Plains Hospital for more than 30 years, and served as its chairman for eight years. He is a vice chairman of the Purchase College Foundation and served for 18 years as a commissioner of the White Plains Housing Authority. In 2005, he was named White Plains Citizen Extraordinaire by the White Plains Historical Society. A graduate of the City College of the City of New York, Feder received his law degree from the Columbia University School of Law. Most important in his life, however, are his wife, Marjorie, their four daughters and a son, and their eight grandchildren.
Mary Beth Quaranta Morrissey is a practicing attorney in White Plains and concentrates her practice in health law. She is the founder and president of the Collaborative for Palliative Care, a consortium of professionals and health care providers dedicated to research, education and advocacy to advance palliative care, and she is the recipient of the 2012 Aging Services Golden Harvest Corporate Leadership Award. Morrissey earned her Ph.D. in gerontological social work at the Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service (2011), where she was a recipient of the Langenfeld Research Award for her doctoral research. She holds a master‘s degree in public health from the New York Medical College School of Health Sciences and Practice (2005) and a Juris Doctorate from Fordham Law School (1982). Morrissey is a research fellow at the Global Healthcare Innovation Management Center and adjunct professor
at the Fordham School of Business. She also directs Fordham’s post-master’s Health Care Management Certificate program in public health, palliative and longterm care, an interdisciplinary education and training program she designed and launched in spring 2013 for health professionals as well as health care and business managers. In January, Morrissey became president of the State Society on Aging of New York and president elect of the Public Health Association of New York city. She continues her leadership as chairwoman of the APHA Aging & Public Health Section Policy Committee, chairwoman of the Palliative Care Subcommittee of the New York City Bar Association Bioethical Issues Committee and co-chairwoman of the health law committees of the Women’s Bar Association of the state of New York, the Westchester Women’s Bar Association and the Westchester County Bar Association.
Laura Alemzadeh is the general counsel at Kawasaki Rail Car Inc. in Yonkers. She was appointed to this position in January 2011 and leads the company’s U.S. legal rail operations and the overseas government relations and corporate communications departments, as well as the compliance group. Alemzadeh joined Kawasaki from the financial services industry where she was vice president of operations. Among other responsibilities, she led the operational needs of the company’s hedge fund product line. Before entering the business field, Alemzadeh was a litigator for several years in New York City. She is a graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School, York University in Toronto, and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in liberal arts from the University of Central Florida. Since 2010, Alemzadeh has been a member of
the New York City Transit Museum board of directors, helping bring the Grand Central Centennial exhibit to Westchester. She is also a participant in the Generation Yonkers campaign for the city of Yonkers, promoting economic growth and revitalization for the city. Kawasaki Rail Car is one of the global leaders and manufacturers of high-speed train and rail car systems for major transit agencies in the U.S. For the past 25 years Kawasaki has been manufacturing and delivering more than 2,000 rail cars to transit agencies such as New York City Transit, Metro-North Rail Road, Long Island Rail Road, Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority and the PATH. Kawasaki rail cars are known for their innovative engineering design and having the highest reliability measures in the industry.
ROBERT FEDER
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MARY BETH QUARANTA MORRISSEY
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LEADING IN-HOUSE ATTORNEY
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