LOU LEWIS   Founder and Senior Member of the firm, Mr. Lewis has practiced law in New York since 1969. He is the past president of the Dutchess County Bar Association and a former trustee of Marist College. He has lectured widely on tax certiorari issues, and is the author of "School Tax Refunds - The Not-So-Sleeping Giant," Journal of the New York State School Board Association, March 1976; Contributing Author, of “Review and Reduction of Real Property Assessment in New York,”  update to Chapter Eight, “Special Valuation Problems” 1999; Contributing Author:  Supplement to “Review and Reduction of Real Property Assessment in New York,”  Third Edition, New York State Bar Association, 2000; Co-Author of “Municipalization of Electric Properties,” Talk of the Towns & Topics (July/Aug. 2002). 

Practice Areas:  Litigation; Tax Certiorari Law; Construction Law; Surety Law.

Admitted: 1969, New York; 1971, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 1986, U.S. Supreme Court.

Educated: Marist College (B.A.), cum laude, 1964; New York University (J.D.), 1968

Professional Activities and Associations: Confidential Law Clerk, Office of the Corporation Counsel, New York City, 1968-1969. Trustee, Marist College, 1971-1991. Commissioner, Poughkeepsie Historic Districts, 1974-1980. Hearing Officer, New York State Education Department, 1982-1994. Dutchess County (President, 1992-1993), New York State (Member, Tax Certiorari Law Section) and American (Member: Labor and Employment Law Section) Bar Associations; New York State Association of School Attorneys.

You can email Lou Lewis at llewis@lewisgreer.com.

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