Howard Alan Kave

Howard first stood before a judge, in the Criminal Court of the City of New York at 100 Centre Street, in September of 1972. He has been representing persons accused of crime every working day since then, a period of nearly 46 years.

Howard learned his craft, as a courtroom lawyer, as a Senior Trial Attorney with the Legal Aid Society of the City of New York in Kings County. By the age of 26 he was regularly trying felony cases in the Supreme Court and winning most of them. After five years in that position, he was appointed a Special Assistant Attorney General assigned to the Office of the Special State Prosecutor for Nursing Homes, Health and Social Services, supervising a team of financial auditors and criminal investigators in order to investigate, and prosecute, "white collar" crimes involving thefts, by deceit, from the Medicaid health financing system.

He left government service in 1981 and worked briefly as an associate in a small law firm in Sullivan County. The experience convinced him that he would be happier as his own employer.

While looking for a place to open his own practice, he fortuitously met an old colleague from the Legal Aid Society who had a small private practice in New Windsor, Within months they formed a partnership that lasted for ten years. During that time Howard developed greater experience in the civil practice, and became skilled in divorce and family law, contract and collection litigation, real estate transactions, business sales and acquisitions and general civil litigation.

Passionate about aviation since he first flew in an airplane at age 4, Howard achieved life long goal by earning a private pilot license in 1994 and purchased an four seat, single engine aircraft in 1996 that he owned and flew all over the eastern United States for the next 22 years. He obtained his instrument rating a few years later and now owns and operates a 1946 Aeronca Champ, a classic tail wheel airplane based at the Orange County Airport.

Brooklyn Law School

Brooklyn Law School

J.D. (1972) | Law

1969 - 1972

Honors: Invited to Law Review

Owner

Howard Alan Kave, Attorney at Law

1991 - Current

General Practice Law Firm. Criminal Defense; Divorce and Family Law; Debt Collection and Defense; Real Estate; Wills, General Litigation; Aviation Law

Town Attorney

Town of Lumberland, New York

1981 - Current

Partner

Feinman, Greher & Kave, P.C.

1981 - 1991

Private Practice; Criminal Defense, Divorce and Family Law, Commercial & Consumer Collections and Defense of Same; Wills, Real Estate, General Litigation

Associate Attorney

Greenwald & Graubard, P.C. Attorneys at Law

1980 - 1981

General Practice

Special Assistant Attorney General

New York State Department of Law

1977 - 1980

Investigated and Prosecuted White Collar Crime Involving Medicaid Fraud and Physical Abuse of Patients in Nursing Homes

Senior Trial Attorney

LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK

1972 - 1977

Represented Indigent Criminal Defendants in All Stages of Prosecution

Private Pilot, Instrument, Airplane, Single Engine & Tailwheel Airplane

Federal Aviation Administration

1994

New York State Bar Association

Current

Orange County Bar Association

Current

Aircraft Owner's and Pilots Association

Former Airport Support Network Volunteer; Current Legal Plan Counsel

Current

Experimental Aircraft Association

Current

Orange County Pilots Association

Past General Counsel

Current

Massachusetts

Since 1978

New York

Since 1973

New York

Since 1973

U.S. Supreme Court

Since 1978

• Rates, Retainers and Additional Information
  Free consultations are limited to criminal, collection, contract and personal injury matters. For all family law and divorce matters a consultation fee of $350 is paid at the time of the consultation and if I am retained in the matter within a year, it is credited to the retainer.

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