Kristen Benson Successfully Represents Landowner Resolving Alleged Violations and Securing Special Use Permit for Business in the Town of Lenox, NY

September 5, 2016

Landowner purchased property zoned as Agricultural/Residential intending to construct a pole barn for a business

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Kevin Hulslander and John Goldman Win Ulster County Trial

January 27, 2023

Hulslander and Goldman recently won a difficult medical malpractice case in the Hudson Valley. They

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DeFrancesco Wins Another Medical Malpractice Summary Judgment

June 28, 2019

Chris DeFrancesco obtained summary judgment for a family nurse practitioner in a wrongful death case

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Smith Sovik Attorneys named to Super Lawyer List!

August 5, 2016

15 Smith Sovik Attorneys were selected to the 2016 Upstate New York Super Lawyers List.

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Thirteen Smith Sovik Attorneys Recognized by Their Peers as Super Lawyers

September 15, 2015

Smith Sovik Kendrick & Sugnet, PC is proud to announce that thirteen of the Firm’s

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Ryan and DeFrancesco win Summary Judgment in Labor Law Case

October 28, 2019

Daniel Ryan, Esq., and Chris DeFrancesco, Esq., won summary judgment in Seneca County on a

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Jury Rejects Plaintiffs’ Claims in Food Poisoning Case

October 5, 2015

Representing a local fast food restaurant, Kristin L. Norfleet, Esq., successfully defended plaintiffs' claims of

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75 Years of Winning

January 4, 2021

THE SMITH SOVIK LAW FIRM, THREE QUARTERS OF A CENTURY ON Smith Sovik proudly celebrates

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Fourth Department Reverses Niagara County Supreme Court and Finds No Defect

March 30, 2017

Eric S. Bernhardt, Esq., and Brandon R. King, Esq., successfully secured reversal of the trial

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Dismissal of redundant federal court complaint granted in multiple-plaintiff employment discrimination action

July 26, 2014

Smith Sovik attorneys Kristen Benson, Edward Smith, and Anthony Brighton successfully obtained judgment dismissing a

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