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Ms. Kane joined the firm in 2016 and is an Associate with the firm. She is now of Special Counsel. Ms. Kane's practice is concentrated in the areas of Labor & Employment and Litigation. Ms. Kane defends employers against liability, discrimination and disability claims, and represents employers in contract negotiations, General Municipal Law 207 matters, arbitration, discipline and administrative proceedings.

Ms. Kane began her legal career when she served as student judicial law clerk to the Honorable Thomas J. McAvoy, Senior U.S. District Judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York. She also served as a student law clerk with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of New York in Syracuse, N.Y.

Leadership & Community Involvement

• Board of Directors for the YMCA of Broome County
• Board of Directors of the Addiction Center of Broome County

Publications & Presentations

• Enforceability of Settlement Agreements in New York: Say What You Mean, N.Y. EMPLOYMENT LAW LETTER, April 2017, at 4-5 (VOL. 24, No. 4).
• Are Settlement Negotiations Confidential or Admissible Evidence?, N.Y. EMPLOYMENT LAW LETTER, March 2017, at 4-5 (VOL. 24, No. 3).
• Handling Mental Disability Claims: Tips for New York Employers, N.Y. EMPLOYMENT LAW LETTER, Feb. 2017, at 1-2 (VOL. 24, No. 2).
• Fifth Amendment Doesn't Bar New York Detective's Discipline, N.Y. EMPLOYMENT LAW LETTER, Jan. 2017, at 2-3 (VOL. 24, No. 1).

Ms. Austin joined Coughlin & Gerhart, LLP in 2004 and is a partner with the firm. Her practice is concentrated in Estate Planning & Administration, Supplemental Needs Trusts, Guardianships, Commercial Lending, Residential & Commercial Real Estate, Real Estate Litigation, Adoptions, and Immigration.

Ms. Austin is a member of the Broome County and New York State Bar Associations.

Languages

• English (Primary)
• Cantonese Chinese

Mr. Steflik joined Coughlin & Gerhart LLP in 1999 and is Of Counsel with the firm. He is Chair Emeritus of the firm’s Labor and Employment Law Practice Group. Mr. Steflik concentrates his law practice in the areas of labor, employment, and construction law.

Mr. Steflik is the past Chair of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the New York State Bar Association, and a member of the American Bar Association's Labor and Employment Law Section and its Forum on the Construction Industry. Mr. Steflik has given numerous lectures on such topics as strikes, picketing and their alternatives, union organizing activities, age, sex, disability discrimination, administrative procedures, and the multiple aspects of construction law. Mr. Steflik is a contributor to various books including the American Bar Association/BNA treatises Developing Labor Law, Employment Discrimination Law, and Employee Benefits Law. He is listed in the labor and employment law section of Best Lawyers in America. Mr. Steflik also teaches at Binghamton University. Mr. Steflik has been honored as one of the “New York Area’s Best Lawyers” in labor and employment law in the 2008 listings published by New York Magazine.

Publications & Presentations

• Steflik has given numerous lectures on such topics as strikes, picketing and their alternatives, union organizing activities, age, sex, disability discrimination, administrative procedures.
• Steflik is a contributor to various books including the American Bar Association/BNA treatises Developing Labor Law, Employment Discrimination Law, and Employee Benefits Law.

Honors & Awards

• New York Area's Best Lawyers" in the area of labor and employment law in the 2008 listings published by New York Magazine.

Leadership & Community Involvement

• Adjunct Professor at Binghamton University

Debra joined in March 2020 after serving as Managing Partner in the Vestal Office of Tully Rinckey. Debra is a graduate of Stony Brook University, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, Cum Laude, Phi Betta Kappa in 2003.

In 2007 she obtained her Juris Doctor Degree from Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center. She was admitted to practice law in New York State in 2008. She was awarded CALI academic excellence awards in Family Law, Rights of Children, and Family Law Clinic.

Practice Areas:

Debra handles primarily matrimonial and family law matters including divorce, child custody and visitation, child support, paternity, adoption, grandparent visitation, grandparent, and other non-parent custody.

Community Involvement:

Debra has served as a Court Appointed Special Advocate, ad is currently on the Board of Directors of RISE, a local not-for-profit organization which provides assistance to the victims of domestic violence. She has had special training in mediation, she is also approved to serve on the New York State Guardian Ad Litem Panel, being appointed by the Surrogate to represent adults determined by the Court to be disabled and who require legal counsel in adult guardianship matters.
Debra also practices in several general practice areas. 

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