Michele M. Monserrate

Albany, New York
Partner

Phone: (518) 465-0400 :: Fax: (518) 465-0015
Email: monserrate@1stlaw.com

Michele M. Monserrate is a 1986 graduate of Georgetown University, where she was elected to the Jesuit Honor Society and Psi Chi Honor Society, and a 1989 graduate of Albany Law School of Union University. Michele is admitted to practice In the State of New York, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and in the U.S. District Court for the Northern, Southern and Western Districts of New York.

Michele is an officer of the firm and an experienced litigation attorney who has handled a broad range of cases involving professional liability, premises liability, motor vehicle negligence and Labor Law issues. Prior to entering private practice, Michele gained significant litigation experience at the appellate level while serving as a judicial law clerk to an Associate Justice of the Appellate Division, Third Department. In that capacity, Michele researched and drafted judicial opinions in criminal, civil and administrative law matters. She was recently selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America for the specialty of Appellate Law and is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell.

Michele is a member of the New York State Bar Association, Albany County Bar Association and Capital District Women’s Bar Association.

• Professional Liability - Medical, Dental, Legal
• General/Commercial Liability
• Labor Law

• New York, 1990
  
• Massachusetts, 1989
  
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York, 1990
  
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 1994
  
• U.S. District Court, Western District of New York, 2007
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 2005
  

• Albany Law School of Union University, Albany, New York, 1989, J.D.
  Honors: Cum Laude
  Honors: Justinian Society
  
• Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 1986, B.A.
  Honors: Cum Laude
  Honors: Psi Chi Honor Society
  Honors: Jesuit Honor Society
  

• Siena College, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Economics, 2008
• American Institute of Banking, Instructor, 1997 - 1999

• New York State Bar Association
• Albany County Bar Association
• Capital District Women's Bar Association
• Professional Liability Underwriting Society

• Martindale-Hubbell, AV Rated
• The Best Lawyers in America, Appellate Law

• Clerk for Honorable Howard A. Levine, Associate Justice, Appellate Division, Third Department, 1990 - 1992.