Our Practice

• Divorce
• Child Custody, Visitation, Guardianship
• Child Support
• Real Estate Litigation
• Business Litigation
• Small Business Advice

My career as an attorney began in New York City, where I practiced law at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, and then at Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman LLP.  While at these firms, I represented businesses and individual clients in a variety of civil litigation matters, including breach of contract, employment, civil rights, real estate, software licensing, civil fraud, antitrust, negligence, and professional malpractice lawsuits.  I also represented defendants in a variety of criminal investigations, prosecutions, and appeals, including health care fraud, insurance fraud, drug, and weapons cases.  My work included cases in federal and state trial courts in New York.  I also argued appeals before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First and Second Departments

I founded Wellner and Associates PLLC in 2012, with offices in Hudson, New York and New York City.  Since then, I have represented clients in a variety of matrimonial, business and employment law, real estate law, and estate planning and administration matters.  At the beginning of 2023, I moved to my current location and re-named my practice to better reflect the work that I do.

I received a Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural, Resource, and Managerial Economics from Cornell University in 1996, and a Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 2006. While in law school, I was the Editor in Chief of the Cardozo Law Review, and I received the school's Felix Frankfurter Award for outstanding academic achievement. 

We represent clients in the Hudson Valley of New York, most frequently in Columbia, Greene, Dutchess, and Ulster Counties.  

Much of our practice involves litigation matters in New York State's courts.  We have experience representing clients in the Supreme, County, Family, and Surrogate's Courts of New York, and in City and Town courts in the counties in which most of our practice is located.