This being our 35th anniversary, your writer thought it might be of some interest to our readers just how Ettinger Law Firm first came into being. It is written in the third person to make it more readable.
The law firm was founded in a single office in West Hurley, New York, just outside Kingston, NY. Kingston sits in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York where the firm’s founder, Michael Ettinger resided at the time.
How Michael ended up in rural West Hurley, having been born and raised in Montreal, Canada is a story in itself. He graduated law school at McGill University in Montreal (sometimes called the “Harvard of Canada”) in 1977 at the age of 22. Feeling that he was too young to start practicing law, he also yearned to move to New York after his uncle Norman, who had moved from Montreal to Scarsdale, NY a few years earlier.