As for her appellate practice, her writing has been the subject of much praise. Her passion is for successful prosecution of appeals, both as appellant’s counsel and Respondent’s counsel. Her record is very good and her experience is impressive. She has written, co-written, produced or assisted in writing several appeals on diverse areas of law both presently in her position as an attorney of this law firm and prior to that, as a member of the 18-B Appellate Panel, Second Department, and as a law clerk for matrimonial firms in California. In New York she is currently working on her fourth (4th) New York Custody appeal, dealing exclusively on the issues surrounding custody, visitation and all ancillary issues thereon.

As to custody appellate work, Lisa Beth Older writes excellent appeal briefs, is good in oral argument, has diverse experience in writing appeals in different areas of appellate review and has had unusually good outcomes in several cases, including in custody appellate law, but of course she may not guarantee any outcome in future work.

• Lisa Beth Older has extensive trial experience and is not afraid to go to court if the case so warrants.

   

• She defended and successfully prevailed on an appeal which was personally argued before the Appellate Division, Third Department in 2001 ZINDULKA v. ZINDULKA 284 A.D.2d 631 (2001) 726 N.Y.S.2d 173 GREGORY ZINDULKA, Respondent, v.CATHLEEN ZINDULKA, Now Known as KITTY CHARDE, Appellant. Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department. Decided June 7, 2001. This case is a current leading case on geographical relocation and custody.

   

• In 2009, in the Supreme Court Second Department State of New York, Lisa Beth Older won an appeal in the Second department on the issue of child custody. She prosecuted an appeal on behalf of a mother from an unfavorable lower court custody decision, and prevailed. The below case was decided on July 21, 2009. SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPELLATE DIVISION: SECOND JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT In the Matter of Alyse Larkin, appellant, v Caleb J. White, respondent. The above two cases that Lisa Beth Older prosecuted and defended have been regularly cited by other law firms in support of their respective positions on their cases.

   

• Lisa Beth Older has been very fortunate and lucky in her appellate work. As for work performed as an intern/law clerk for the Law Firm of Hulse and Sherwood, Santa Monica, California she worked on and prevailed on an appeal brief defending a matrimonial judgment finding the pivotal case that turned the case into a winner.

   

• In California, in her capacity as a law clerk, she assisted in a successful appeal that made rent control law under the auspices of the law firm of Don Erik Franzen and Franzen & Associates for Defendant and Appellant. The case she worked on was Nourafchan v. Miner (1985) 169 Cal.App.3d 746 [215 Cal.Rptr. 450]

   

• Lisa Beth Older also assisted on research on a brief for the ACLU that went to the US Supreme Court and the ACLU prevailed. Kolender v. Lawson, 461 U.S. 352 (1983), is a United States Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of laws that allow police to demand that “loiterers” and “wanderers” provide identification.

   

• Lisa Beth Older worked also worked on two criminal appeals, one for the law firm of Short and Gas, and one on the appellate panel, State of New York, Second Department.

   

• Lisa Beth Older has now just completed and filed an appeal that deals exclusively with issues of “custody” and visitation which is now pending in the Second Department, Supreme Court, State of New York.

   

• Lisa Beth Older has now filed a Notice of appeal and is perfecting the Record on Appeal and Appellate Brief in yet another appeal dealing exclusively with custody issues in the Fourth Department, Supreme Court, State of New York.

Lisa Beth Older is also a New York City legal analyst and Writer and is often called upon to appear on breaking news stories having to do with divorce, custody or appeals. She has appeared on television nationally on countless occasions on such shows as Fox, MSNBC, ABC news, Fox and Friends, Montel Williams, National Public Radio, Joyce Brothers, Entertainment Tonight, CNN, Dr. Joyce Brown, and other such shows. She has been uniquely quoted by major newspapers around the world on issues concerning the court system and children. All of these shows on custody and appellate practice in New York have involved her rendering and legal commentary on several issues, including the Anna Nicole Smith story.

Lisa Beth Older also broadcasted a popular TV program on Divorce Law in New York. She co-authored a popular well-circulated DVD on Divorce Law in New York, containing valuable consumer information (not advice) as to the issues one might find in a divorce case in NY. She authored of several published articles on divorce, family law, and custody and on constitutional issues surrounding family law.

She also has experience in criminal Law as well. Criminal law is an area of law that often comes up in divorce and family offense matters in both New York Supreme Court divorce cases and Family Court custody cases. Lisa Beth has her trial feet wet in this area of law which is extremely important as these issues frequently arise in New York divorce cases in Supreme Court, New York custody cases, and New York cases on appeal. After handling hundreds of cases involving family offenses, assault, juvenile Delinquency hearings, criminal vehicle and traffic matters and has tried dozens of these types of cases to verdict including a double homicide jury trial leading to the acquittal of the defendant. Further, she acted as co-counsel through to verdict on four (4) murder trials, two of which were high profile cases, and on two other felony trials involving burglary and narcotics.

As to her other cases, she has appeared in Federal Court and she has performed outside of court as well, where most cases should start in an effort toward negotiation, mediation and settlement. In that context, she negotiated contracts for major corporations, appeared in civil actions, and drafted pleadings, motions, correspondences, and memorandums of law; Appeared in special proceedings, civil forfeiture actions, actions for evictions and complaints for moneys had and received; Represented defendants against claims brought by the New York state Attorney General’s Office regarding Wic fraud; Brought actions for fraud and adverse possession through to judgment; Defended clients in eviction actions brought by the City Housing Authority; In the capacity of corporation counsel for a large steel manufacturing company, she successfully handled their commercial and collection defense work for a term of one year, including defense work in local justice Courts, Federal Court, Supreme Court and County Court.