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company for one or more summers during and prior to law school.
Martin Feinstein (Feinstein), an associate at Shea & Gould, also
reviewed the Plastics Recycling transactions for Alter and some
of Alter's clients.
Feinstein has a B.A. in economics from Brooklyn College and
graduated cum laude from the New York University School of Law.
He is a member of the New York State bar and during 1981 he also
was a certified public accountant (C.P.A.). Feinstein earned the
credits that enabled him to sit for the C.P.A. exam from New York
University. During law school, and for a time afterward,
Feinstein worked at an accounting firm. He then joined a
business management company, Vincent Andrews, Inc. (VAI). VAI
managed the finances of people primarily in the entertainment and
theatrical industry. Feinstein specialized in tax matters and
budgeting at VAI. He and Alter met in 1969 through a VAI client,
Bill Cullen, who at the time also was represented by Alter in a
tax matter. Feinstein subsequently joined Alter, LeFevre
sometime in 1969.6
Feinstein continued to advise persons regarding financial
and tax matters at Alter, LeFevre. The firm provided a variety
6 At trial, Feinstein recalled that at the time he joined
Alter, LeFevre, the name of the firm was Pross, Halpern, Smith.
Alter's posttrial brief indicates that the firm's name at that
time was Pross, Smith, Halpern & LeFevre.
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