Cummings appointed president elect/first vice president of Hope for Youth

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East Meadow, NY Anthony Cummings, of counsel to the litigation practice group at Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, LLP, was recently voted president elect/first vice president and designated chair of the development committee of Hope for Youth. Hope For Youth operates an array of services for children, youth and families, which span a continuum of care from outpatient clinical and preventive services to foster care, diagnostic and emergency services and other residential programs including our original therapeutic group home program. The organization serves children as young as six months of age through age 21 and families from across the Long Island region. With seven residential facilities, over 50 foster homes, and 130 staff, Hope For Youth has grown into one of Long Island’s pre-eminent providers of children and family services.

Cummings is also an officer of the Amistad Long Island Black Bar Association. He has served as an associate editor of the Journal for the Suffolk Academy of Law, as co-chair of the Suffolk County Bar Association Appellate Practice Committee, and as an officer of the Suffolk Academy of Law.

He has taught forensic examination and business law as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Forensic Examination at Touro College School of Health Sciences and as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law at Hofstra University Zarb School of Business. He also taught as an Adjunct Instructor of Business at Wake Technical Community College and as an Adjunct Instructor of Law at Suffolk Community College. He is currently a faculty member at Marino Legal Academy where he periodically delivers continuing legal education lectures on various topics.

He earned his Bachelor of Science in Applied Economics from Hofstra University, his Juris Doctor from the Hofstra University School of Law and his Master of Business Administration from the University of North Carolina, Kenan-Flagler Business School.  In addition, he has achieved the highest professional rating from Martindale Hubbell.

Cummings has been admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York; U.S. Court of Federal Claims; U.S. Tax Court; U.S. Court of Military Appeals; U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit; U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit; U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit; U.S. Supreme Court, and in the District of Columbia and the states of North Carolina and New York.

Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, LLP is Long Island’s second largest full-service law firm with offices in Nassau and Suffolk Counties and New Jersey. Its 15 practice areas include: real estate, real property tax certiorari and condemnation, cooperative and condominium, land use/environmental law, corporate/securities, litigation, commercial lending, labor relations/employment law, bankruptcy and debtor/creditor rights, nonprofit/tax exempt/religious organizations law, trusts and estates, elder law, telecommunications law, and criminal law.