Green & Seifter law firm changes name to Bousquet Holstein

SYRACUSE  —  Green & Seifter, Attorneys, PLLC has a new name less than one month after its sole remaining named principal left the firm for a position at a Syracuse hospital.

The law firm is now operating as Bousquet Holstein PLLC, a moniker that combines the names of attorneys Laurence Bousquet and David Holstein, who are on its board of managers. The change comes after Lowell Seifter decided to leave the firm at the end of January to take a general-counsel post at St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center.

Seifter’s departure left the law firm without a named principal. Edward Green, who founded Green & Seifter’s predecessor practice in 1961, sold his share of the firm in 2001. And Seifter, who became a named partner in 1981, gave up his membership stake in the practice and his place on its board of managers when he moved to St. Joseph’s.

Bousquet said in January that the firm had no plans to change its name after Seifter departed. But its members ultimately opted to do so.

“Though David [Holstein] and I are both honored and humbled that the firm’s members chose our names for the masthead, it is important to note that we are the same firm, with the same commonly held beliefs, the same mission of understanding each client’s goals and providing innovative and practical counsel, and the same talented members, associates, and staff as before the name change,” Bousquet said in a news release.

Bousquet Holstein PLLC has more than 30 attorneys. It specializes in a variety of business and personal practice areas.

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