RoseAnn Branda named executive partner at Abrams Fensterman

January 31, 2017 By Rob Abruzzese, Legal Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle

RoseAnn Branda, who has served as the president of both the Brooklyn Bar Association and the Columbian Lawyers Association of Brooklyn, has been named a New York Super Lawyer every year since 2008. On Monday, it was officially announced that she will serve as an executive partner at Abrams Fensterman. Eagle photo by Rob Abruzzese

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One of the elite members of Brooklyn’s legal community is getting her due as RoseAnn C. Branda was officially announced as an executive partner at the prestigious law firm of Abrams, Fensterman, Fensterman, Eisman, Formato, Ferrara & Wolf, LLP on Monday. As an executive partner, Branda will also be a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. The promotion has been in effect since Jan. 1, 2017.

“RoseAnn Branda is an uncommonly skilled and dedicated attorney,” said Howard Fensterman. Managing Partner of Abrams Fensterman. “She not only distinguishes herself as a passionate client advocate but also as one who is totally and thoroughly committed to the law and legal ethics.

“RoseAnn is an unabashed champion for clients’ rights, and for quality legal services throughout the city and state of New York,” Fensterman added. “It is for her skills as a lawyer and for her character and grace as a person that I am so very proud to name RoseAnn as an executive partner and as a member of the Abrams Fensterman Executive Committee.”

Branda is the immediate past president of the Columbian Lawyers Association of Brooklyn and a past president of the Brooklyn Bar Association.

In 2014, she was appointed to serve as a member of the Matrimonial Practice Advisory and Rules Committee by then Chief Administrative Judge of the state of New York, the Honorable A. Gail Prudenti. She was also appointed by Prudenti and the Honorable Randall T. Eng, Presiding Justice of the Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department and still serves as the Chair of the Independent Judicial Election Qualification Commission for the Second and 13th Judicial Districts.

Branda is a member of the Committee on Character and Fitness for the Second, 10th, 11th and 13th Judicial Districts and also serves as a member of the Judicial Hearing Officer Selection Advisory Committee for the Second, 11th and 13th Judicial Districts. From 1997 to 2005, she served as a member of the Grievance Committee for the Second and 11th Judicial Districts.

This puts an end to a months-long transition for Branda and her firm Caruso, Caruso and Branda, PC., which moved from 13th Avenue in Brooklyn to Abrams Fensterman in the MetroTech Center in Downtown Brooklyn.

“I am extremely honored to have been promoted to executive partner and member of the Executive Committee of Abrams Fensterman,” said Branda. “The Abrams Fensterman family is a unique and rewarding law firm environment: In addition to offering a broad array of expert legal services to individuals and business clients across New York City, throughout the state, and nationally, my colleagues and I share a devotion for delivering the highest standards of professionalism to each client while we work to strengthen both the communities we practice in and the neighborhoods in which we live.”

When asked about the transition of Caruso and Branda firm into the Abrams Fensterman back in December, executive partner Frank Carone said that the firm was looking for “bona fide aces,” and that Abrams Fensterman handpicked attorneys from the best firms in the borough.

Branda certainly fits the mold as a bona fide ace. She has been consistently recognized by her peers, clients and the community at large for her talent, ethics and passion within the field of matrimonial law, having been designated as a New York Super Lawyer every year since 2008 and more recently as one of New York’s Women Leaders in the Law for 2016. She has earned one of the most prestigious distinctions in the country from Martindale-Hubbell, where she was named a Top Rated New York Women Leader for Ethical Standards and Legal Ability.