With over twenty-five years of experience, Steven L. Herrick, Esq., a Partner with the firm manages the Corporate, Commercial and Municipal Litigation practice, which provides representation to clients in all types of business-related disputes.

Steve’s affiliation enables the firm to offer a full range of litigation services, including trials and appeals in all New York state and federal courts.

After graduating with honors from Tufts University, Steve received his law degree from the prestigious University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall) School of Law. He then became Confidential Secretary to the Justices of the Appellate Division, Second Department, a state appeals court, for whom he prepared case memoranda and opinions on both appeals and motions. Thereafter, Steve entered private practice with the full-service Long Island law firm of Farrell, Fritz, P.C., where he rose to the level of partner and was co-head of the firm’s sophisticated Commercial Litigation Department, representing many high-profile clients in complex matters, conducting numerous trials and frequently arguing cases in the appellate courts. In 1991, Steve formed his own firm, where he continued his successful litigation practice first on Long Island, and then in the Albany area, until joining Tully Rinckey PLLC.

Steve is a member of the Albany County Bar Association and Chair of its Commercial / Appellate Practice Committee. He is also a member of the New York State Bar Association and its Commercial and Federal Litigation Section. He is a past member of the Judicial Hearing Officer Screening Committee for the Tenth Judicial District. He has lectured on New York civil practice at both professional associations and law schools and is a former adjunct professor of New York practice at Touro Law School . For more than a decade, Steve served as a director and officer, including six years as President, of Harbor Child Care, Inc., a nationally accredited not-for-profit provider of child care services for both communities and organizations such as North Shore University Hospital and Cablevision.

Steve and his wife Beth have two children, Molly, a published poet and graduate of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, and Spc. Andrew Herrick, a combat infantryman with the Army’s Second Stryker Brigade Combat Team, now based outside Nuremberg, Germany, after a one-year tour of duty in the Northern Iraq city of Mosul.