About Our Practice

Pastel Rosen & Wallace, LLP is fully versed in the legislative process, and has been able to advocate on our clients behalf to enable them to operate more efficiently in New York. Pastel Rosen & Wallace, LLP has answered business, marketing and compliance questions. We have written legal memoranda for clients on a broad variety of legal topics. With respect to Insurance Law, Pastel and Rosen, LLP Pastel Rosen & Wallace, LLP has submitted conversion and acquisition plans with the New York State Department of Financial Services, prepared withdrawal plans and fraud prevention plans, initiated requests for opinions of counsel and have written several topical insurance articles for the New York Insurance Association, Inc. Pastel Rosen & Wallace, LLP has advised design professionals navigating New York’s complicated licensure and corporate formation process, allowing them to do business in New York.

Some of Pastel Rosen & Wallace, LLP’s successes on behalf of our various clients are as follows: enactment of a new law allowing for insurance against threatened acts of violence; enactment of a new law authorizing employer sponsored group personal excess insurance; prevention of the promulgation by the Department of Financial Services costly regulations; enactment of “file and serve” statute which has assisted auto insurers to identify and defend no-fault lawsuits; regulatory approval of product and rate filings; permission to operate certain commercial vehicles on state parkways, successful withdrawal from personal lines from New York; and successful creation of multi-state licensed professional corporations for the practice of professional engineering.

Pastel Rosen & Wallace, LLP uses its expertise on behalf of clients for proactive or defensive measures before the New York State Legislature, the Governor’s office, and the State agencies, including the New York State Department of Financial Services and the State Education Department. We are located near the New York State Capitol and Albany’s New York Department of Financial Services with easy access to New York City.