Columbian Lawyers have first meeting under new president Linda LoCascio

September 8, 2017 By Paul Frangipane Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Robert Abrams, of Abrams, Fensterman, Fensterman, Eisman, Formato, Ferrara, Wolf & Carone, LLP, was the first CLE speaker of the season for the Columbian Lawyers Association of Brooklyn on Tuesday. Eagle photos by Paul Frangipane.

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The Columbian Lawyers Association of Brooklyn held its first meeting of the year under new President Linda LoCascio on Tuesday. The meeting featured a continuing legal education (CLE) seminar about sepulcher by Abrams Fensterman’s Robert Abrams.

Since LoCascio’s installation in June, she’s had plans to bring the association back to old traditions that helped her in her career. Specifically, she wants to bring back the tradition of experienced lawyers sponsoring upcoming attorneys to help spread the association’s ideals through generations.

“This has been the one constant in my career,” LoCascio said about the association, deeming it a “wonderful resource of knowledge.”

In alignment with her presidential ideals, LoCascio plans to host a young lawyers’ night in March to help law students and new lawyers network within the association.

In keeping up with current traditions, the Columbian Lawyers enjoyed their meeting with dinner at Rex Manor in Borough Park while hearing a CLE lecture from Robert Abrams about sepulcher in murder.

“Sepulcher is this really great tool for victims,” Abrams, a New York Law School graduate, said to the packed room. “These people need a voice.”

The right of sepulcher is the right of a person or family to control the burial, cremation or final doings of a dead body.

Abrams educated the crowd on the topic by bringing up recent or ongoing murder cases where family members have the right to sepulcher after their relative was murdered.

Of the few sepulcher cases Abrams is working on, the Robert Durst murder case may be the highest profile.

The 74-year-old Durst is accused of the murder of his friend and the disappearance of his wife in a 36-year-old case.

Even though the relatives of the murdered were subject to hard times, Abrams explained that the right of sepulcher could provide some power for family members in the wake of the murders.

Despite the dark topic, the crowd was engaged in asking constant questions about the cases.