Meet Hudson Valley Law Partners, PLLC
Theodore Guterman II, Esq.
Ted has been a practicing attorney in Columbia County for more than 30 years. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Albany Law School. He is the past President of the Columbia County Bar Association and past Chairman of the Board of Columbia Greene Community College. Ted is a member of the New York State Bar Association, Elder Law Section, as well as the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. Ted specializes in the areas of Estates, Trusts and Elder Law, helping people plan for the management and direction of their estates during their lifetime, as well as upon their death. Ted also practices extensively in the areas of real estate, title insurance, residential and commercial mortgage closings. Ted resides in the Town of Chatham, New York, with his wife and daughter. Ted also has two older children, one living in East Chatham and the other in Texas.
Ted is admitted to practice in the State of New York.
Scott D. Shallo, Esq.
Scott graduated from The University of Vermont in 1989, magna cum laude, with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. In 1992, he earned a Juris Doctor, cum laude, at the Albany Law School of Union University.
Scott practices as both an attorney and certified public accountant, and is the recipient of the Herbert Cohen Prize for law school graduate with greatest potential for excellence in corporate law and taxation.
He is a member of the Real Property Law Section, Trusts and Estates Section and the Elder Law Section of the New York State Bar Association, and is also a member of the Columbia County Bar Association.
Scott is a former board member of the National Union Bank of Kinderhook and the Columbia Greene Humane Society, Inc. He is the former Treasurer of the Hudson Opera House, Inc. and the former Treasurer of Hudson Area Association Library.
Scott is admitted to practice in the State of New York.
Matthew D. Cabral, Esq.
Matt graduated from Boston College in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature. He earned his Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, from Suffolk University Law School in 2009. He is admitted to practice in Maine, Massachusetts, and New York. Matt began his legal career as a defense litigator, but now focuses his practice on estate planning and elder law, municipal law, real estate, and general business law. Matt has been designated in the Thompson Reuters publication Super Lawyers as an Upstate New York Rising Star in the legal profession. He resides in Kinderhook with his wife, Katherine, and their three young daughters and is a former Chairman of the Village of Kinderhook Planning Board and former Trustee of the Kinderhook Memorial Library.
Matt is admitted to practice law in the courts of New York State, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Matthew J. Griesemer, Esq.
Matt concentrates his practice in the areas of civil litigation, commercial and residential real estate, business formation and representation, zoning and land use planning as well as estate planning and estate representation. Matt is also employed as an Adjunct Professor at Albany Law School where he teaches Trial Practice I: Civil and Trial Practice II: Civil, Client Counseling, and Trial Advocacy.
Matt regularly represents plaintiffs and defendants in local, State and federal courts throughout New York. Before joining Hudson Valley Law Partners, PLLC, he was a partner in a local firm since 2011, and before that was employed at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York and the Litigation Bureau of the New York State Attorney General’s Office. While in law school, Matt was a member of the Albany Law Review where he served as Executive Editor for Research and Writing.
Matt was recognized as a member of the 2024 and 2023 Super Lawyers list, a peer-influenced list of the top 5% attorneys in the area. He was also named a 2023 and 2022 Lawyer of Distinction in the field of Civil Litigation. For the years 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2022, he was named a "Rising Star" in New York Super Lawyers, and is the recipient of the International Advisory Experts Award in Civil Litigation and Real Estate Law. Matt has likewise been named as one of America's Top 100 Civil Defense Litigators for 2019 through 2023. He was also nominated as a Premier Lawyer of America.
Matt is admitted to practice law in the courts of New York State, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as well as the United States District Courts for the Northern District of New York and the Western District of New York. In addition, he is an active member of the New York State Bar Association, where he serves as a Delegate to the House of Delegates, a member of the Nominating Committee and a member of the Committee on Leadership Development.
Matt received his B.A., magna cum laude, Political Science from Binghamton University (2004) and his J.D., cum laude from Albany Law School of Union University (2007).
Nelson Alford Jr., Esq.
Nelson R. (Dick) Alford, Jr., was born and raised in the Village of Chatham, New York. He is a graduate of Wake Forest University and Albany Law School where he was a member of the Law Review and the Justinian Society.
He was a Captain in the United States Army Reserve and served as Commanding Officer of the 18th Signal Detachment (Intel) in Vietnam from 1965 to 1966.
Dick's areas of practice include residential and commercial real estate, title insurance, wills, trusts, estates, and municipal law. He is the attorney for the Town of Hillsdale and the Hillsdale-Copake Fire District. He represents several mortgage lenders in connection with commercial and residential real estate transactions.
He is a member of the Real Property Law Section, Trusts and Estates Section, Elder Law Section, and Municipal Law Section of the New York State Bar Association, and is also a member of the Columbia County Bar Association. He was a former member of the Independent Judicial Nomination Qualification Commission for the Third Judicial District of the State of New York.
Dick is a member and past President of the Hillsdale Fire Company, and is also the President of the Columbia County Agricultural Society, Inc. and the annual Columbia County Fair.
Dick is admitted to practice in the State of New York.