Our Team

Josephine is a passionate advocate for her clients, who are mostly continuing care services providers and small businesses.

Josephine has focused her practice in the area of collection of accounts receivable and recovery of assets for continuing care and other health care providers and small businesses throughout New York. Josephine's approach to each matter is bottom-line oriented and wholistic: she strives to attain the best business, practical results for her clients.

Josephine, on a daily basis, represents continuing care service providers, hospitals and health care providers in collection, asset recovery and compliance matters in Supreme Court, Surrogate's Court, Bankruptcy Court and before administrative agencies. Josephine regularly handles litigation in cases involving creditor's rights, commercial/business disputes, contract disputes, fraudulent conveyances, fraud, estate administration, guardianship, employment discrimination, non-compete and unfair competition matters and construction matters, as well as post-judgment enforcement. She has successfully conducted non-jury trials, hearings and appeals in different forums.  Josephine has handled cases throughout New York State, from Downstate counties to Onondaga, Cortland, Broome, Oswego, Madison, Jefferson, Oneida, Cayuga, Otsego, Chenango, Herkimer, Lewis, St. Lawrence, Franklin, Broome, Chemung, Montgomery, Ontario, Monroe and Erie counties.  Josephine is a Part 36 fiduciary who is eligible to serve as a guardian, counsel to a guardian, counsel to an alleged incapacitated person, court evaluator, referee, and counsel to a receiver in Onondaga, Cortland, Herkimer, Madison, Cayuga and Oswego Counties.

Before starting her own firm, Josephine was a shareholder (owner) of mid-size law firm in Syracuse and Watertown, New York, the chair of its Continuing Care Service Practice Group and a member of its Commercial Litigation and Financial Restructuring Practice Groups. Josephine clerked for and interned for United States Bankruptcy Court judges for the Southern District of New York (Honorable Adlai S. Hardin, Jr., White Plains and Honorable Burton R. Lifland, Manhattan) before relocating to Upstate New York.

 Josephine was born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan, and came to America with her family to pursue her American dreams when she was fourteen.  She attended and graduated from schools in Honolulu, Hawaii (McKinley High School), Denver, Colorado (University of Denver, B.A.), Cambridge, Massachusetts (Harvard University, Divinity School, M.T.S.), and New York City (St. John's University, School of Law, J.D.) and studied abroad in Cambridge, U.K. (Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University).

Josephine served on boards of not-for-profit organizations, including Catholic Charities of Onondaga County, Erie Canal Museum, ENABLE (now known as AcessCNY), and The Corinthian Club.  She now serves on the Board of Governors of The Century Club of Syracuse.

Josephine is admitted to practice law in New York State and all federal district and bankruptcy courts in New York State, and in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (currently inactive).  She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese. 

Josephine's Linkedin profile is found here:  Josephine Yang-Patyi | LinkedIn 

Angela Reed is a seasoned attorney with direct experience in the areas of general litigation, compliance, mental health, domestic relations, and criminal law.  A 2014 graduate of the Syracuse University College of Law, Angela also holds a Master of Science from Buffalo State College and a Master of Education from the University at Buffalo, as well as a Bachelor of Arts from Duquesne University. In law school, Angela was on the Executive Boards of Moot Court Honor Society and the Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce and was inducted into the Order of Barristers for outstanding trial advocacy skills. She also earned awards for her work in public interest law.  Angela is licensed to practice law in New York and Pennsylvania. 

Josephine Yang-Patyi is rated in the areas of Health Care, 

Estate & Trust Litigation, and Business Litigation.