The Post Standard reported that Brad Pinsky has a “Reputation For Winning” (2/21/2003) and winning is what clients have come to expect from him.

Mr. Pinsky has unparalleled experience representing fire departments, fire districts, ambulance services, and individual emergency medical technicians and firefighters throughout NYS. He represents numerous villages and towns as special counsel for their fire and E.M.S. services. He represents his clients in all aspects related to their operations, including, but certainly not limited to, providing advice on day to day operations and laws, representation in litigation, performing administrative and government relation services, advising on compliance with state and federal laws, drafting and revising bylaws and policies, protecting the leadership from liability, financing fire and ambulance equipment, and forming Fire Protection Districts, Fire Districts, Joint Fire Districts, and Ambulance Districts, and consolidating fire departments.

Mr. Pinsky represents agencies throughout New York State, from Buffalo to Albany, and from the far eastern end of Long Island to the Canadian borders. Mr. Pinsky regularly attends bi-weekly and monthly meetings of fire districts throughout the state.

Mr. Pinsky has been repeatedly victorious in litigation and frequently argues in NYS trial courts and the Appellate Division. In 2017 he successfully obtained Leave to Appeal to the New York’s highest court, the NYS Court of Appeals, where less than two-percent of applications requesting permission to appeal were granted.

Mr. Pinsky is the author of the popular “Fire Department Law and Management Resource Manual,” and the “Fire Service Secretary & Treasurer’s Manual”, each owned by hundreds of fire departments throughout New York State. Mr. Pinsky lectures throughout the nation at large and small conferences, including FDIC in Indianapolis. Mr. Pinsky authors articles for several popular publications, including Fire Engineering and Fire News. He is the host of Fire Engineering’s monthly radio show, “Fire Service Court Radio.”

Mr. Pinsky served 3.5 years as the Chief of the Manlius Fire Department, a combination fire department running over 2600 calls per year. He served as one of the only Municipal Training Officers of a paid department in the state of New York who is a volunteer. Mr. Pinsky was certified as an Emergency Medical Technician from 1988 until 2010 and in that time served as a volunteer and career EMT in Boston and New Orleans. In 2015 he was named the IAFC’s “Training Officer of the Year.”

Ms. Pinsky is a paralegal in the law firm. She concentrates her practice on tax exempt matters, and each year, in cooperation with Brad Pinsky, prepares numerous tax returns and tax exempt applications for not for profit corporations. She prepares end of year reports (AUD) for fire districts in cooperation with Brad Pinsky. In conjunction with legal work performed by the firm, Ms. Pinsky also maintains financial records for not for profit corporations, fire departments, ambulance services and multiple fire districts.

Ms. Pinsky is a member of the Manlius Fire Department. She also serves as the secretary for a local fire district and is actively involved in volunteering in her community.

She serves as the office manager and as the conference manager for the law firm’s popular “Law and Management” Conferences.

Mr. Longstreth, the newest, budding attorney to join the Pinsky Law Group, graduated from Drexel University Kline School of Law in 2022. His dedication to public service is evident in his experience. Mr. Longstreth is a firefighter and educator. Before joining the Pinsky Law Group, he served as an elementary school teacher in Memphis, TN, and as a Member for Teach For America Corps. Prior to his move to New York, he served as a volunteer firefighter at Vernon Central Hose Company in his hometown of Meadville, PA and looks forward to continuing his service with a local fire department.

Mr. Longstreth’s legal experience includes work for the Crawford County, PA Public Defender’s Office. His work there was instrumental in providing legal representation to indigent citizens. As a law student, Mr. Longstreth worked for a private criminal defense firm in Philadelphia. His work centered on fighting systemic corruption in the city and investigating improper convictions in decades-old homicide cases. A fellow with the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project, Mr. Longstreth spent time teaching the U.S. Constitution and oral advocacy to high school students in the City of Brotherly Love.

An alum of The Pennsylvania State University, Mr. Longstreth earned his bachelor’s degree in business management with a concentration in human capital management. At Penn State, he served on advisory boards, committees, and the student government, benefiting the lives of tens of thousands of students. He also worked at the Northwest Pennsylvania Workforce Development Board and the Erie County Office of Children and Youth. Previously a legal intern at the Pinsky Law Group, Mr. Longstreth looks forward to utilizing his talents to represent Fire and EMS services throughout the state and expanding the practice beyond.