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Attorney Frank T. Housh |
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A Midwest native, Frank Housh began college as a classical guitar performance student at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music. In 1988, he graduated from the University of Kansas and served as President of the campus chapter of Amnesty International. In 1993, Frank earned his law degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law where he served on the Buffalo Law Review.
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Awarded a Ford Fellowship during his law school years, Frank was sent to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland where, as a legal intern to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Peoples, he drafted the U.N.’s Working Paper on the Question of the Ownership and Control of the Cultural Property of Indigenous Peoples, an issue affecting indigenous populations around the world. Also as a law student, Frank interned at the Texas Resource Center in Houston where he represented indigent inmates on Texas’s death row and enjoyed the rare opportunity of preparing a successful application to the United States Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari. These experiences have given him an exceptional breadth of knowledge, insight and understanding that have served him well in his practice of law.
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Upon his admission to the bar, Frank worked with the New York Legislature as Counsel to Assemblyman Sam Hoyt before becoming an Assistant District Attorney in 1996. As an Erie County prosecutor, he led hundreds of grand jury investigations and conducted felony jury trials. Frank subsequently entered private practice defending physicians and hospitals against claims of medical malpractice after which he served as a trial attorney for GEICO Insurance Company where he handled hundreds of personal injury lawsuits throughout New York.
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In addition to his native tongue, Frank is fluent in French, German and Mandarin Chinese.
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Frank is a member of the national Education Law Association, a Book Reviewer for the Buffalo Law Journal, a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the PEN American Center. He is a member of the Bar Association of Erie County and a Past Chair of its Criminal Law Committee. He is also a member of the New York State Bar Association and currently serves on its Committee on Legislative Policy. In 2009, Frank was elected Western Regional Vice President of the New York State Democratic Lawyer’s Council, a voting rights project of the New York State Democratic Party. Frank often appears in the media to discuss legal and public policy issues. |
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Frank is an advocate for the rights of disabled children and his practice includes counseling the families of children with special needs in the area of special education law as well as handling civil litigation, insurance work, federal criminal defense, and criminal appeals.
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