Howard Protter
Municipal Law Section

Howard Protter, managing partner of Jacobowitz & Gubits, is the new chair of the 1,065-member Municipal Law Section of the New York State Bar Association.

Protter is a member of his firm’s Municipal Law Team and leads the firm's International and Intellectual Property practice areas on the Business Team. He was village attorney for Cornwall-on-Hudson 1982-2008 and the Tuxedo town counsel since 1996.

His primary practice has been devoted to municipal law and litigation, representing local governments and municipal officials in Orange, Ulster, Sullivan and Putnam counties since 1983 in various types of municipal litigation, labor relations, disciplinary proceedings, land use and environmental matters.

Protter most recently served as first vice-chair of the Municipal Law Section. He also is a member of the Committee on Mass Disaster Response.

Protter chairs the Orange County Bar Association’s Municipal Law Committee and is a member of the Ethics Committee. He also is a member of the American Bar Association’s Government, Member, Operations and Liability Committee.

Protter received his undergraduate degree from the State University of New York at New Paltz and earned his law degree from New York Law School.