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If someone had told Alexandra Becker when she headed off to college in Baltimore that she’d ever move back to her small hometown in upstate New York, she’d have called that person crazy.
As it turned out, though, that person would have hit the nail on the head.
She and her husband, John, now live minutes from where she grew up in Loudonville, which is just north of the state capital of Albany, and she works in the law firm where her father is Of Counsel.
“I absolutely love it,” she says, laughing at the irony.
Nolan Heller Kaufmann LLP in downtown Albany is a boutique business law firm founded in 1964 that has established a statewide reputation for its work in creditors’ rights and bankruptcy.
Becker, who describes her practice as a “bit of an outlier” in the firm, specializes in liquor law and licensing, gaming law, and corporate and securities – areas of practice in which her father, Rich Burstein, has been invaluable as a mentor.
“Frankly, because I was working with him, and he had a lot of faith in me, I was kind of thrown into the fire a lot faster than I think I would have been otherwise,” says Becker. “I was so fortunate to have some mentors who very early on took a leap of faith on me.”
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