East Meadow, May 1 – For the past seven years on a weekly basis, fifteen (15) attorneys and staff from the East Meadow law firm, Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, LLP, have traded in their power lunches to spend an hour with third and fourth graders at Walnut Elementary School in Uniondale.  The program is called “LIKE,” which stands for Lawyers Involved in Kids’ Education, and it is affiliated with the Mentoring Partnership of Long Island.  Fred Skolnik, a partner in the Corporate/Securities Practice Group, even created word games for the students to help them with the New York State Education Language Arts (“ELA”) standard examination and to improve their analytical skills.

But now the mentors of the LIKE program have something different planned for their mentees.  About 15 of the students, together with many of the mentors and their family members, are scheduled to take a field trip to the Sweet Hills Riding Center, located in the West Hills County Park on Sweet Hollow Road in Huntington, on Saturday, May 14th. The students will take a bus from the school and arrive at approximately 10:00 a.m.  They will learn about horses, how to care for them, and be taken on a guided trail ride. They will also have the opportunity to watch Steven Kuperschmid, an avid equestrian and partner in the Corporate/Securities Practice Group at Certilman Balin, demonstrate his horse’s jumping skills. They will be back at the school by approximately 2:00 p.m.

Walnut Elementary School in Uniondale has been recognized as one of the National Schools of Character, and the school credits their involvement in the LIKE program as one of the reasons for its success.

For further information about this event, contact Debra Scala-Giokas, Director of Marketing, at (516) 296-7087. The rain date will be Saturday, May 21. More information about Sweet Hills Riding Center may be found at www.sweethillsstable.com or by calling 631-351-9168. More information about the Mentoring Partnership of Long Island may be found at www.mentorkids.org or by calling 631-761-7600.

Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, LLP has grown into Long Island’s second largest full-service law firm with offices in Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Its 14 practice areas include: real estate, real property tax certiorari and condemnation, cooperative and condominium, land use, environmental law, corporate/securities, litigation, commercial lending, labor relations/employment law, bankruptcy and debtor/creditor rights, trusts and estates, elder law, telecommunications law, and criminal law.