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Hon. Brandon Sall is the Surrogate of Westchester County. He was appointed in May 2015 by Governor Andrew Cuomo and elected that November.
From October 2014 until he became Surrogate in June 2015, Judge Sall was formerly the managing member of the White Plains law firm of Sall, Geist, Schwarz & Jellinek, PLLC. Prior to that, Judge Sall was a partner in Sall & Geist from 2012 to 2014. Prior to the formation of Sall & Geist in January 2012, Judge Sall was a partner in Schuman & Sall from 1992 to 2002 and of counsel to the Yonkers law firm of Rabin, Panero and Schuman from November 1988
to July 1992. Additionally, until June 2015, Judge Sall was a partner in the White Plains law firm, Gellert & Rodner, which specializes in tax certiorari matters. Judge Sall specialized in trusts and estates and real estate law and had a significant transactional and litigation practice. In 2002, Judge Sall became general counsel to the Westchester County Public Administrator and served until June 2015.
He graduated from the University of Miami in 1982, and thereafter from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 1985.
Christos G. Papapetrou is Partner at Levine Lee LLP. He previously served as a Law Clerk for Hon. Loretta A. Preska of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and Hon. Peter G. Sheridan of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. He subsequently worked as an associate at Mayer Brown LLP. He is a graduate of Fordham University School of Law and Boston College.