Howard Fensterman’s son spent the summer of 2000 hauling thousands of law books into a newly merged firm’s Lake Success offices. Nobody handed Jordan Fensterman a corner office. He carried boxes.
More than two decades later, Jordan Fensterman is an executive partner at Abrams Fensterman, LLP, helping steer one of New York’s largest regional law firms through an ambitious expansion. The firm recently promoted three attorneys to executive partner, signaling a generational shift at an institution that started with 13 attorneys and has grown to about 125 across offices in Lake Success, White Plains, Brooklyn, Rochester, and Albany.
The promotions, which came early this year, elevated Jordan Fensterman, Ayman Soliman, and Jill Spielberg to the executive partner level. All three have spent years building out practice areas that now anchor the firm’s statewide footprint.
Co-founding Partner Howard Fensterman still serves as managing partner, and that continuity matters at a firm that was built explicitly on the idea that deep institutional experience and emerging leadership don’t have to be in conflict. They can feed each other.
“We have advanced succession planning in place and a very experienced team that is ready for the next generation of growth,” Jordan Fensterman told Long Island Press.
That growth looks concrete right now. Jordan Fensterman directs the firm’s OPMC and OPD defense practices, representing physicians, healthcare providers, and organizations across New York in professional discipline cases, regulatory matters, and transactions. Soliman, who serves as director of the physician practices, focuses on healthcare transactions, regulatory compliance, and government investigations. The two attorneys together have sharpened Abrams Fensterman’s reputation as a go-to firm for healthcare law in a state where that sector generates enormous legal demand.
Spielberg leads the matrimonial and family law practice in White Plains, working alongside Executive Partner RoseAnn Branda.
Healthcare law is where the firm’s growth has been most visible. New York’s Office of Professional Medical Conduct handles hundreds of physician discipline cases each year, and providers facing those proceedings need counsel who knows the terrain cold. Abrams Fensterman has positioned Jordan Fensterman’s practice to serve exactly that need.
The firm’s origins tell you something about how it approaches that kind of work. Abrams Fensterman formed from a merger of Howard Fensterman and his brother Robert Fensterman’s practice with the firm led by Robert Abrams and Ellen Flowers. Thirteen attorneys. Outsized expertise. The model from day one was depth over breadth, but the ambitions were never small.
The firm now has offices across New York and is pushing toward national expansion. That’s a significant leap from the Lake Success headquarters where a college-age Jordan Fensterman once wrestled with stacked legal volumes.
What stands out about the firm’s current structure is how deliberately it has been designed to move institutional knowledge forward without losing it. Senior attorneys provide mentorship to the next tier of leadership. The succession planning Jordan Fensterman describes isn’t just corporate language. It maps directly onto a firm that watched its founding generation build something durable and wants to make sure that durability survives the transition.
Long Island’s legal market has grown more competitive as the region’s population has aged, healthcare systems have consolidated, and family law disputes have become more financially complex. Firms that can handle regulatory matters, government investigations, and litigation under one roof carry an edge. Abrams Fensterman has structured itself to exploit that advantage.
The New York State Bar Association tracks attorney admissions and practice trends statewide, and the data consistently show healthcare law as one of the fastest-growing subspecialties in New York. Firms that built that capacity before the demand peaked are now harvesting what they planted.
For Jordan Fensterman, the arc from that summer moving books to shaping the firm’s national strategy is both personal and institutional. He grew up inside the firm’s culture, watched his father and the co-founding partners build it, and spent years earning a leadership role that wasn’t handed to him. His promotion this year wasn’t a symbolic gesture. It reflected a specific set of responsibilities, a defined practice area, and a clear role in the firm’s expansion plans.
Abrams Fensterman currently operates out of five New York offices and is eyeing growth beyond the state’s borders, with healthcare law and professional discipline defense at the center of that push. The firm’s Lake Success headquarters keeps the Long Island connection intact even as the footprint widens.