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Drew & Drew LLP currently has two members:  Dean A. Drew and Dean M. Drew.

 

Dean A. Drew is a graduate of the University of Buffalo (B.A., 1950) and the University of Buffalo Law School (LL.B., 1953).  At the time the University of Buffalo Law School became a part of the State University system in 1968, and was re-inaugurated as the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School in 1968, he was awarded a J.D. degree.  He joined his parents, the late DeSilver G. Drew and Edna M. Drew, in the Drew & Drew law firm in 1953 and has practiced there since.  Dean A. Drew is admitted to practice in New York and the United States District Court for the Western District of New York.  Over the past 50 years, his practice has been concentrated in estate planning and probate and real estate law, and litigation involving those areas at the trial and appellate levels.  He is a member of the New York State Bar Association (Trusts and Estates Section).  He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II where he was trained as a pilot.  Although no longer actively flying, he holds an FAA pilot certificate.  He is a Life Member of the Board of Directors of Kevin Guest House, a welcome house and support facility in Buffalo, New York for families of cancer victims receiving treatment at the Roswell Park Cancer Center.  (Kevin Guest House was founded in the 1960’s and became the model for what was later to become the system of Ronald McDonald Houses throughout the United States.)

 

Dean M. Drew is a graduate of the State University of Buffalo (B.A., 1972) and the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School (J.D., 1977).  He joined his father, Dean A. Drew, in the Drew and Drew law firm in 1978. Dean M. Drew is admitted to practice in New York and the United States District Court for the Western District of New York.  His practice is concentrated in the area of aviation law where he handles a broad range of matters, and litigation in that area at the trial and appellate levels. Dean M. Drew is a member of the American Bar Association (Air and Space Forum), the Aviation Insurance Association, the Bar Association of Erie County (Federal Practice Committee), the Lawyer Pilots Bar Association and the NTSB Bar Association.  He is a panel attorney in the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) Legal Services Plan.  He holds a commercial pilot certificate for single- and multi-engine aircraft with instrument rating and high-altitude endorsement and is active as a pilot.  Dean M. Drew is active in the Buffalo affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International as a volunteer construction site supervisor.

 
 

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