Carolyn Reinach Wolf is an Executive Partner in the law firm of Abrams, Fensterman, Fensterman, Eisman, Formato, Ferrara, Wolf & Carone, LLP and Director of the Firm’s Mental Health Law practice.
Ms. Wolf’s practice concentrates in the areas of mental health and health care law, representing families and individuals, major hospital systems and community hospitals, outpatient programs, mental health and health care professionals, higher educational institutions, and skilled nursing facilities. Her practice includes mental hygiene law, including retention and treatment over objection psychiatric cases; mental health warrants; capacity determinations; informed consent and medical treatment cases; confidentiality and release of records matters; interaction with law enforcement in family matters, health care facilities and institutions of higher education; Kendra’s Law applications (Assisted Outpatient Treatment Orders); Article 81 and 17-A guardianship proceedings; civil and criminal litigation and negotiation specific to mental health issues; consultation and advice in navigating the mental health system and legal interventions in the inpatient and outpatient treatment settings as well as mental health issues in the higher education setting.
Ms. Wolf is a member of a number of professional organizations and is currently President of NaBITA. She holds a J.D. from Hofstra University School of Law, an M.S. in Health Services Administration from the Harvard School of Public Health and an M.B.A. in Management from the Hofstra University School of Business. Ms Wolf is currently an adjunct professor at Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, teaching “Law and Psychiatry”.
Admissions
- New York
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court Southern District of New York
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
- U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims
Honors
- Selected as a New York Super Lawyer since 2013