ROBERT MADLINGER has joined the Mohawk Valley Health System (MVHS) Surgical Group, where he will serve as the chief of trauma, acute care, and surgical critical care, as well as program director for General Surgery. He joins MVHS from St. Joseph’s University Medical Center, Paterson, New Jersey, where he was chief of trauma and surgical critical care as well as director of advanced trauma life support. Madlinger was Commander of the 1st Forward Resuscitative Surgical Team, Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, New York, a detachment of Utica’s 865th Combat Support Hospital. He has served three tours in Afghanistan. He received his doctor of osteopathic medicine from Kansas City University of Medicine and Bioscience in Kansas City, Missouri. Madlinger performed his internship and residency in general surgery at St. Barnabus Hospital in Bronx, New York and also received fellowship training in trauma and critical care from Lincoln Hospital in Bronx, New York. 

AARON C. RECORDS has joined Bousquet Holstein PLLC as an associate attorney in the firm’s brownfields practice group. He will guide clients in preparing and filing claims for the New York State Brownfield Cleanup Program tax credits, as well as defending their claims through the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance’s desk audit and full examination processes. Originally from New Hampshire, Records earned his bachelor’s degree in philosophy and creative writing from Colby-Sawyer College. He spent one semester abroad as a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholar at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Records earned his law degree at Syracuse University College of Law where he served on the Pro Bono Advisory Board, contributed to the Syrian Accountability Project, and was the editor-in-chief of Impunity Watch and the Journal of Global Rights and Organizations. After graduating from law school, he worked as an associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP’s New York City office in its State and Local Tax Income and Franchise department, assisting large clients with both income- tax consulting and compliance services.

SAMANTHA Z. KASMAREK has joined Bousquet Holstein as director of attorney recruitment and development. She will coordinate and support the attorney recruiting process as well as create professional development programs in a variety of formats that support all areas of associate attorney development. Kasmarek will also work to develop and implement a firm-wide competency model and expectations for associates as they progress on the pathway to partnership. Prior to joining the firm, she began her legal career as an attorney at Hiscock & Barclay (now Barclay Damon) in Syracuse where she concentrated on commercial litigation matters as well as torts, insurance, and products-liability issues. Kasmarek most recently worked at Syracuse University College of Law in its Career Services Office where she counseled students on career planning, and all aspects of securing legal positions, including judicial clerkships. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Le Moyne College and her law degree from SUNY Buffalo Law School.