Ira Fischer

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Fischer’s Biography Ira Fischer was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY where he attended James Madison High School. He received a B.B.A. degree from The Baruch School of the City University of New York. Afterwards, he spent several years in service as a teacher in an impoverished area in Brooklyn. Ira enjoyed a special relationship with his students, who would oftentimes refer to him as “Mr. Kotter” (after the t.v. character played by Gabe Kaplan in the sitcom Welcome Back Kotter). During his teaching years, some of Ira’s most rewarding times were outside the classroom where he would frequently take his students out from their neighborhood to experience a diverse environment and enjoy activities such as ice skating, fishing and boating trips up the Hudson River. It was Ira’s interest in advocacy for the underprivileged that led him to law school where he received his juris doctor degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law. While at law school, he interned in anti-poverty advocacy on behalf of migrant farm workers, as well as advocacy for other indigent people. Upon graduation, Ira was admitted to the New York State Bar Association. After law school, Ira worked for the Legal Aid Society in Brooklyn as a senior trial attorney. When he moved to Westchester County, NY, Ira started his own law practice that concentrated on representing tenant groups whose buildings were undergoing conversion to cooperative or condominium ownership. While living in Westchester, Ira spent wondrous years in his dream house – - an old colonial farmhouse on a country road in the quaint hamlet of Bedford Village, NY – - where he was bounded by nature and amidst wildlife that he revered and adored. When not busy doing an authentic period restoration to his house, antiquing, or gardening, hiking with the Appalachian Mountain Club and the Sierra Club in the nearby Hudson Highlands was a favorite pastime on weekend breaks. Ira always had a passio

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