Lectures & Public Speaking

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We believe that when we impart knowledge we generate possibilities—and those possibilities, in turn, inspire the visions which our attorneys & consultants strategize to create a new & improved reality for our communities.

J.K. Hage III lectures and engages audiences in forums, symposiums, and expositions on topics that relate to our business law, energy & consulting practices at Hage & Hage LLC.

Lectures & Engagements

• “Energy Efficiency Opportunities for Small Business Owners” Mohawk Valley Chamber of Commerce, Utica, NY
• “Eleventh Annual Institute of Public Utility Law” NY State Bar Association, Albany NY
• “Ninth Annual Institute on Public Utility Law,” NY State Bar Association, Albany, NY

• “The RLEC Existential Dilemma: Buy, Sell or Hold?” NY State Telecommunications Association, Lake George, NY

• “Eighth Annual Institute on Public Utility Law,” NY State Bar Association, Albany, NY

• “Legal Perspectives in Cyber Security” Albany Law Journal of Science & Technology Symposium, Albany, NY

• “Sixth Annual Institute on Public Utility Law,” NY State Bar Association, Albany, NY

• “Municipal Franchising Requirements for Telecommunications Providers & Municipalities Offering Telecommunications Services,” NY State Telecommunications Association, Albany, NY

• “Successful Strategies for Closely-Held & Family Businesses,” National Telephone Cooperative Association, Boston, Massachusetts

• “Ethical Issues for Public Utility Lawyers,” NY State Bar Association, Albany, NY

• “Local Zoning & the Wireless Revolution: Update on the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and Wireless Facility Siting in New York,” NY State Bar Association, Albany, NY

• “The Streets—The Final Frontier,” NY State Telecommunications Association, Albany, NY

Contact us to schedule Mr. Hage to speak about topics related to our law & consulting firm.

News & Info

25 May 2010, Hage & Hage LLC featured in the July/August Issue of Green Business Quarterly Magazine.

22 February 2010, Utica R2G core committee established in a meeting held at the Hage Building. The Rust to Green Project partners Cornell University with the cities of Utica and Binghamton to create a viable model for promoting sustainable growth initiatives. The R2G project extends from the needs and potentials identified by the Brookings Institution report Restoring Prosperity: The State Role in Restoring America’s Older Industrial Cities (2007). The report indicates that Utica, Binghamton and five other former industrial cities in New York are poised to overcome challenges to recover and rebuild within the coming decades due to their extant assets, including building stock, civic and neighborhood institutions, universities and transportation. Hage & Hage is happy to serve on this core committee which will advance the objectives of the R2G Initiative and the sustainable growth of Utica, NY.

14 January 2010, Mohawk Valley Chamber of Commerce Small Business, Hage & Hage LLC and Eastern Energy Solutions sponsored a seminar ‘Energy Efficiency Opportunities for Small Business Owners;’ presenters included Hage & Hage LLC, Eastern Energy Solutions, NYSERDA and National Grid; the seminar focused on the energy needs and issues affecting businesses within the Utica-Rome & Mohawk Valley Region. The seminar was given at the Hage Building and attendees were provided the opportunity to tour the region’s first LEED® certified office building.

15 October 2009, the Downtown Utica Arts District Sculpture Initiative was kicked off by the dedication of its first sculpture, a 9-foot tall, 5-foot wide iron tree that features individual branches and realistic bark. The tree was created by students in the Welders Among Community program at Mohawk Valley Community College. This piece of art is made from scrap iron that had accumulated in the welding shop during student training sessions. It was commissioned by J.K. Hage III, a local business man & attorney who is a strong advocate for sustainability. Hage’s building recently received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. It is the first privately-owned commercial office building between Albany and Syracuse to achieve this status.

28 September 2009, The office of Hage & Hage achieved Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for New Construction (LEED® NC) Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) Green Building Certification Institute. The USGBC’s LEED® system provides third-party verification that a building was designed and built using strategies aimed at improving performance across all the metrics that matter most: energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts. The Hage Building is the first and only office building in the region to achieve LEED® NC certification and one of only a few in New York State to achieve Gold. (full article)