Bio

Jill C. Stone graduated in 1986 from the Inaugural class of the City University of New York Law School at Queens College. She has devoted her practice to Criminal, Matrimonial and Family law having practiced in the Law Firm of Addabbo and Greenberg, LLP, a family based law firm where she has practiced with her father and continues to practice with her brother.

She is a member of the Attorney for Children Panel in the Nassau County Family Court and Supreme Court since 1996, where she has handled hundreds of cases with regard to Matrimonial and Family Court actions representing children of all ages in custody, visitation, abuse, PINS, juvenile delinquency, and neglect cases. She is a member of the Nassau County Bar Association, the Nassau County Women’s Bar Association, the Queens County Women’s Bar Association, and an Advisory Board Member of We Care Committee which serves as the charitable arm of the Nassau County Bar Association. In addition, Ms. Stone is a member of the New York Family Law American Inn of Court and a member of the Nassau County Matrimonial Committee.

Since 1996, Ms. Stone has been a member of the Committee on Character and Fitness of the Appellate Division, Second Department for the Second, Tenth and Eleventh Judicial Districts and has been appointed as a member of the Advisory Committee for Judicial Hearing Officers. Ms. Stone has lectured both at the Hofstra University School of Law as well as St. John’s University School of Law, lecturing on both family and matrimonial matters. She continues to be a Mentor, as part of the Family Law Externship Program for the Family Law class at Hofstra School of Law, as well as part of the Senior Experience for a High School mentoring students

interested in the practice of law. She continues to lecture to the summer interns who participate in the Nassau County Summer Internship Program and spends time as a participant lecturing for CLE credit for the New York State Bar Association on Custody and Financial seminars. She has participated in virtual Webinars concerning Family and Matrimoinal matters.

In addition, Ms. Stone has appeared on national television as the legal expert on children’s rights for the Sally Jessie Rafael Show. She has received the Juridis Peridis Award from the Court Officers Benevolent Association, which is presented to outstanding Attorneys who practice in the Nassau County Courts and the Virginia Dunkin award from the Nassau County Women’s Bar Association recognizing her outstanding educational mentoring of young people who are interested in the legal profession. She is a member of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts and was a panel member for the organization on the topic of The Voices of Children in Divorce.

Further, she has been quoted on numerous occasions in the New York Law Journal as well as various local newspapers and was named Superlawyer 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, 2020. Ms. Stone has been selected by Peer Recognition and Professional Achievement as a Top Woman Attorney in the New York Metro Area. Ms. Stone has been recognized as a 2016 Top Legal Eagle in Nassau – Suffolk County.