Cooperstown, New York · Otsego County
Loom Light Legal is a solo law firm in Cooperstown, New York, serving Otsego County and the surrounding region. The firm handles family law, divorce, estate planning, criminal and traffic defense, and pet law. One attorney handles every matter from the first call through resolution.
A 10-minute intake, in your own words · No obligation attached to it · You speak with Dale directly
Index
One attorney across all five — which is where the overlaps get noticed.
Practice Areas
Matters rarely stay in one category. A separation becomes an estate question; a traffic charge becomes a license problem. You work with the same attorney across all of it.
Custody, support, and the agreements that have to hold after the hearing ends.
Featured practice
Contested, uncontested, and collaborative divorce in New York — and what separating actually involves.
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Wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and the orderly transfer of what you have built.
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Traffic violations, misdemeanors, and 18B assigned counsel matters in New York courts.
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Pet trusts, pet custody, and provisions written around the best interest of the animal.
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The Loom Light Difference
Four operating commitments, each written as something measurable rather than something felt.
Before any work begins you receive a written scope and a fee structure for that scope.
Dale Riedel owns your matter and is who you speak to — not an intake team, and not a rotating desk.
You are contacted at a defined interval whether or not something has changed, so silence never means uncertainty.
Secure review, signature and storage. Nothing important arrives only as an email attachment.
One attorney, from the first conversation through to resolution.
The Attorney
Managing Attorney · Admitted in New York
Loom Light Legal represents clients in family law, divorce, estate planning, criminal defense, and pet law. It is a solo practice by design: the lawyer a client hires is the lawyer who learns the facts, answers the questions, and stands beside the client when the matter must be decided.
Working with us
What it costs
A written scope and a fee structure, agreed before work begins.
10 minutes
A short intake in your own words. No legal terminology required, and no obligation attached to it.
Consultation
A working conversation with Dale. You leave with the realistic routes, what each costs, and what each risks.
Engagement
A written scope, a fee structure and a sequence of steps with dates attached. You approve it before work begins.
Ongoing
Execution with scheduled updates, so at any point you can say where the matter stands without asking.
Where we work
Cooperstown · Otsego County / Virtual consultation statewide
Begin
Tell us what is happening in a few sentences. We will tell you whether it is something we handle, what the realistic options are, and what it costs to find out more.
Consultation request
Do not submit confidential or time-sensitive information. Sending this form does not create an attorney-client relationship.
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