It is with great pleasure that I write this article for the New York Law Journal in this year’s Law Day edition on the topic of “Law in the 21st Century: Enduring Traditions, Emerging Challenges.”

I am a second generation lawyer, having been practicing law with my father, Guy R. Vitacco Sr., for the past 21 years. So I have first hand knowledge of enduring traditions but also am seeing emerging challenges here in the 21st century with regard to the practice of law, especially in Queens County, New York.