Rita J. Tino has been an attorney for over 30 years and is the founder of the Law Office of Rita J. Tino, a Real Estate Law Firm in Rye, NY. Rita started her legal career as an Assistant District Attorney in Westchester County in 1990. After several years she went onto became an assistant trial attorney at the law firm of Bivona and Cohen in Manhattan, practicing personal injury defense firm. Rita then returned to Westchester after the birth of her first child to work as a Trial Attorney for Thomas M. Bona, P.C., where she tried and won numerous cases and appeals.

In 1999, she started the Law Office of Rita J. Tino where her practice focuses on residential purchase and sales transactions, as well as landlord tenant matters. Rita has lived in the Rye/Harrison area for over 25 years and is married to Frank A. Longo, a plaintiff’s personal injury attorney in Manhattan. They have three children.

Rita has and currently dedicates much of her time and efforts to multiple community service organizations including Resurrection Church in Rye where she is a Eucharistic Minister and was a catechist for many years, The Children’s Hope Chest, The Pleasantville Cottages (a home for emotionally disadvantaged teens), the YWCA and was a member of the Domestic Violence Committee in Westchester County. She was also always active on the PTA boards of her children’s schools.

Currently, Rita is the President of the Rotary Club of Rye where their motto is “Service above Self” and is the recipient of the Paul Harris Fellow Award. Rita is on the board of the Harrison Library Foundation and is a member of the NY State Bar Association and a former Officer of the Westchester Women’s Bar Association.

Further Reading:

Westchester Women’s Bar Association: Standing Committees | Family Friendly Award

Read more about Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Biography.com) and the high school she attended, James Madison High School in Brooklyn, NY.

“Judicial Diversity: A Work in Progress” (New York State Bar Association, 2014)

“Law 360s 2019 Glass Ceiling Report Shows Few New Cracks” (American Bar Association, 2019)

• The report finds that although women make up more than half of law school students, women represent just 36.3 percent of attorneys at firms, and of those, 45.5 percent are non-partners. Among partners, women represent only 24.5 percent of the group and account for just 21.5 percent of the equity partners.

• See the report from 2018 here.

  
  

“Forget The Glass Ceiling. Female Attorneys Now Face A Concrete Wall” (Forbes, 2018)

• 35% of private practice attys surveyed are women, 21% equity partners. Shows little or no progress. 4/5 of equity partners are men. 45% of all non-partners, associates, of counsel and staff attorneys are women.

May Every Woman Find Her Marty Ginsburg (Vogue, 2020)

“Who Is Supreme Court Nominee Amy Coney Barrett?” (NPR, 2020)

“Barbara Lagoa Would Bring an Atypical Background to the Supreme Court” (Wall Street Journal, 2020)

“Then Comes The Marriage Question” (New York Times, 2010)

More information about Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.

The RBG Way: The Secrets of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Success by Rebecca Gibian