August 29, 2017"” Barclay Damon had 46 attorneys included in The Best Lawyers in America 2018. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation. For the 2018 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America, 7.4 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in more than 58,000 leading lawyers being included in the new edition.
The following Barclay Damon attorneys in The Best Lawyers in America 2018 are located in the Albany office:
Linda J. Clark, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants
Yvonne E. Hennessey, Litigation – Environmental
Edward J. Trombly, Real Estate Law
Melissa M. Zambri, Health Care Law
The following Barclay Damon attorneys in The Best Lawyers in America 2018 are located in the Buffalo office:
Hedwig M. Auletta, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
Susan A. Benz, Health Care Law
Timothy C. Cashmore, Banking and Financial Law, Corporate Law, and Mergers and Acquisitions
Thomas J. Drury, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
Anne C. Evans, Real Estate Law
James W. Gormley, Corporate Law and Health Care Law
Christopher T. Greene, Corporate Law and Health Care Law
Vincent P. Hauber, Litigation – Real Estate and Real Estate Law
Robert P. Heary, Employment Law – Management
Franklin W. Heller, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtors Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law and Commercial Litigation
Gary R. Maas, Corporate Law and Health Care Law
Peter S. Marlette, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Action – Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
Dennis R. McCoy, Personal Injury and Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
Mark R. McNamara, Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law
Vincent J. Moore, Real Estate Law
Laurence B. Oppenheimer, Employment Law – Management
Randolph C. Oppenheimer, Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management, and Litigation – Labor and Employment
Robert J. Portin, Corporate Law and Health Care Law
Gust P. Pullman, Corporate Law
Carol G. Snider, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants
Kevin D. Szczepanski, Insurance Law
Catherine T. Wettlaufer, Trusts and Estates
Frederick A. Wolf, Administrative/Regulatory Law, Banking and Finance Law, Financial Services Regulations Law, and Land Use and Zoning Law.
Gregory Zini, Commercial Litigation
The following Barclay Damon attorneys in The Best Lawyers in America 2018 are located in the Clarence office:
Victoria L. D'Angelo, Trusts and Estates
Jeffery D. Palumbo, Environmental Law, Land Use and Zoning Law, and Real Estate Law.
The following Barclay Damon attorneys in The Best Lawyers in America 2018 are located in the Rochester office:
Thomas B. Cronmiller, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
James S. Grossman, Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law
Anthony J. Piazza, Insurance Law
Robert M. Shaddock, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
Thomas F. Walsh, Environmental Law and Litigation – Environmental
John R. Weider, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law and Litigation – Bankruptcy.
The following Barclay Damon attorneys in The Best Lawyers in America 2018 are located in the Syracuse office:
James J. Canfield, Corporate Law
Daniel J. French, Criminal Defense: White-Collar
Andrew J. Leja, Environmental Law
Kevin R. McAuliffe, Project Finance Law
Douglas J. Nash, Commercial Litigation
Judith M. Sayles, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
Michael J. Sciotti, Employment Law Management, Labor Law Management, and Litigation – Labor and Employment
John P. Sindoni, Real Estate Law
Gerald F. Stack, Tax Law
Stephen H. Oleskey, resident in the firm's Boston office, was named for Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law.
In addition to being included on the Best Lawyers list, two attorneys were recognized as "Lawyer of the year." Only a single lawyer in each practice area and designated metropolitan area is bestowed the "Lawyer of the Year" honor.
Christopher T. Greene was named the Best Lawyers® 2018 Corporate Law "Lawyer of the Year" in Buffalo.
Vincent J. Moore was named the Best Lawyers® 2018 Real Estate Law "Lawyer of the Year" in Buffalo.
"Barclay Damon is honored and thrilled to see so many of our attorneys recognized for the quality of their work and their dedication to our clients," said John P. Langan, Barclay Damon's managing partner.
Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. 83,000 industry leading attorneys are eligible to vote (from around the world), and Best Lawyers has received almost 10 million evaluations on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers "the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice."
Barclay Damon, listed as a "Top 250 Firm" by The National Law Journal, is a full-service, 275-attorney law firm, with offices throughout the major cities of New York State, as well as in Boston, Washington, Newark, N.J. and Toronto, providing comprehensive legal and business counsel to a diverse client base in 33 practice areas. For more information on Barclay Damon, visit www.barclaydamon.com.