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69 Lippes Mathias Attorneys Recognized in the 2024 Edition of "The Best Lawyers in America©"

August 17, 2023 | Press Releases

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Lippes Mathias today announced that 69 of the firm’s Albany, Buffalo, Jacksonville, Rochester, and Washington, D.C.-based attorneys have been listed on the 2024 editions of The Best Lawyers in America, The Best Lawyers in America: Lawyer of the Year and The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch.

Attorneys recognized as Lawyers of the Year in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America list and their practice areas include:

Buffalo, N.Y.

Brian J. Bocketti
- Corporate Law
·Hon. Carol E. Heckman (Ret.)
- Appellate Practice
Dennis C. Vacco
- Corporate Compliance Law

Albany, N.Y.

Keith R. Jacques
- Government Relations Practice

Lippes Mathias attorneys and their respective practice areas who have been named to the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America include:

Albany, N.Y.

Conor E. Brownell
- Commercial Litigation
Frank J. Fanshawe
- Health Care Law
Keith R. Jacques
- Government Relations Practice
- Labor Law – Union
Anoush Koroghlian-Scott
- Health Care Law
·David E. Siegfeld
- Elder Law

Buffalo, N.Y.

Brian J. Bocketti
- Banking and Finance Law
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships
- Commercial Finance Law
- Corporate Law
Jillian E. Deck
- Banking and Finance Law
Thomas J. Fennell
- Real Estate Law
Raymond L. Fink
- Banking and Finance Law
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation – Bankruptcy
Nisha V. Fontaine
- Immigration Law
Scott E. Friedman
- Business Organizations (Including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Corporate Law
Thomas J. Gaffney
- Commercial Litigation
- Construction Law
- Litigation – Construction
Hon. Carol E. Heckman (Ret.)
- Appellate Practice
- Commercial Litigation
- Mediation
- Native American Law
Margaret A. Hurley
- Litigation – Real Estate
Gregory T. Ivancic
- Corporate Law
David M. Knapp
- Insurance Law
John J. Koeppel
- Venture Capital Law
Christian M. Lovelace
- Corporate Law
Brian C. Mahoney
- Commercial Litigation
Eileen M. Martin
- Immigration Law
William E. Mathias II
- Corporate Law
·Kevin T. Merriman
- Insurance Law
Paul A. Mitchell
- Corporate Law
John A. Mueller
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Litigation – Bankruptcy
Helen Osgood
- Commercial Finance Law
- Real Estate Law
Jennifer C. Persico
- Commercial Litigation
- Municipal Law
Brendan J. Rich
- Corporate Governance Law
- Corporate Law
Amy Habib Rittling
- Employment Law – Management
- Mediation
Paul J. Schulz
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Blaine S. Schwartz
- Real Estate Law
Eric M. Soehnlein
- Criminal Defense: General Practice
- Criminal Defense: White-Collar
Ryan V. Stearns
- Real Estate Law
Charles E. Telford III
Trusts and Estates
Dennis C. Vacco
- Commercial Litigation
- Corporate Compliance Law
Paul F. Wells
- Real Estate Law
Alan S. Wexler
- Real Estate Law
Andrew M. Wilson
- Immigration Law

Jacksonville, Fla.

Daniel D. Akel
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Corporate Law
Edward C. Akel
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Litigation – Trusts and Estates
- Litigation and Controversy – Tax
- Tax Law
Alessandro A. Apolito
- Litigation – Trusts and Estates
Kathleen H. Cold
- Corporate Law
- Tax Law
- Trusts and Estates
Musa K. Farmand
- Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
- Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
Thomas R. Ray
- Construction Law
- Litigation – Construction
Bethany Ray Reichard
- Commercial Litigation
Robert G. Riegel, Jr.
- Employment Law – Management
- Labor Law – Management
- Litigation – Labor and Employment

Rochester, N.Y.

Amy L. Reichhart
- Environmental Law

Washington, D.C.

Klint A. Cowan
- Native American Law
Brendan P. Kelleher
- Employment Law – Management
- Labor Law – Management
Michael G. Rossetti
- Native American Law

Attorneys recognized on The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch list and the practice area(s) they were selected in include:

Albany, N.Y.

Gregory T. Myers
- Litigation – Labor and Employment

Buffalo, N.Y.

Sean P. Balkin
- Corporate Governance and Compliance Law
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Mary M. Balkin Cannata
- Corporate Law
Zachary J. Dewey
- Real Estate Law
Courtney Donahue Tasner
- Trusts and Estates
Ashley M. Emery
- Labor and Employment Law – Employee
Donell L. Gibson, Jr.
- Corporate Governance and Compliance Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Thomas B. Hughes
- Corporate Governance and Compliance Law
- Corporate Law
Sean M. O’Brien
- Commercial Litigation
·Andrew J. Olek
- Corporate Law
Jessica M. Peraza
- Elder Law
- Litigation – Trusts and Estates
- Trusts and Estates
·Mitchell J. Ream
- Banking and Finance Law
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Joseph W. Schafer
- Corporate Governance and Compliance Law
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Tessa R. Scott
- Banking and Finance Law
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation – Banking and Finance
Eliza P. Shea
- Corporate Governance and Compliance Law
- Corporate Law
Carmen A. Vacco
- Commercial Litigation
- Criminal Defense: White-Collar
Caroline R. Vilardo
Corporate Governance and Compliance Law

Jacksonville, Fla.

Mark D. Canfield
- Litigation – Real Estate
Michael J. Lufkin
- Education Law
- Labor and Employment Law – Management
- Litigation – Labor and Employment

Rochester, N.Y.

Matthew V. Paris
- Insurance Law

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