(Sept. 29, 2026) — Harris Beach Murtha is pleased to announce 41 of its attorneys have been named to the 2026 Upstate New York Super Lawyers® and Super Lawyers: Rising Stars® lists. Attorneys were selected by their peers based on professional achievements.
Super Lawyers is a nationally recognized professional survey and ranking service of accomplished attorneys who have achieved a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement in more than 70 practice areas. Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers in the state are selected to Super Lawyers and 2.5 percent to Rising Stars.
Fourteen of the recognized attorneys were named to the Rising Stars list, which recognizes attorneys who are either 40 years old or younger or in practice for 10 years or less.
We congratulate all our attorneys who were recognized as 2026 Upstate New York Super Lawyers and Super Lawyers: Rising Stars:
Albany:
- Javid Afzali – Business Litigation
- Mathew P. Barry – Banking
- Zana M. Beck – Rising Star: Business/Corporate
- Leonard J. D’Arrigo – Immigration: Business
- Meaghan T. Feenan – Rising Star: Business Litigation
- Myles B. Fischer – Estate & Probate
- William M. Flynn – Energy & Resources
- John T. McManus – Energy & Resources
- Aubrey A. Roman – Rising Star: Energy & Resources
- Brendan J. Venter – Rising Star: Immigration: Business
Buffalo:
- Terrance P. Flynn – Business Litigation
- Melanie C. Marotto – Real Estate
- Patricia A. Rauh – Rising Star: Estate & Probate
- Judy N. Cuzzacrea Wagner – Estate & Probate
Pittsford:
- H. Todd Bullard – Business Litigation
- David M. Clar – Business/Corporate
- Christopher A. DiPasquale – Personal Injury – Medical Malpractice: Defense
- Brendan H. Ewing – Rising Star: Estate & Probate
- Alexander J. Fantauzzo – Rising Star: Employment & Labor
- Roy R. Galewski – Employment & Labor
- Francis L. Gorman III – Real Estate
- Taylor Ventre Mahoney – Rising Star: Employment & Labor
- Stephen J. Maier – Rising Star: Administrative Law
- Patrick M. Malgieri – Banking
- Michael J. Masino – Civil Litigation: Defense
- Sean M. McCabe – Rising Star: Real Estate
- Daniel J. Moore – Employment & Labor
- Steven P. Nonkes – Intellectual Property Litigation
- Heather CM Rogers – Real Estate
- Charles (Chip) W. Russell – Real Estate
- Neal L. Slifkin – Intellectual Property Litigation
- Laura W. Smalley – Intellectual Property Litigation
- Kristin Warner – Rising Star: Schools & Education
- Alan M. Winchester – Technology Transactions
Syracuse:
- David M. Capriotti – Business Litigation
- Julia C. Evans – Rising Star: Cannabis Law
- Esther S. Gabriel – Rising Star: Creditor Debtor Rights
- William H. Hython – Rising Star: Business Litigation
- Julian B. Modesti – Business Litigation
- James R. Muldoon – Intellectual Property Litigation
- Brendan M. Palfreyman – Intellectual Property
Super Lawyers will announce attorneys selected to its Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York Metro lists in October.
About Harris Beach Murtha
Harris Beach Murtha formed in 2025 via the combination of Harris Beach PLLC and Murtha Cullina LLP. A forward-thinking and innovative partnership with the benefit of more than 250 years of combined history, Harris Beach Murtha’s New York roots reach back to 1856, and the firm has had ties to New England since 1936. Harris Beach and Murtha Cullina were separately among the country’s top law firms as ranked by The National Law Journal.
Harris Beach Murtha and its subsidiaries have a strong Northeast presence, with a global reach, and represent clients locally, regionally and nationally. Clients include Fortune 100 corporations, privately held companies, emerging businesses, public sector entities, tax-exempt organizations and individuals. The firm’s practice areas and industries served span appellate, artificial intelligence, business litigation, cannabis, commercial real estate, construction, corporate, environmental, energy, financial institutions, financial restructuring, government compliance and investigations, health care, immigration, intellectual property, labor and employment, mass torts, medical and life sciences, political law, product liability, public finance, tax and trusts and estates.
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The firm’s lawyers and consultants practice from offices throughout Connecticut in Bantam, Hartford, New Haven and Stamford; New York state in Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo, Ithaca, Niagara Falls, New York City, Rochester, Saratoga Springs, Syracuse, Long Island and White Plains, as well as in Boston, Massachusetts, Providence, Rhode Island and Newark, New Jersey. For more information, visit www.harrisbeachmurtha.com.
