RBJ presents the 2024 Power 50 Law List

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We are pleased to present The Daily Record and Rochester Business Journal’s Power List Law section. This section contains our Power 50 Law list as well as our Power Lists for Labor & Employment Law, Litigation, Tax Law, and Trusts and Estates.

This year, we decided not to include any judges or public officials on our Power 50 Law list. While our local judges and public officials play a crucial role in our community’s legal system, we wanted to focus instead on those people working at law firms, associations and civil legal services who are helping to shape the Rochester region’s legal industry.

The people on these lists help make sure the legal needs of Rochester’s companies and residents are met, and they have helped their own organizations and their clients navigate unprecedented changes in recent years. They are working to push the Rochester legal community forward during a time of uncertainty, and we are excited to see what they are able to accomplish going forward.

As with our previous Power Lists, this one is presented in alphabetical order. And again, rather than tell you about all of these power players’ accomplishments and accolades, we decided to give them a chance to tell you more about themselves through their answers to a few different questions.

I welcome any feedback you have at [email protected]. You can also make suggestions for people to appear on any of our future Power Lists at rbj.net/power-list-recommendation-form/.

Ben Jacobs
Associate Publisher and Editor

2024 Power 50 Law List

Lawrence Bice
Larimer Law

Kelly Ross Brown
Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP

T. Andrew Brown
Brown Hutchinson, LLP

Robert C. Brucato
Counsel Press Inc.

Jill Cicero
Cicero Law Firm

Kevin Clark
Clark Peshkin

Steven E. Cole
Adams Leclair LLP

Greg Connors
Connors & Ferris, LLP

Louis B. Cristo
Trevett Cristo P.C.

Patrick L. Cusato
Underberg & Kessler LLP

Joseph Salvatore Damelio
Law Office of Joseph S. Damelio

Joseph P. DeCoursey
Hamberger & Weiss LLP

Jillian Dunbar
Phillips Lytle LLP

Karl Essler
MCBA Bar Foundation

John A. Falk
Faraci Lange, LLP

Brett Farrow
Law Offices of Pullano & Farrow PLLC

Sareer Fazili
MCBA

Tina Monshipour Foster
JustCause

Alana M. Fuierer
Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

Heidi Schult Gregory
Harris Beach, PLLC

David K. Hou
Boylan Code LLP

Edward Hourihan
Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC

Chris Jagel
Harris Beach, PLLC

Peachie L. Jones
City of Rochester, RBBA

Wende Knapp
Procore Technologies, GRAWA

John Larimer
Larimer Law

Alan S. Lockwood
Boylan Code LLP

Jared Lusk
Nixon Peabody LLP

Peter C. Lutz
Hodgson Russ LLP

Kevin Mulvehill
Phillips Lytle LLP

Mitchell Nusbaum
Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP

Lori O’Brien
Legal Assistance of Western New York

Carla Palumbo
Legal Aid Society

Amber Peshkin
Clark Peshkin

Jacqueline Phipps Polito
Littler Mendelson

Kelly A. Pronti
Harter Secrest & Emery LLP

Patrick Pullano
Law Offices of Pullano & Farrow PLLC

Peter J. Pullano
Tully Rinckey PLLC

Alison Rich
Evans Fox LLP

Michael J. Ringrose
Gallo & Iacovangelo

Peter T. Rodgers
Lacy Katzen

Heather C.M. Rogers
Davidson Fink

Kevin Ryan
MCBA

Jennifer Schwartzott
Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC

Jeremy P. Sedelmeyer
Boylan Code LLP

Linda R. Shaw
Knauf Shaw LLP

Donald M. Thompson
Easton Thompson Kasperek Shiffrin LLP

Peter J. Weishaar
McConville Considine Cooman & Morin, P.C.

Mark Whitford
Barclay Damon LLP

Craig Wittlin
Harter Secrest & Emery LLP