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Harris Beach PLLC has recently won judgments totaling more than $39 million for clients in separate patent infringement cases. In August, Harris Beach attorneys won a $12 million judgment in U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York ...

One of the best recruiting tools for Western New York law firms might be spending a few years at a big city firm. Rochester and Buffalo law firms rarely compete with the largest big city firms for top-tier students. But ...

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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy because of numerous pending and anticipated lawsuits accusing clergy of sex abuse. According to documents filed Thursday, the Diocese has $50 million to $100 million in assets, but ...

The law firms of Adams Bell Adams PC and Leclair Korona Cole LLP have merged. The new firm will focus on civil and construction litigation as Adams Leclair LLP. Steven Cole is the managing partner for Adams Leclair. The combined ...

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Jacqueline Phipps Polito, the new office managing shareholder in the Perinton location of Littler Mendelson P.C., is proud to be part of a small group of women in the top management roles at local law offices. “It’s exciting. After practicing ...

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Monroe County Health Commissioner Dr. Michael Mendoza visited the Monroe County Bar Association Friday to train a group of people to use Narcan to save a person suffering an opioid overdose. In the past 18 months or so, Mendoza has ...

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It’s been three years since Kevin Ryan took over as executive director of the Monroe County Bar Association, but he didn’t need nearly that much time to feel at home. “It’s really a welcoming community,” said Ryan, who was hired ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has revived a lawsuit against Rochester Institute of Technology that had been dismissed a year earlier by U.S. District Court Judge Charles J. Siragusa. In August 2018, Siragusa dismissed the copyright ...

Former state Supreme Court justice and statewide Republican leader Richard M. Rosenbaum died Sunday. He was 88. “Today we lost a giant and a great friend to so many,” Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo said in a news release. “A ...

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Only about a third of Americans have end-of-life plans for their assets and health-care decisions. Unfortunately, even when plans are made they often include costly mistakes, said Lisa Powers, senior counsel and elder law attorney at Harris Beach PLLC. Powers ...

Contaminated properties that were off-limits to developers are now seen as viable community projects, thanks to New York’s Brownfield Cleanup Program. Developers who clean up and reuse property with environmental contamination — better known as brownfields — not only qualify ...

The state’s highest court has ruled that Wegmans Food Markets Inc. is not entitled to a refund for taxes paid on a service that the company claimed was exempt. Since 1995, Wegmans has hired RetailData LLC to monitor competitors’ prices. ...

As part of Tully Rinckey PLLC’s plan to change its business model and expand globally, the firm has named current partner Michael W. Macomber its new chief executive officer, effective Jan. 1. Macomber is based at the firm’s Albany office. ...

Considering all the other responsibilities they have to juggle, an unexpected lawsuit probably isn’t something that most business owners spend a lot of time planning for, but it should be. The United States has one of the most expensive legal ...

Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley on Wednesday released the details of a new Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU), including the nine members of the new unit: Coordinator, Special Assistant District Attorney Dan Gross; Assistant District Attorney Michelle Crowley, director of ...