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October 3, 2025

36 Harris Beach Murtha Attorneys Selected to 2025 Upstate New York Super Lawyers® and Super Lawyers: Rising Stars® Lists

Harris Beach Murtha is pleased to announce that 36 of its attorneys have been named to the 2025 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.

Eleven 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 2025 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 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:

  • Allison B. Fiut – Civil Litigation: Defense
  • Terrance P. Flynn – Business Litigation

Pittsford:

  • David M. Clar – Business/Corporate
  • Christopher A. DiPasquale – Personal Injury – Medical Malpractice: Defense
  • Brendan H. Ewing – Rising Star: Estate & Probate
  • Roy R. Galewski – Employment & Labor
  • Francis L. Gorman – Real Estate
  • 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 C.M. 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
  • Joseph V. Frateschi – Rising Star: State/Local/Municipal
  • Esther S. Gabriel – Rising Star: Bankruptcy: Business
  • Julian B. Modesti – Business Litigation
  • James R. Muldoon – Intellectual Property Litigation
  • Brendan M. Palfreyman – Intellectual Property
  • Brian D. Roy – Rising Star: Bankruptcy: Business

 Super Lawyers will announce attorneys selected to its Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York Metro lists in October.