HARTER SECREST & EMERY - Key Persons


Alexa K. Thomas

Job Titles:
  • Law Clerk

Alexander C. Kaczmarek

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Alexander R. McClean

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Partner / Rochester and New
  • PARTNER in CHARGE - NEW YORK

Alicia R. Stoklosa

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Allison E. Bartlett

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Amy J. Kellogg

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Named Government Affairs Practice Group Leader
  • PARTNER - in - CHARGE - ALBANY

Amy L. Hemenway

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Andrew J. Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Counsel

Anna S. M. McCarthy

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate
  • Appointed to Eighth Judicial District Attorney Grievance Committee

Anne F. Downey

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Annisa G. Chaudari

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Anthony T. Lee

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Chairman of the Monroe County Bar Association Trusts & Estates Section
Tony has served as Chair of the Monroe County Bar Association Trusts & Estates Section, and has been a frequent presenter at continuing legal education programs on estate planning and probate issues for the Monroe County and New York State bar associations.

Audrey Burns Leites

Job Titles:
  • Paralegal

Benjamin E. Mudrick

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Ben regularly provides training to executive and employee groups on non-harassment, wage and hour, and other labor and employment issues. He is a fully trained civil rights investigator and conducts on-campus sexual misconduct investigations.

Brenna M. Mason

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Brian B. Shaw

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Partner / Rochester
Brian Shaw's expertise is in matters relating to patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. He prepares and prosecutes patent applications, prepares patentability opinions, patent infringement opinions, and counsels on and prepares licensing and technology transfer agreements. Brian's experience includes:

Brian M. Feldman

Job Titles:
  • Partner

C. Christopher Murillo

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Caitlin A. Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Caitlin Forsyth Kireker

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate

Chloe J. Macdonald

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Christina M. Deats

Job Titles:
  • Counsel

Christopher M. Potash

Job Titles:
  • Executive
  • Partner
Christopher Potash is an executive compensation lawyer with broad-based experience in tax, corporate, securities, and other laws and regulations affecting executive compensation, and is the head of the Firm's executive compensation practice. He represents both public and private companies, both US and international, from closely held businesses, to private equity funds to Fortune 100 companies. His experience includes: Advising US clients with respect to the design, drafting, implementation and operation of equity compensation arrangements, including stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, restricted stock units, performance awards, employee stock purchase plans, phantom awards, and profits interests. Advising UK and other international companies on the US aspects of their global equity compensation arrangements, including the US tax, federal and state securities laws, exchange rules, data privacy and other matters. Advising clients with respect to the design, implementation and operation of nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements, including deferred cash arrangements, elective deferral arrangements, supplemental retirement plans, rabbi and secular trust arrangements, and other nonqualified arrangements. Christopher has extensive experience with all aspects of Section 409A of the Tax Code, as well as the correction procedures under such section. He also has experience with the application of Section 409A to non-US arrangements and the strategies for addressing the potential Section 409A issues presented. Representing domestic and international clients with respect to the US executive compensation aspects of merger and acquisition transactions, including executive compensation due diligence, representation and warranties, covenants, Section 280G golden parachute payment provisions and employee matters, as well as assistance with post-closing integration of executive compensation arrangements. Design, implementation, and operation of director compensation arrangements. Design of change-in-control agreements, severance agreements, parachute payments and golden handcuffs. Advising US public companies regarding SEC disclosure of director and executive compensation and employee benefit arrangements in their annual proxy statements, including say-on-pay and CEO pay ratio disclosure under Dodd Frank. Advising US public companies regarding corporate governance matters and best practices.

Claire A. L. Fallone

Job Titles:
  • Counsel
  • Counsel / Rochester

Connor T. Godfrey

Job Titles:
  • Associate / Buffalo

Craig S. Wittlin - CEO

Job Titles:
  • MANAGING PARTNER
  • Managing Partner / Rochester and Buffalo

Daniel R. Kinel

Job Titles:
  • Retired Partner / Rochester and New

Daniel W. Collins

Job Titles:
  • Partner / Rochester

Diana R. Clarkson

Job Titles:
  • Partner / Rochester

Edward (Ted) H. Townsend

Job Titles:
  • Partner / Rochester

Edward J. Pelta

Job Titles:
  • Counsel / Rochester

Edward M. Stone

Job Titles:
  • Partner / Buffalo

Emily R. Shannon

Job Titles:
  • Paralegal / Rochester

Gregory J. Coughlin

Job Titles:
  • Lead Corporate Practice Group
  • Partner / Rochester

HERO Act

Job Titles:
  • Commissioner of Health Extends Designation of COVID - 19 As Airborne Infectious Disease and New York Updates Model Plan
The Clock is Ticking: New York HERO Act, Harter Secrest & Emery LLP

Jeffrey A. Wadsworth

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Committee
  • PARTNER

Jodi A. Reynolds

Job Titles:
  • Counsel / Rochester

John G. Horn

Job Titles:
  • PARTNER - in - CHARGE - BUFFALO

Jonathan R. Jasinski

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate / Buffalo

Joseph G. Casion

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Committee
  • PARTNER
  • Chosen to Receive Attorney of the Year Award from the Daily Record
  • Partner / Rochester

Kayla E. Klos

Job Titles:
  • Partner / Buffalo

Kelly A. Pronti

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Committee
  • PARTNER

Kristian D. Walker

Job Titles:
  • Associate / Rochester

Lisa Steffen - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer

Lucille Dadd

Job Titles:
  • Chief Legal Talent and Development Officer

Mary Ellen O'Dell Schantz

Job Titles:
  • Paralegal / Rochester

Matthew A. Eldred

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate / Rochester

Megan K. Dorritie

Job Titles:
  • CO - PARTNER - in - CHARGE - CORNING

Meghan Frederick

Job Titles:
  • Attorney Recruiting
  • Legal Recruiter

Michael Roche

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate / Rochester

Nicholas S. Gatto

Job Titles:
  • Senior Counsel / Buffalo

Nicole Kershaw

Job Titles:
  • Chief Business Development Officer

Nicole O'Brien - CIO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Information Officer

Philip R. Fileri

Job Titles:
  • Senior Counsel / Rochester

Phillip A. Delmont

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Committee
  • PARTNER
  • Partner / Buffalo

Ralph K. Merzbach

Job Titles:
  • Senior Counsel / Rochester

Rayza Santiago

Job Titles:
  • Counsel / Rochester

Rebecca E. Graf - CHRO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Human Resources
  • Paralegal Recruiting

Rhonda Noto

Job Titles:
  • Chief Human Resources and Administrative Officer

Sheldon K. Smith

Job Titles:
  • CO - PARTNER - in - CHARGE - CORNING

Steven Y. Solomon

Job Titles:
  • Partner / Rochester

Thomas R. Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Partner / Rochester

Vittoria L. Buzzelli

Job Titles:
  • Associate / Rochester and Albany

William A. Hoy, IV

Job Titles:
  • Partner - Private Equity / Rochester