Barclay Damon Welcomes 10 Attorneys From Burns & Levinson, Including the Third IP Group This Year

October 2, 2024

Source: Barclay Damon

Barclay Damon announces the addition of 10 lawyers from Burns & Levinson, effective October 7. The group consists of a six-lawyer intellectual property team led by former B&L IP chair Deb Peckham that includes partners Kate Noll and Alex Smolenski, of counsel Jerry Cohen, and associates Dan McGrath and Kat Delos Reyes, along with several support staff. It also includes four lawyers focused on real estate, finance, corporate, and labor and employment, including B&L’s former managing partner, Paul Mastrocola, and partners Leslie Muldowney, Andy Henderson, and Tina Murray.

The deal will bring Barclay Damon’s Boston office headcount to just under 25 lawyers and its major markets offices headcount from eight lawyers five years ago to just under 90 lawyers today resident in New York City, Boston, New Haven, and Washington DC. The addition also marks the third major IP group to join Barclay Damon in 2024, underscoring the firm’s continued strategic investment in its IP practice and expansion of services to tech-based clients.

Read the press release about this exciting development here to learn more.

For over two decades, Barclay Damon has been successfully pursuing a disciplined expansion strategy throughout its platform of offices in major and smaller markets. The firm’s five-year deal history includes a combination with the 10-attorney business, construction, power and energy, real estate, and commercial litigation firm Shapiro, Lifschitz & Schram; the addition of 20 lawyers from LeClairRyan; the addition of seven wealth management planning and elder law attorneys from Lacy Katzen LLP; a combination with the 14-attorney bankruptcy firm Menter, Rudin & Trivelpiece, PC; and the addition of the 11-attorney energy-environmental firm Gilberti Stinziano Heintz & Smith, PC.

We are thrilled to have this talented team from B&L join our strategically growing firm.