Barclay Damon grows Boston office with 10 new attorneys

Syracuse–based Barclay Damon LLP recently announced it has added 10 attorneys from another law firm to its office in Boston, Massachusetts, boosting its presence in that big market. The firm says they started their work with Barclay Damon on Oct. 7. All of the lawyers involved have been working for Burns & Levinson, LLP (B&L), also of Boston, per the Barclay Damon announcement. The group consists of a six-attorney intellectual property (IP) team and four lawyers focused on real estate, finance, corporate and labor and employment. The IP group is led by former B&L IP chair Deb Peckham and includes partners Kate Noll and Alex Smolenski, of counsel Jerry Cohen, and associates Dan McGrath and Kat Delos Reyes, along with several support staff. The additional four lawyers include B&L’s former managing partner, Paul Mastrocola, and partners Leslie Muldowney, Andy Henderson, and Tina Murray. “Our team could not be more excited to join a firm whose growing platform and successes have been so inspiring to watch in Boston and beyond,” Peckham said. “Barclay Damon’s continued focus on increasing their already-formidable IP team made the choice to join the firm the obvious path to follow. And our clients will benefit from the full range of legal services from outstanding providers with commitments to client service that equal ours.” The deal will bring Barclay Damon’s Boston office headcount to 23 lawyers. The firm notes that its major-markets offices’ headcount has also grown from eight lawyers just five years ago to just under 90 attorneys today in New York City; Boston; New Haven, Connecticut; and Washington D.C.

“We continue building momentum in each of our markets with a proven reputation for finding talent, striking deals that are fair to lateral partners and the firm, and successfully integrating and retaining talent at a rate that far surpasses industry statistics,” Lizz Acee, management committee member and managing director of major markets at Barclay Damon, contended in the firm’s announcement. The Burns & Levinson addition 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. “Our group was strong before 2024, and our growth this year has added to the broad range of hard-science disciplines that we can offer and has improved the depth and strength of our overall IP bench,” Denis Sullivan, who leads Barclay Damon’s intellectual property practice group, said in the firm’s announcement. The firm’s expanded IP group now includes 32 lawyers, one patent agent, and eight paralegals and docket administrators supporting a practice that conducts work throughout the U.S. and abroad. The work focuses on areas such as patent and trademark litigation and prosecution, which includes contested patent and trademark office proceedings; commercial licensing and transactional due diligence; and copyright litigation and procurement, Barclay Damon said.