SYRACUSE — Centolella Green Law, P.C., a DeWitt–based law firm, has opened a second local office in the Hamilton White House at 307 S. Townsend St. in Syracuse. At the same time, the firm has added a fifth partner. Centolella Green believed it needed a “downtown presence,” says Jason Centolella, a partner in the firm […]
SYRACUSE — Centolella Green Law, P.C., a DeWitt–based law firm, has opened a second local office in the Hamilton White House at 307 S. Townsend St. in Syracuse.
At the same time, the firm has added a fifth partner.
Centolella Green believed it needed a “downtown presence,” says Jason Centolella, a partner in the firm
“We have a lot of medical clients that are at the hospitals, and it’s sometimes more convenient for them to come down here. We just figured it was a nice way to service our clients and also have a downtown presence,” says Centolella.
The firm opened the office Aug. 1. The space didn’t require any build-out.
The opportunity to secure the new office space happened earlier in the year, according to Centolella. William Gilberti, Jr., an attorney with the Syracuse–based law firm Gilberti Stinziano Heintz & Smith, P.C., owns the building, according to Centolella, who knows Gilberti and heard about the available space.
“We do work together,” Centolella notes.
Kathleen Centolella, his wife and a partner in the firm, handled the negotiations, says Jason Centolella, adding that the deal “moved pretty quickly.”
The firm opened the Syracuse office because the DeWitt location “simply is not big enough to house the entire practice,” citing employee and client growth.
Adding a partner
Centolella Green hired attorney Eric Bronstad, who joined the firm in September as a partner.
Bronstad and Jason Centolella have known each other since their first day at the Syracuse University College of Law in 2001. “By chance, we sat next to each other,” says Bronstad. Both Centolella and Bronstad spoke with CNYBJ at the Hamilton White House on Oct. 16.
Bronstad started his legal career with the Pyramid Companies and later joined Aspen Dental Management Inc. “Through the years, [Jason] and I have interacted. We’ve always talked about the potential to work together but our careers took different paths,” says Bronstad.
Their dialogue increased about the time that Centolella Green Law launched in early 2017.
Centolella Green has eight employees altogether including the five partners and three additional employees.
The firm is “actively” looking for at least one more attorney, says Jason Centolella.
“Adding Eric and adding a paralegal and expanding space is all a direct result of the growth of our client base,” says Centolella.
He declined to disclose the number of clients his firm services and declined to name any specific clients.
“The volume of work we have every year grows significantly,” says Centolella. “We have been able to grow on a regional basis.”
The firm’s revenue from health-care and business-client bases has been growing at a rate of 20 percent each year over the past three years, Kathleen Centolella said in a Sept. 29 news release.
About the firm
Centolella Green Law services clients that include smaller hospitals in a rural setting, along with medical groups, large and small; specialists to general practitioners; accountable-care organizations across the entire country; physician organizations, dialysis centers; and ambulatory-surgery centers.
“Those are really the core of our health-care practice,” says Jason Centolella.
Besides its main office in DeWitt and the Syracuse location, the firm also maintains a New York City office, which it opened when it started. Centolella describes it as “shared office space.”
“We did it because we are a regional practice and we are downstate at times,” he adds.
The firm has clients in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
Centolella Green Law launched in February. Prior to the new firm, Centolella had been a partner in Centolella Lynn D’Elia & Temes LLC, but the firm’s partners decided to go their separate ways in 2016. “It was an amicable separation,” he says.