Hancock Estabrook adds Ithaca Law firm Barney, Grossman & Dubow

Barney, Grossman & Dubow traces its history back about 50 years, providing legal services that focus on commercial and residential transactions, small-business formation and management, trusts and estate planning, probate and estate administration, and municipal law.

Hancock Estabrook added attorney Peter G. Grossman as a partner in the municipal, real estate and trusts & estates practice area, and attorney Natalie S. French as an associate in the corporate, municipal, and real-estate practice areas, as well as a focus on adoption law. Legal assistant Deanna L. Laurentz also came aboard Hancock Estabrook, the firm said in a news release.

The addition of this team has expanded the services available to clients in the Ithaca and Finger Lakes region, the law firm said. “This expansion of our ranks reflects our continued focus on the Ithaca and Finger Lakes area and will allow the firm to increase its representation of clients in the corporate, health care, municipal, real estate and nonprofit sectors and individuals with estate planning needs. We are strongly committed to Upstate New York and continue to strategically grow our firm in a way that best allows us to serve our clients and our community,” Timothy P. Murphy, managing partner of Hancock Estabrook, said in the release.

Hancock Estabrook is based in Syracuse in Equitable Tower I. It also has two locations in Ithaca, its office in Gateway Center and a new location at 120 E. Buffalo St. that it picked up through the addition of Barney, Grossman & Dubow, according to its website.