SYRACUSE — Stanley Law Offices, LLP has merged with fellow Syracuse–based law firm of Fallon, Fallon & Bigsby, a firm that serviced clients in workers’-compensation matters. Stanley Law, headquartered at 215 Burnett Ave., focuses on personal injury law, workers’ compensation, and accident-related law. The deal became official in mid-July, says Joe Stanley, attorney and the […]
SYRACUSE — Stanley Law Offices, LLP has merged with fellow Syracuse–based law firm of Fallon, Fallon & Bigsby, a firm that serviced clients in workers’-compensation matters.
Stanley Law, headquartered at 215 Burnett Ave., focuses on personal injury law, workers’ compensation, and accident-related law.
The deal became official in mid-July, says Joe Stanley, attorney and the firm’s managing partner.
“They are now part of Stanley Law Offices,” he states in a CNYBJ interview on Oct. 17.
The Stanley Law Offices didn’t release any terms of the agreement, but Stanley says that the merger did not involve a financial transaction.
Attorneys Sheila Fallon, Megan Fallon, and Arthur Bigsby did not become partners in the Stanley Law Offices, Stanley adds.
The new Stanley Law Offices attorneys will continue using the office at 501 E. Washington St. in Syracuse that they operated from as Fallon, Fallon & Bigsby.
The Stanley Law office on Burnett Avenue doesn’t have the room to accommodate the additional attorneys and four support-staff members, according to Stanley.
“Long time” relationship
Sheila Fallon and Megan Fallon are sisters, while Arthur Bigsby is their brother-in-law, according to Stanley.
Their father, the late attorney William Fallon, and Joe Stanley’s father went to college together, says Stanley.
Stanley says he has known the Fallons “for a long time.”
That relationship would help to fill a need at the Stanley Law Offices.
Stanley Law had to replace a lawyer who was operating its workers’-compensation department, according to Stanley. The person left the firm earlier this year to become a federal administrative law judge.
“We had discussions about [Fallon, Fallon, and Bigsby] coming in and being the Stanley Law Offices workers’-compensation department, and after discussions, that’s what we did,” says Stanley.
He called the addition of the three lawyers a “perfect fit” to fill a need in servicing the firm’s workers’-compensation clients.
The firm’s “core business,” Stanley says, is personal-injury clients, many of whom are injured in work accidents.
“It’s a fabulous opportunity for the clients that are going to have very experienced, very well-respected workers’-compensation attorneys handling their files … It’s a tough business and you really need to have somebody who’s good at it,” he says.
In a company news release, Stanley described the workers’-compensation legal area as one that is “highly detailed and requires intensive focus and energy to execute well.”
Attorneys working in that practice area “pursue appropriate compensation for injured workers, such as lost wages and off-work benefits,” according to the firm.
Stanley Law Offices, LLP has five offices located in upstate New York and northern Pennsylvania, including Syracuse, Binghamton, Watertown, and Rochester, and Montrose, Pennsylvania. The law firm is a staple on local broadcast TV stations with its commercials featuring Joe Stanley.
Besides Stanley, attorney Robert Quattrocci is another partner in the firm. It employs 31 people, including 10 lawyers, according to Stanley.
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