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Harris Beach Murtha formed in 2025 via the combination of Harris Beach PLLC and Murtha Cullina LLP. A forward-thinking and innovative partnership with the benefit of more than 250 years of combined history, Harris Beach Murtha’s New York roots reach back to 1856, and the firm has had ties to New England since 1936. Harris Beach and Murtha Cullina were separately among the country’s top law firms as ranked by The National Law Journal.

Harris Beach Murtha and its subsidiaries have a strong Northeast presence, with a global reach, and represent clients locally, regionally and nationally. Clients include Fortune 100 corporations, privately held companies, emerging businesses, public sector entities, tax-exempt organizations and individuals. The firm’s practice areas and industries served span appellate law, business litigation, commercial real estate, construction, corporate, environmental, energy, financial institutions, financial restructuring, government compliance and investigations, health care, immigration, intellectual property, labor and employment, mass torts, medical and life sciences, political law, product liability, public finance, tax, and trusts and estates. 

Harris Beach Murtha is the exclusive member firm in Connecticut for Lex Mundi, the world’s leading network of independent firms with in-depth experience in more than 125 countries worldwide. As part of the Lex Mundi global network, Harris Beach Murtha can provide clients with preferred access to more than 22,000 lawyers around the world – all from a single point of contact. Lex Mundi allows Harris Beach Murtha to seamlessly handle clients’ most challenging cross-border transactions and disputes. 

The firm’s lawyers and consultants practice from offices throughout Connecticut in Bantam, Hartford, New Haven and Stamford; New York state in Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo, Ithaca, Niagara Falls, New York City, Rochester, Saratoga Springs, Syracuse, Long Island and White Plains, as well as in Boston, Massachusetts and Newark, New Jersey. For more information, visit www.harrisbeachmurtha.com.

Through six offices and 250 lawyers, Rivkin Radler consistently delivers focused and effective legal services. We’re committed to our best practices, requirements that go beyond professional and ethical standards. Our work product is clear and delivered on time. As a result, our clients proceed with confidence.

We provide strong representation and build even stronger client relationships. Many clients have been placing their trust in us for decades. Our unwavering commitment to total client satisfaction is the driving force behind our firm.

We are the advisor-of-choice to successful individuals, middle-market companies and large corporations. And for clients who prefer to speak their native language, we can communicate in French, French and Haitian Creole, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Korean, Panjabi, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog and Urdu.

Our firm provides representation in the following 23 practice areas: Appeals; Banking; Bankruptcy; Class Actions; Commercial Litigation; Complex Torts & Product Liability; Construction; Corporate; Directors & Officers Liability; Employment & Labor; General Liability; Health Services; Immigration; Insurance Coverage; Insurance Fraud; Intellectual Property; Medical Malpractice Defense; Privacy, Data & Cyber Law; Professional Liability; Real Estate; Surety; Trusts & Estates; and Tax.

The firm's experience and capabilities have been recognized by leading industry organizations:

• Chambers USA ranked our Insurance Coverage Practice Group in the Insurance: Dispute resolution: Insurer category
• Chambers USA ranked our Health Services Practice Group in the Healthcare category
• The Legal 500 listed our Insurance Coverage Practice Group in the “industry focus – insurance – advice to insurers” category

Rivkin Radler is committed to fostering diversity within an inclusive environment that respects the individual, promotes different perspectives, encourages distinctive ideas and drives dynamic results.

We employ individuals with varied backgrounds and life experiences who together create a firm with a rich and vibrant culture: one that enables us to attract and retain the best talent and allows us to bring a diversity of thinking to bear for the benefit of our clients. Our attorneys lead professional organizations, strengthen nonprofits that support the public good and pursue scholarly legal endeavors that advance our field.

With client service and convenience in mind, the firm offers six locations: Albany, N.Y.; Hackensack, N.J.; Jacksonville, FL; New York City, N.Y.; Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; and Uniondale, N.Y.