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Connor earned his law degree (J.D.) from Syracuse University College of Law. While in law school, Connor worked in the Criminal Defense Clinic assisting people of Onondaga County in NY. While in law school, Connor was also an active member of the Journal of Science and Technology serving in both an Associate and Executive Editor role.. In 2020 Connor joined the Law Offices of Kenneth Hiller and assists clients and veterans in obtaining the compensation and benefits they deserve for their service.. Syracuse University College of Law, Juris DoctorHobart College, B.A. in Economics, Minor in Environmental Studies.. Admitted in:. New York State Bar. Veterans Administration. United States District Court for the Western District of New York. United States District Court for the Northern District of New York

Cécile is a native French speaker, who has benefited from a bilingual education between France and the United States. Cécile attended the University of Paris 10, where she studied both the French civil system and the American and British common law systems, with a concentration in International Law (including European Union Law, Public International Law, and Comparative Law). She then had the opportunity to attend Albany Law School as a foreign exchange student.. While at Albany Law School, Cécile clerked with the Environmental Protection Bureau at the New York Office of the Attorney General. Her prior experience also includes a clerkship in Intellectual Property Law at the Paris office of one of the world's top 10 law firms, an in-house counsel position focused on international commercial operations at the headquarters of a global pharmaceutical company in Paris, and an Associate Attorney position in real estate and other transactional matters at a boutique law firm in Albany, NY. More recently, Cécile practiced in HoganWillig's Corporate and Business Law department.. Cécile is a Director and former Treasurer of the Alliance Française de Buffalo (French Alliance of Buffalo), a not-for-profit organization that encourages the study of the French language and gathers its members around French cultural and social events.

Brooke Barron is an Associate Attorney in HoganWillig's Matrimonial & Family Law and Estate Planning & Administration Practice Groups.. Ms. Barron obtained her B.S. in Business Administration from SUNY Geneseo, and received her Juris Doctor in 2018 from American University- Washington College of Law.. While in law school, Ms. Barron was an Alternative Dispute Resolution Competition winner. Additionally, Ms. Barron was a law clerk for Commissioner Feldblum at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in Washington, D.C. and a student attorney for American University- Washington College of Law’s Civil Advocacy Clinic. Ms. Barron had also previously been employed at HoganWillig as a law clerk.

Brett Tokarczyk currently practices in multiple areas at HoganWillig, including personal injury, medical malpractice and litigation. Mr. Tokarczyk assists a wide range of clients across these matters and works extensively on appellate proceedings, one of his particular specialties.. Brett, admitted to practice in the State of Georgia in 2011 and State of New York in 2013, received his Juris Doctor from the University of Georgia Law School. He was an associate at Brick, Brick and Elmer, P.C. where he dealt primarily with family law and estate planning matters; upon joining HoganWillig, he brought his experience in family law to clients working the uncertainties of divorce.. Mr. Tokarczyk has enjoyed many accolades: he has been named a 2015 Super Lawyers Rising Star, and also received the 2012 Erie County Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Project Pro Bono Award in recognition and appreciation of his extensive pro bono work trying and appealing unemployment benefit claims. He is a Member of the Bar Association of Erie County as well as a Member of the New York State Bar Association. Mr. Tokarczyk's experience has afforded him a good deal of success across many different legal matters.

Amanda Scott currently focuses her practice in the areas of Elder Law, Disability Law, Estate Planning and Adoption Law.  She has assisted clients in the creation and execution of their Will, Trust, Living Will, Health Care Proxy and Power of Attorney documents.  She has also assisted clients with Medicaid planning, guardianship matters, and adoptions.  Since admission to the New York State Bar, Mrs. Scott has also handled numerous Matrimonial and Family Law cases in both the Family and Supreme Courts in Niagara and Erie counties, as well as various cases in the areas of Criminal and Traffic Law throughout the Western New York area.. Mrs. Scott has experience in all types of adoptions, including private domestic adoptions and agency assisted adoptions and finalizations. In addition, she routinely represents people in adult adoptions, second parent adoptions, step-parent adoptions, foster care adoptions and re-adoptions of international adoptions that were finalized outside of the United States.