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Joseph J. Gumkowski practices in the areas of general business law, e-commerce, taxation, and intellectual property. His practice is concentrated in servicing select clients of the firm in the entertainment business.. Mr. Gumkowski is an active member of the Sports Car Club of America; the Sports Car Club of America, Western New York Region; the South Towns Motor Club; and the Central New York Ice Racing Association. Mr. Gumkowski earned second place in the 2002 New York State Road Racing Championship.

Nathan McMurray practices in HoganWillig’s Corporate and Business Law department. He brings with him extensive experience, previously working for Delaware North Companies, generating hundreds of millions in revenue through business development initiatives in the travel and entertainment venue industry. Mr. McMurray counsels clients with matters related to business contracts, new business proposals, entity formation, joint-venture agreements, franchise agreements, license agreements, supply agreements, lease agreements, dispute resolution, and merger and acquisition agreements.. Mr. McMurray received his Juris Doctorate from the University of California Hastings College of Law, and a Master of Laws in (LLM) Chinese Law from the Tsinghua Law School in Beijing.. Mr. McMurray also served as Grand Island Town Supervisor from January of 2015 to December of 2019, his accomplishments included achieving record budget surpluses and the town’s highest-ever credit rating. During his supervisory role, Grand Island secured multi-million-dollar infrastructure projects, including community solar projects, rehabilitation of abandoned sites, broadband infrastructure, and trail access initiatives. These projects were achieved through aggressive bidding strategies resulting in obtaining millions in State and Federal grants while attracting major development projects, including an Amazon logistics hub.. Mr. McMurray also has deep experience working internationally as Foreign Legal Counsel working for Barun Law, Yulchon Attorneys in Seoul, Korea, and for Allen & Overy, LLP in Beijing, China. He was also Senior Counsel for Samsung Electronics in Seoul, Korea. His experience overseas includes advising U.S. businesses on investment projects and cross-border disputes in Asia, as well as advising U.S. companies on market strategy, acquisitions, and other matters. He speaks Korean and Mandarin.

Sarah J. Delaney is a long-time member of Goldberg Segalla's Global Insurance Services team. Her practice concentration is on insurance coverage analysis and litigation, professional liability, and appellate practice. Sarah's coverage experience covers a very broad range, including life, health and disability; bad faith; personal and advertising injury; intentional torts; pollution claims; aviation and fraud. She handles all aspects of insurance litigation and provides complex coverage analysis. Sarah also assists large domestic and multi-national companies in assessing insurance needs and implementing risk management programs.. Sarah graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude from the State University of New York at Buffalo and was a governmental law center fellow and publications editor of the Human Rights Law Review while in law school. She has lectured and presented on a number of topics relating to insurance coverage, including social media, insurance coverage for the trucking industry, insurance coverage for construction operations, and comparative analysis of insurance coverage issues in the Northeast states. Sarah is editor of CaseWatch: Insurance, Goldberg Segalla's monthly insurance coverage newsletter, as well as publisher of the firm's Life, Health, Disability, and ERISA Quarterly newsletter and a regular contributor to the firm's Legal Update. She is also an editor of the DRI Life, Health, Disability, and ERISA Committee compendium The Law of Life Insurance: Key Issues in All 50 States, and the co-author of "Mergers and Acquisitions Insurance," New Appleman on Insurance Law, Library Edition (2011).

Michael T. Glascott, a partner in the Global Insurance Services Practice Group and leader of the GIS New York team, focuses his practice on complex insurance coverage, bad faith, commercial litigation, tort, and New York Labor Law litigation. Mike counsels and represents insurers in courts throughout New York and other northeastern states.. Mike gained extensive trial experience as an assistant district attorney for the County of Erie, where he prosecuted to verdict a variety of criminal matters, including homicides. He has also successfully defended personal injury claims and represented clients in commercial litigation matters during his time with private firms in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Buffalo, New York.. Since 2003, Mike has been a member of the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel (FDCC), a membership which is granted by invitation only following an extensive peer-review selection process. The FDCC is an international organization that was founded in 1936, and is limited to 1,200 of the top defense attorneys in the country. Mike's high-profile participation in the organization — founded on the principles of knowledge, justice, and fellowship — includes his current appointment as secretary-treasurer, and previous leadership positions as senior director, director, chair of the Membership Development and Retention Committee, chair of the Insurance Coverage Section, chair of the Insurance Industry Committee, and member of the Admissions Committee. He also currently serves as chair of the Finance and Budget Committee, and will serve as the organization's president-elect from 2019 to 2020 and then as president from 2020 to 2021. In 2016, Mike received the Joseph R. Olshan Award in recognition of his outstanding dedication to the organization following his leadership within the FDCC Advance Committee. He also received the FDCC Connect Award in 2017 and the John Alan Appleman Award in 2012 for his service as chair of the FDCC's Insurance Coverage Section.. Highly regarded among his colleagues, Mike possesses an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell — the highest available rating — and has been regularly selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America in the category of Insurance Law as well as Business First's Who's Who in the Law for Insurance Coverage. He is also a Fellow in the American College of Coverage and Extracontractual Counsel.

James W. Grable, Jr. focuses his practice on complex federal criminal and civil litigation, handling trial and appellate matters in federal and state courts. He has represented multi-national corporations in criminal investigations and civil disputes, and impoverished defendants in assigned criminal and civil matters.

Marreana LaMorticella is an attorney who focuses her practice in HoganWillig’s Corporate and Business Law, Estates, Estates Planning & Elder Law and Real Estate Law departments.. Ms. LaMorticella graduated from Niagara University and Syracuse University College of Law. While receiving her J.D. at Syracuse University College of Law, Ms. LaMorticella was part of the Intellectual Property Law Society, Entertainment & Sports Law Society, and Corporate Law Society.. Prior to joining HoganWillig as an attorney, Ms. LaMorticella worked as a Law Clerk for Rich Products Corporation. Amongst many accomplishments, Ms. LaMorticella was a Student Attorney for Wohl Family Veterans Legal Clinic and a Legal Intern for Honorable Ralph A. Boniello III; and the Niagara Falls Office of Public Defender. Ms. LaMorticella received the CALI Excellence for the Future Award for her work with the Wohl Family Veterans Legal Clinic.

Nicholas A. Taylor is an Attorney in HoganWillig’s Corporate and Business Department, handling contract formation and enforcement, corporate matters regarding formation, restructuring, and dissolution, and issues regarding commercial leasing of property.. Prior to joining HoganWillig, Mr. Taylor practiced insurance defense litigation, representing insurance carriers, employers, and third party administrators in workers’ compensation proceedings throughout Western New York.. Mr. Taylor graduated from Penn State Law at Pennsylvania State University and is an inducted member of the Woolsack Honor Society, which recognizes academic excellence. He is admitted to practice law in New York and is a member of the New York State and Erie County Bar Association.

Pia Perfetto is an Associate Attorney primarily focusing her practice in HoganWillig’s Corporate and Business Department, handling contract formation and enforcement, corporate matters regarding formation, restructuring, dissolution, and issues relating to commercial leasing of property. Ms. Perfetto also assists HoganWillig’s Estate Planning and Administration Practice Group.. Prior to joining HoganWillig as an attorney, Ms. Perfetto was a law clerk in the firm’s Litigation Department.. Ms. Perfetto graduated magna cum laude from Canisius College in 2016 with a major in Communication Studies and a minor in Political Science. She received her legal education from the University at Buffalo School of Law and graduated with a J.D. in 2019. As a law student, Ms. Perfetto was the Vice Justice of the Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, International, and the Secretary of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Society. During this time, Ms. Perfetto helped coordinate the law school’s annual Representation in Mediation Competition of the American Bar Association.. While in law school, Ms. Perfetto was a legal intern in the Kinship Care Legal Services Program with the Center for Elder Law and Justice, assisting with guardianship, custody, and other family law related matters. She also worked for the Bar Association of Erie County prior to attending law school.

Currently, Mr. Neurohr is an Associate Attorney working at HoganWillig Attorneys at Law in their Real Estate and Corporate & Business departments, handling residential and commercial real estate transactions; partition actions and boundary disputes; contract formation and enforcement; corporate matters regarding formation, restructuring and dissolution; and mortgage foreclosure actions.. Mr. Neurohr received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a minor in Marketing from Nova Southeastern University in 2011. He went on to obtain his Juris Doctor from State University of New York at Buffalo Law School, cum laude, in 2014.. Prior to joining HoganWillig, Mr. Neurohr practiced insurance defense litigation, handling motor vehicle accidents, residential and commercial premises liability, and toxic tort defense throughout Western New York.