The Glennon Law Firm, P.C.

Where the practice is centered

Litigation and dispute resolution sit at the core of this Rochester, New York practice. It represents professionals, executives, businesses, and business owners in disputes across New York State. The work is built around four areas: business litigation, employment law, trust and estate litigation, and matrimonial law. The firm also handles securities disputes and FINRA arbitration.

Reading the firm's own pages, one thing stands out. The Glennon Law Firm, P.C. describes itself by the kind of conflict it takes on, not by a long menu of unrelated services. The through line is litigation. Whether a matter starts as a contract, a partnership, a divorce, or a contested will, the firm frames it as a dispute to be resolved.

The business and commercial disputes side

Business work sits at the center of the practice. The firm lists breach of contract and business torts, entity disputes and dissolutions, and partnership, shareholder, and LLC member disputes. It also handles non-compete agreements and franchise litigation.

Two items here are worth calling out. The firm mentions litigation prevention assessments and contract review, which points to work that happens before a fight starts, not only after. That pairing tends to suit business owners who would rather stay out of court than end up in it.

Employment law runs alongside the business practice. The focus falls on executive and professional employment law, employment contracts, and, again, non-compete agreements. The overlap with the business side is clear. The same firm that argues a partnership dispute is set up to argue over an executive's contract or a restrictive covenant.

Family law and estate matters

The matrimonial practice covers divorce, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, and equitable distribution. The firm calls out high net-worth divorce as part of this work, which usually brings business valuation and asset questions into the room. Set against the firm's business litigation background, that combination reads as consistent rather than bolted on.

Trust and estate litigation rounds out the family-facing work. Here the firm points to will contests and Surrogate's Court proceedings. These are contested estate matters, not routine estate planning, which again fits the firm's litigation identity.

How the team is put together

The site names eight attorneys, and the titles say something about the structure. Peter J. Glennon and Kimberly A. Glennon are listed as Principal Litigation Attorneys, as are Lauren A. Valle and Sarah Sulkowski. Lisa K. Dochat is the Managing Attorney. Frank J. Fields, III is listed as Senior Counsel and Tracey B. Scarpello as Counsel. The team page also lists Craig D. Peterson as Senior Counsel, in memoriam.

In my opinion, that mix matters more than a headcount would. Four attorneys carrying a Principal Litigation title points to a firm where courtroom work is shared across several senior lawyers, not resting on one name. The Managing Attorney and Counsel roles fill in the layers a working litigation practice tends to need.

Background that shows in the credentials

The firm makes one claim about its lawyers that is specific enough to record. According to the firm, six of its attorneys served as federal or state law clerks at the trial and appellate level. Several also practiced at large international law firms before joining.

As a reviewer, I read clerkship experience as a signal about how a firm approaches a case. Lawyers who clerked have watched judges decide matters from the other side of the bench. That is a particular kind of training, and a firm that can point to six such backgrounds is describing a group with shared courtroom exposure rather than a single standout. The prior time at large firms suggests work on complex matters, though the pages do not name those firms, so the detail stops there.

Reach across New York State

The firm keeps offices in Rochester, Buffalo, Albany, and New York City, with Rochester as the main office. The spread runs from western New York through the capital region to Manhattan. That lines up with the firm's stated aim of handling disputes throughout the state.

For a client, the practical read is simple. A firm with those four locations can meet clients and appear in courts across much of New York without asking everyone to travel to one city. In my opinion, that footprint is one of the clearer facts on the firm's site, and it fits a practice that describes its reach as statewide.

How to read this listing

What can be confirmed from the firm's own pages is the shape of the practice. It is a Rochester-based litigation firm working in business, employment, family, and estate disputes, with a securities and FINRA arbitration service area, eight named attorneys, a stated clerkship background, and four New York offices. The firm does not publish a founding year on the pages reviewed, and individual attorney bios were not part of the material examined here.

For anyone weighing this firm, the file supports a plain summary. This is a dispute-focused practice with a defined set of areas, a team led by several principal litigators, and a presence in four New York cities. Those are facts a prospective client can check, and they are the ones this review rests on.