Best's Recommended Insurance Attorneys
General Defense
450 New Karner Road, Albany, New York 12205
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 15072, Albany, NY 12212
Established: 2009
Practice Areas
- Business and Real Estate Transactions
- Business Litigation
- Civil Defense
- Commercial Litigation
- Construction Litigation
- Daycare Liability
- Employment Discrimination
- Employment Law (Management Side)
- Estate Litigation
- Garage Liability
- General Defense Civil Litigation
- Governmental Defense
- Governmental Liability
- Indian Law
- Labor and Employment
- Municipal Liability
- Nursing Home Liability
- Nursing Home Litigation
- Police Liability Litigation
- Premises Liability
- Public Liability
- Public Officials Defense
- School Law
- Self-Insured Defense
- Slip and Fall
- Tribal Law
- Trust and Estate Litigation
- Policy Liability Defense
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About Us
Towne, Ryan & Partners, P.C. is the largest New York State-certified Women-owned Business Enterprise ("WBE") law firm in Upstate New York, providing defense to insurance carriers and self-insured clients. The Firm has argued cases in state, federal, trial and appellate courts on behalf of private and public organizations and their insurance carriers.
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Insurance Clients
Non-Insurance Clients
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Personnel Information
Principals
Claudia A. Ryan
Albany, NY
Admitted
- New York, 1980
- U.S. District Court, Eastern, Northern and Southern Districts of New York
Memberships:
- American, New York State, Albany and Saratoga County Bar Associations
- New York Women's Bar Association
- National Association of Dealer Counsel
- Defense Research Institute
Education:
- LeMoyne University, B.A. (cum laude), 1976
- Albany Law School of Union University, J.D., 1979
James T. Towne, Jr.
Albany, NY
Admitted
- New York, 1976
- Vermont, 1983
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York, 1976
- U.S. District Court, District of Vermont, 1983
- U.S. District Court, Eastern, Southern and Western Districts of New York, 1997
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1998
Additional Biographical Details:
Designated Arbitrator and Mediator and Early Neutral Evaluator, Dispute Resolution Program, U.S. District Court of the Northern District of New York
Memberships:
- American (Section of Trial Counsel, Corporate, Banking and Business Law), New York State and Vermont Bar Associations
- Albany County, Saratoga County, Warren County and Rensselaer County Bar Associations
- Federal Bar Council and Foundation
- American Arbitration Association (1981-2000; Panel of Arbitrators, Commercial and Construction Panels)
- National Association of Dealer Counsel
- New York State Trial Lawyers Association
- Association of Trial Lawyers of America
Education:
- University of Vermont, B.A., 1971
- Albany Law School of Union University, J.D., 1975
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Associate Attorneys
- Joseph A. Coticchio
- Caitlin A. Goetz
- John A. Musacchio
- Christopher W. Rust
- Christine E. Taylor
- Samantha Vedder
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Of Counsel
- Robert H. Cohen
- Robert H. Coughlin
- Michael J. Hannah
- Michael Rhodes-Devey
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Service Areas
Cobleskill, New York, USA 46 miles
Saratoga Springs, New York, USA 32 miles
Bennington, Vermont, USA 38 miles
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