NEW PARTNER, NEW FIRM NAME

A heavy-hitter appellate attorney and litigation consultant, Timothy Capowski, inspired a name change for Coffey Modica O”™Meara LLP.  The White Plains firm is now Coffey Modica O”™Meara Capowski LLP.

Capowski, who is known for defending insureds in catastrophic, high-exposure cases, joined the firm in January with partners Sofya Uvaydov and John “Jack” Watkins and four associates from their prior office.  Over the past two months, the group has continued its rapid growth, adding several more associates to support his team, including three laterals for the firm”™s brand-new Buffalo office: Annabelle Gao, Samuel Newman and Christopher Bitar.

“We are not your grandfather”™s appellate practice,” said Capowski. “We have carved out a unique niche practice that helps our clients fight and win the highest-exposure cases in the country. Rather than dropping into a case after an unfavorable result, like traditional reactive appellate groups, we provide strategic litigation and trial support, monitoring, consulting and drafting as needed from start to finish, from discovery onward.  

“We also seamlessly supplement the nation”™s finest trial litigation teams by providing reporting, drafting and analytical support, but we do so in a complementary manner, without interfering with the strategic goals and process of the trial team”¦”

Capowski”™ s 12-member group has more than two decades of experience representing international and national excess insurers and private clients in a wide variety of fields. 

A New York-based defense litigation firm with offices in Manhattan, White Plains, Buffalo, New Jersey and Connecticut, the firm represents defendants in high-profile, high-exposure matters across many disciplines and industries.