Marybeth P. Mantharam

Colucci & Gallaher P.C. has extensive nationwide experience successfully defending product manufacturers, designers, distributors, sellers, and owners against claims involving product design, manufacture, warnings, warranties, and fraud.

Based in Buffalo, the firm’s product liability defense attorneys frequently handle matters in jurisdictions across western New York and throughout the United States, delivering aggressive and effective defense-focused legal representation.

The firm’s approach typically begins immediately after an accident or incident occurs, with attorneys traveling to inspect the product and scene to collect critical information that may prove essential later in the case. This early and continuous engagement with clients, combined with a meticulous pursuit of every relevant fact and legal argument, maximizes the potential for a favorable resolution.

Colucci & Gallaher’s experienced lawyers have served as national counsel for numerous companies across the country, including the world’s largest aerial work platform manufacturer and a leading producer of specialty trucks. They have tried numerous cases in both state and federal courts nationwide and have contributed to the development of new legal precedent in product liability law in New York and beyond.

Colucci & Gallaher lawyers have distinguished themselves as effective advisors and advocates for privately owned and publicly traded businesses, as well as municipal entities, in the Northeast United States, Upper Midwest and nationwide.

C&G currently counsels some of the world’s largest — and upstate New York’s smallest — businesses. This diverse clientele includes oil companies, one of upstate New York’s largest commercial real estate brokers, downtown Buffalo’s largest commercial landlord, one of the area’s fastest growing development companies, the world’s largest manufacturer of aerial work platforms, the nation’s leader in designing specialty trucks, and the largest hospital and nursing home in Western New York.

The firm’s varied menu of skilled business legal services benefits clients locally, regionally and nationally in practice areas that include prosecution and defense of personal injury claims, business litigation and counseling, corporate law and contracts, insurance defense representation for construction litigation, municipal liability, toxic torts and environmental issues, product liability claims, health care law, real estate transactions, and personal legal services such as wills and estates, mental hygiene and business formation.