Attorneys in Amherst, NY
190 registered attorneys
Amherst mid-market register note
Rank #60 of 626NY cities by NY office-row count.
Among 190 non-deceased rows with an admission year, the span runs 1961-2026 (median 1998). Longest-tenured listed office peers: Stuart Allen Gellman (1961) , Thomas S. Pera (1961) , Stanley M. Lopat (1962) .
Amherst's register footprint
Amherst, NY concentrates in Currently registered (89% of 190 rows; status mix index 7,964).
Among school-named rows, Suny Buffalo Law School alone is 60% (school mix index 4,646).
Mix index is HHI×10,000 on OCA status shares and on school-named rows. Distinct from the statewide rank line above.
Amherst office-book shape
Amherst spreads named employers across 129 firms (mix index 109); Gibson, Mcaskill & Crosby, Llp leads at 6 of 163 named rows.
ZIP book runs 5 codes; 14226 holds 45% (86 rows).
Judicial dept 4 covers 87% of dept-tagged rows (165 of 4 departments present).
Largest admission decade is the 1990s at 21% of 190 dated rows - no single decade majority.
Derived from employer, ZIP, judicial-department, and admission-year fields on the same OCA extract - not a market-quality ranking.
Amherst registration renewal calendar
Next-registration months spread wide here - 12 distinct calendar months on file, no single month over 12% (Mar tops the list).
Renewal years span 2026–2028; 2027 leads at 44% (84 rows).
Among the same dated rows, median admission is 1998 (mean tenure ~27.5 years) - an older local book.
Next-registration month/year comes from the OCA extract (birthday-linked renewal window) - an administrative calendar, not a quality or discipline ranking.
Amherst corporate-led employer book
corporate / other employers lead this 190-row book at 54% (top named: Tiveron Law Pllc).
27 blank-employer rows sit beside the named book.
Also present: law firms (53), education (7).
Roles are heuristic labels on OCA employer strings (government, law firm, education, military, corporate, blank) - not a practice-area or quality ranking.
Register status - Amherst
- Registered
Currently registered
169 office rows
- Due to reregister 12
Due to reregister within 30 days of birthday
12 office rows
- Delinquent 6
Delinquent
6 office rows
- Susp. delinquent 3
Suspended, delinquent
3 office rows
What this shows 89% Currently registered among 190 office rows.
| Name | Status |
|---|---|
| Megan Michelle Poynter | Currently registered |
| Brian K. Prince | Currently registered |
| Jon E. Purizhansky | Currently registered |
| Gabor B. Rado | Currently registered |
| Therese Rahill Wincott | Currently registered |
| Christa Salvo Rivo | Due to reregister within 30 days of birthday |
| Karin Marie Ryan | Currently registered |
| Michael A. Schaeftler | Suspended, delinquent |
| Jeffrey Vincent Scherer | Currently registered |
| Keith Brian Schulefand | Currently registered |
| Courtney G. Scime | Currently registered |
| Amanda J. Scott | Currently registered |
| Robert Gerard Scumaci | Currently registered |
| Alexander Michael Segelhurst | Currently registered |
| Timothy Peter Seibold | Currently registered |
| Brendan Thomas Shannon | Currently registered |
| Stephen R. Silverstein | Currently registered |
| Christopher John Smolka | Currently registered |
| Anna Zornek Spacone | Currently registered |
| Linda Lalli Stark | Currently registered |
| Cheryl Lynn Stein | Currently registered |
| Raymond Craig Stilwell | Currently registered |
| Andrew James Stimson | Currently registered |
| Steven James Sturman | Currently registered |
| Melissa A. Tocha | Currently registered |
| Jeffrey J. Tyrpak | Currently registered |
| Norman B. Viti Jr | Due to reregister within 30 days of birthday |
| Regina A. Walker | Currently registered |
| Booker T. Washington | Currently registered |
| Edward Hanson White | Currently registered |
| Alison L. Williams | Currently registered |
| Jennifer Mandina Wiss | Currently registered |
| Thomas E. Wojtan | Currently registered |
| Carol Ann Wojtowicz | Currently registered |
| Brian Russell Wood | Currently registered |
| Colleen M. Woodworth | Currently registered |
| Elizabeth Rose Wright | Currently registered |
| Edward Peter Yankelunas | Currently registered |
| Rachel Sylvie Zimmer | Currently registered |
| Helen W. Zimmerman | Due to reregister within 30 days of birthday |
Showing 151–190 of 190 attorneys
Amherst's nearest office-count peers
Cities nearest Amherst on NY office-row count (190).
Source: NY Office of Court Administration via data.ny.gov - attorney registration counts.
Out-of-state peers for Amherst
Amherst, NY at 190 office rows and 89% Currently registered - matched below on count and active rate (not the nearest-count strip above).
Amherst office-row count vs peers
Counts and active rates come from the NY State Office of Court Administration registration extract; peers are not a market-quality or employment ranking.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.