A. Craig Purcell - Member

A. CRAIG PURCELL, born Brooklyn, New York, June 29, 1948; admitted to bar, 1974, New York and U.S. District Court Eastern and Southern District of New York; 1981, U.S. Supreme Court.  Education: Hamilton College, (B.A. 1970) and Brooklyn Law School (J.D., 1973).  Instructor: Trial Techniques Program, Hofstra Law School, 1984-1985.  Founding Officer, 1977 and Dean, 1981-1983, Suffolk Academy of Law.  Member: Suffolk County (Director, 1981-1983 and 1990-1999), President, 1995-1996; Chairman: Criminal Law Committee, 1987-1988; Judiciary Screening Committee, 1989-1990) and New York State (Member: Executive Committee, 2001-; Vice President, 10th Judicial District, 2001-; Chairman, New York state Conference of Bar Leaders, 1998-1999) and American (Member, House of Delegates 1996-1997) Bar Associations.  PRACTICE AREAS: Trial Practice; Personal Injury; Products Liability; Criminal Law; Estates and Probate; Real Estate.

Email: acpurcell@glymerlaw.com

A. Craig Purcell is the firm’s chief trial counsel, practicing primarily in personal injury, medical malpractice and criminal defense. In his most recent significant trial, Sloup v. Loeffler, Purcell achieved a 2.1 million dollar verdict against the Town of Islip and the individual defendants in the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of New York.  Although the verdict was set aside by the court as excessive, the matter was favorably settled under a confidentiality agreement.

Craig is admitted and has practiced in all of the courts of the State of New York, the United States Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. A graduate of Hamilton College and Brooklyn Law School, Craig is a veteran of thirty-seven (37) years of practice and is a former President of the Suffolk County Bar Association, Vice President of the NYS Bar Association, a founding officer of the Suffolk Academy of Law.  He served as the Academy’s president from 1981 through 1983, and as Chair of the Suffolk County Bar Association Judiciary Screening Committee for four years. 

Anthony W. Mercep - Member

ANTHONY W. MERCEP, born Newport News, Virginia, October 31, 1945; admitted to bar, 1980, Massachusetts; 1981, New York; 1982, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York; 1988, U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Court of Military Appeals. Education: State University of New York at Oswego (B.S., 1967); Western New England College (J.D., 1980). Phi Delta Phi. Author: "Warrens Weed on New York Real Property, Vendor & Vendee." Member: Suffolk County Bar Association (Member: Professional Ethics Committee, Real Property Committee, Elder Law Committee, Maritime & Recreational Boating Law), New York State and American Bar Associations; Suffolk Academy of Law, [Lt., U.S. Navy, Aviator, 1967-1972]. PRACTICE AREAS: Real Estate Law; Mortgage Banking; Commercial Real Estate; Wills, Trusts and Estates; Elder Law.

Email: awmercep@glymerlaw.com

Tony Mercep flew two tours in Vietnam as a Naval Aviator before graduating from the Western New England College of Law in 1980. Mr. Mercep leads the Real Estate Department at Glynn Mercep & Purcell, where his expertise and genuine interest in the problem-solving aspects of Real Estate transactions, combined with full-time, dedicated paralegal support, enable the consistent delivery of hands-on personal attention to specific client needs. Mr. Mercep’s “team” concept of client service results in exceptional value and efficiency while maintaining quality and flexibility.

Based upon his experience in all aspects of the practice of Real Estate law, Mr. Mercep authored the “Real Property, Vendor & Vendee” volume of Warren’s Weed on New York Real Property, the seminal text on Real Estate contracts. Similarly, his experience and qualifications led Mr. Mercep’s peers to appoint him to membership in the Suffolk County Bar Association’s Elder Law Committee and Professional Ethics Committee, as well as the Real Property Committee. Mr. Mercep is admitted in both Massachusetts and New York, as well as the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Timothy B. Glynn - Member

TIMOTHY B. GLYNN, born Brooklyn, New York, September 11, 1950; admitted to bar, 1976, New York and U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York; 1981, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Claims Court and U.S. Court of Military Appeals; 1981-1982, U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals. Education: Fordham University (B.A., 1972; J.D., 1975). Lecturer: Suffolk County Emergency Services, A.E.M.T., 1982-1993. Standards of Care, American College of Emergency Physicians, Standard of Care, 1984. American Heart Association Symposium on P.A.D.s, 2001. Member: Suffolk County, New York State and American Bar Associations; American Trial Lawyers Association; The American Society of Law and Medicine, Inc.; Project Management Institute. PRACTICE AREAS: Trial Practice; Emergency Medical Service Law; Contract Negotiations, Business Organizations, Computer Software Law; Technology Contracts.

Email: tbglynn@glymerlaw.com

Tim Glynn leads the Litigation Department at Glynn Mercep & Purcell, but his versatility sets the tone for our attorneys’ efforts on behalf of clients. Using the lessons and experiences of twenty-eight years of trial practice, Mr. Glynn has devised successful negotiating strategies that enable small and medium-sized enterprises to deal with larger corporations and gain advantages that result in stable business relationships which protect clients from costly litigation. These strategies make Mr. Glynn a sought-after lead negotiator, and he is recognized for his abilities, particularly when involved from the preliminary stages, to implement sales algorithms that disable the value-destroying mechanisms employed by corporate legal departments.

In his twenty-eight years of practice, Mr. Glynn counts Nobel Laureate academics and individual executives among his clients, as well as small and medium-sized technology companies. Among his many successes is his representation of a regional telecommunications marketing corporation in complex contract negotiations with a division of the United Kingdom’s monolithic British Telecom. Mr. Glynn also guided and negotiated the merger and acquisition of a local corporate entity by a large, publicly-traded Canadian company and the acquisition of a qualitative research company by a national entertainment market evaluation firm. Similarly, Mr. Glynn represents individual executives in complex contractual negotiations and was the architect of what the Wall Street Journal reported to be the single largest executive compensation package ever approved by a private company.

To broaden and extend Glynn Mercep & Purcell's capacity to deliver whatever services our clients require, Mr. Glynn pioneered collaborations with both specialty law firms and large, corporate-based firms while maintaining our firm as the single point of client contact, and thereby maintaining a high standard of attentive, personal service. Additionally, a number of national and metropolitan law firms have retained Mr. Glynn of counsel in the role of lead strategist and trial counsel. Among Tim Glynn’s many trials in both personal injury and commercial cases, he counts among his most notable successes a defense verdict obtained in federal court in a complex employment discrimination suit involving allegations of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke.

An avid “blue water” sailor, Mr. Glynn graduated the Fordham University School of Law in 1975, and has lectured to the American College of Emergency Physicians, the New York State EMT Association, the regional chapter of the American Heart Association and numerous other groups. His professional memberships include the American Trial Lawyers Association as well as the American, New York State and Suffolk County Bar Associations. A Fellow of the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics, Mr. Glynn is admitted to practice before the Courts of the State of New York, as well as the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, the United States Court of Claims and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Martin F. Simon - Of Counsel

Martin Simon serves of counsel to the firm in the fields of wills, estate planning and elder law. Mr. Simon, who graduated the St. Johns University School of Law in 1999, comes to Glynn Mercep & Purcell with a background in general practice, where he learned the intricacies of Landlord Tenant Litigation along with the nuances of Elder Law and Real Estate practice. Mr. Simon is admitted in New York as well as the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York and is a member of the Suffolk County Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association.