Anthony W. Mercep - Member

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 and Mercep, 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

Tim Glynn leads the Litigation Department at Glynn and Mercep, 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 and Mercep’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.

Lawrence E. Kelly - Member

Larry Kelly came to Glynn and Mercep with a prosecutorial background in public service, having served as a Special Investigator for the Department of State, and then as Assistant District Attorney for Suffolk County, as well as the Senior Assistant County Attorney for Suffolk County. Mr. Kelly graduated from Cornell University and then Brooklyn Law School in 1982, and leads the Personal Injury Department at Glynn and Mercep. In his trial practice, Mr. Kelly’s verdicts have often exceeded one million dollars, and he is sought out as a “case doctor” because of his ability to define and prove complex theories of liability in cases other attorneys might simply reject.

Following the tragic events of September 11th, Mr. Kelly has devoted most of his time to Pro Bono efforts on behalf of victims of the September 11th attacks, as well as severely wounded and amputee Veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Mr. Kelly prepared and presented several of the first cases for the Victims’ Compensation Fund before Special Federal Master Kenneth Feinberg, and won the highest award granted in those lead cases. With that experience and background, Mr. Kelly lectures on behalf of “Trial Lawyers Care” (an association of litigators devoted to pro bono work on behalf of worthy causes), and he is also a leading attorney in the struggle to change Federal statutes to provide further benefit to Veterans of the war in Iraq. Mr. Kelly is admitted in New York State as well as the United States District Court for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, the United States Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Bradley C. Abbott - Associate

Brad Abbott is an associate in the Litigation Department at Glynn and Mercep, and leads our Appellate Practice Division. After leaving the University of Pennsylvania to pursue a career in formula car racing, Mr. Abbott received his degree from the University of Scranton, and graduated the Fordham University School of Law in 2000. At Fordham, Mr. Abbott reached the World Championships in the Phillip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition; an experience that has enabled him to prevail in the Appellate Division for the Second Department on several intricate appeals. Mr. Abbott also handles complex motion practice at Glynn and Mercep, exemplified when he prevailed in federal court on behalf of a national insurance carrier on a difficult contractual issue, and also won summary judgment on behalf of a large, local property owners’ association in State Supreme Court. Mr. Abbott is a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, and is admitted in New York, as well the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Martin F. Simon - Associate

Martin Simon is an associate at Glynn and Mercep in the Wills and Trusts Department, and demonstrates his versatility by leading our Elder Law division, as well as serving in the Real Estate and Litigation Departments. Mr. Simon, who graduated the St. Johns University School of Law in 1999, comes to Glynn and Mercep 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.

Brian P. Keifer - Of Counsel

Brian Keifer is Of Counsel to Glynn and Mercep, LLP. Mr. Keifer is a specialist in Taxation and Tax Controversy, having served as Attorney Advisor to the Honorable Lawrence L. Nameroff of the United States Tax Court.

A published author on Taxation, Mr. Keifer passed the Certified Public Accounting Exam before graduating from Loyola Law School in 1988 and then earning a prestigious L.L.M. degree in Taxation from the University of San Diego Law School in 1990. Mr. Keifer frequently lectures in his areas of expertise to both professional accounting and attorney organizations; his diverse background in corporate and public sector industry environments, as well as his business developmental and entrepreneurial experiences significantly enhance Glynn and Mercep’s ability to deliver quality, value-driven services to a wide spectrum of individual and corporate clients.

Mr. Keifer is admitted in both New York and California, and is also a member of the Suffolk County Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association.