G. Thomas Curran, Jr.
Senior Counsel
Rochester, NY
(585) 258-2821
Tom helps individuals, businesses, professional service providers, health care providers, and municipalities with complex disputes, contract negotiations, and legal strategy. He has extensive experience in litigation, commercial contracting, and advising on high-stakes legal matters, including multi-million-dollar lawsuits involving complex construction and engineering issues, bankruptcy matters, breaches of contract, and other disputes.
Before joining Underberg & Kessler, Tom held a senior legal role with a large, global, publicly traded architecture, engineering, and consulting company, where he was responsible for managing litigation and professional liability claims, professional services agreements, and risk management. This background helps him approach legal solutions with a practical understanding of business operations, cost/benefit analysis, compliance obligations, and organizational priorities.
At a prior law firm, Tom gained valuable experience helping financial institutions, bankruptcy trustees, sureties, homeowners’ and condominium associations, and other business clients handle numerous bankruptcy and creditors’ rights and commercial litigation cases. Tom has also provided various in-house training programs on due diligence, contracts, ethics, risk management, and other topics.

PRACTICE AREAS

EDUCATION
Western Michigan University, Cooley Law School, J.D., cum laude
SUNY Brockport, B.S., magna cum laude

ADMISSIONS
Florida
New York State
PROFESSIONAL & COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Tom is a member of the Monroe County Bar Association and the Health and Wellbeing and the Ethics Committees. He is also a volunteer attorney for JustCause. He is a former member and past Co-Chair of the Community Service Committee and the Member Services Committee of the Hillsborough County Bar Association, Bar Leadership Institute Class of 2015 and a former member and past Vice Chair of the Teaching Tools Committee for the Hillsborough Education Foundation.
AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
Tom was named a 22017 Florida Super Lawyers Rising Star Honoree and he is a recipient of the 2013-2016 Pro Bono Lapel Pin Award from the 13th Judicial Circuit Pro Bono Committee, H.A.V.E a Heart Program.










