Managing Partner
Company: Tullylegal
Location: Buffalo
Posted on: November 1, 2024
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Job Description:
As Managing Partner at Tully Rinckey PLLC, Anthony relies
heavily on his vast leadership experience in overseeing the daily
operations of the Buffalo office and its staff. As the Chair of
Tully Rinckey PLLC's nationwide Military and National Security
practice groups, Anthony supervises the training, performance, and
daily operations of attorneys in both practice areas across the
United States. As a military leader and trainer, having served more
than 28 years in the U.S. Army and Army Reserve, Anthony brings
decades of leadership, training and experience to the Buffalo
office. Anthony has previously served in a brigade-level staff
sergeant major position as a master sergeant and has more than a
decade of experience as a first sergeant of multiple combat
engineer drill sergeant companies. He has served as a senior drill
sergeant, a combat intelligence advisor to the New Iraqi Army and a
battalion-level master combatives instructor. Anthony has spent
nearly three decades training and supervising thousands of soldiers
and officers across two different countries' armed forces. He has
maintained an active security clearance for nearly that entire
period.As an attorney, Anthony focuses much of his time on the
representation of military personnel, federal agents and employees,
as well as private employers and non-profit corporations. Anthony's
practice areas include corporate, labor and employment, military
law, national security representation, and veterans' benefits.
Anthony is the co-founder and prior co-director of the University
at Buffalo School of Law Veterans Law practicum and served as an
adjunct professor for the law school's first-of-its-kind
asynchronistic nationwide Veterans Law course.Throughout his legal
career, Anthony has attained a high degree of peer recognition and
professional achievements, including being selected by Super
Lawyers as a Rising Star for seven years running (2018, 2019, 2020,
2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024), being selected as a New York Law
Journal Managing Partner of the Year Finalist in 2024, being
selected as the Judge Robert T. Russell Veteran Advocate of the
Year Award for the NYS Bar Association in 2023, being selected as
the National Security Lawyers Association Attorney of the Year in
2023, being named a Distinguished Leader by the New York Law
Journal in 2022, being named to the NYS Veterans Advocate of the
Year Honor Roll for the NYS Bar Association in 2021, and receiving
the AVVO Client's Choice Award in 2017.Anthony is currently
admitted to practice law in New York State. He is admitted to
practice before the United States Court of Federal Claims, the
United States District Court - Western District of New York, the
United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, the United
States Army Court of Criminal Appeals, the United States
Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals and the United States
Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals. Anthony is accredited through
the Department of Veterans Affairs and is also admitted to practice
before the Federal Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims in
Washington, DC. Anthony is an experienced DOHA and security
clearance litigator, with notable victories published involving
alleged violations of the Alcohol Consumption and Criminal Conduct
guidelines and foreign preference and foreign influence guidelines.
Anthony has participated in ROTC Disenrollment Boards across the
country, stretching from Boston, MA to Flagstaff, AZ and has
successfully litigated PEB cases across the country, including the
Navy Yard in Washington, DC, Ft. Sam Houston, TX and remotely for
cases in Puerto Rico involving members of the USPHS and the
Commissioned Corp. He has extensive experience assisting clients in
navigating matters involving security clearance suspensions and
revocations, appeals to the Discharge Review Boards and Boards for
Correction of Military Records, UCMJ violations and non-judicial
punishment, appeals for service-connection before the Department of
Veterans Affairs, rebuttals to GOMORs and QMP selection
notifications and requests for Special Selection Boards. Anthony
has also negotiated the surrender of multiple deserters and has
assisted with debt remission and waiver requests.Anthony currently
serves on the Board of Directors for multiple 501(C)(3)
not-for-profit corporations, including currently serving as Board
Chair for the National Security Lawyers Association (NSLA). He has
represented dozens of local businesses and currently serves as
outside general counsel for many local organizations, including VFW
and American Legion Posts. Anthony's experiences as a corporate
attorney and the prior owner of a construction company have been
instrumental in his ability to train, educate, and represent local
businesses and business owners in matters involving management,
private employment, business formations, contract review, articles
of incorporation, bylaws, separation negotiations and many other
business-related issues. Anthony remains actively involved with
each business and makes sure he is available at all times to assist
with any emergency situations. Anthony is a frequent presenter for
the U.S. Small Business Administration and Boots to Business
events.A combat veteran, Anthony was deployed in 2004 and imbedded
into the New Iraqi Army as a member of a nine-man advisor support
team assigned to advise the commanding general of Iraq's first
operation brigade throughout day-to-day training and combat
operations. Temporarily attached to the First Marines in Fallujah,
Anthony served as the intelligence advisor and .50 cal. gunner
throughout Operation New Dawn, where he received his first of two
Bronze Star Medals for actions in direct combat. Anthony was later
relocated to Tadji, Iraq to assist Special Operations Forces in
training and sustaining the first plain clothes reconnaissance and
surveillance teams in the New Iraqi Army. Anthony's teams were
deployed throughout the Diyala Province for elections security and
reconnaissance missions. While serving in Iraq, Anthony was awarded
a second Bronze Star Medal and the Combat Action Badge, among other
awards and recognition.Upon returning home, Anthony quickly
obtained the rank of first sergeant at the young age of 30. Shortly
thereafter, Anthony served dual roles as both first sergeant and
acting commander for more than a year. Anthony has been honored as
the 2009 "WNY Army Reserve Soldier of the Year," January 2015 WNY
Heroes "Hero of the Month," and is a recipient of the two
Meritorious Service Medals, four Army Commendation Medals, 10 Army
Achievement Medals, the silver De Fleury Medal and many other
awards.As a service-connected disabled combat veteran, Anthony has
refocused his work ethic toward building a practice dedicated to
training, educating, and representing his fellow veterans,
veteran-owned businesses, federal employees and local companies and
corporations. Anthony is partially responsible for the creation of,
and initially served as the Co-Director for, the University at
Buffalo Law School's first Veterans Law Practicum. He served as a
member of the nation's first military discharge upgrade advisory
board and spent years as the Chair of the Erie County Bar
Association's Committee on Veterans and Service-Members' Legal
Issues.Representative Matters:Anthony currently serves as general
counsel for multiple businesses throughout Western New York,
including certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Businesses
(SDVOB). He provides advice and assistance with business
formations, partnership agreements, contract review, employee
negations and separations, intellectual property compliance, civil
disputes, and many other areas of business and commercial
representation.Anthony represents and assists multiple
not-for-profit organizations across Western New York. He serves as
General Counsel for multiple boards and as a volunteer member on
three separate boards of directors. He provides advice and
assistance with State and Federal law compliance as it relates to
board proceedings, bylaws, employee and personnel matters and
handles civil disputes that arise throughout the course of
business.Anthony represents service members of all branches across
many different areas of military law. He has successfully
represented members facing medical retirement and separation, ROTC
disenrollment, criminal investigations, IG investigations,
administrative separation boards, non-judicial punishment,
court-martial, security clearance revocation or denial, and
separation as a result of non-selection, GOMOR, or Qualitative
Management Program. He successfully petitioned multiple Discharge
Review Boards and Boards for Correction of Military Records for
corrections, medical disability retirements and discharge
upgrades.Anthony successfully represented a Department of Homeland
Security employee in appealing the Government's decision to revoke
his TS SCI clearance. The DHS employee's clearance was reinstated
after the second-level appeal and he was reinstated to the
Department of Homeland Security.Anthony represented contractors and
covert officers in their security clearance appeals and suitability
evaluation appeals. He represented multiple applicants from receipt
of intent to deny clearance through the personal hearing before a
Department of Hearings and Appeals (DOHA) Judge.Anthony
successfully represented many service-connected veterans in their
claims against the Department of Veterans Affairs. He assisted in
obtaining monetary compensation and VA benefits for veterans with
both honorable and dishonorable periods of service.Court & Bar
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