BRIAN M. CULNAN Partner - Albany Office bculnan@icrh.com Mr. Culnan practices in the area of civil litigation before state and federal trial and appellate courts, administrative agencies and arbitration forums. He has substantial experience litigating and providing counsel on a wide range of issues, including employment discrimination, wrongful discharge and defamation, ERISA and other matters related to employee benefits, health care law, managed care liability, commercial real estate, personal injury, the New York Lemon Law, and the New York Freedom of Information Law. He has counseled clients with respect to the federal and state drug and alcohol patient confidentiality laws and regulations, and EMTALA — the federal “patient dumping” statute — coordinating legal responses to these issues for several hospitals and treatment facilities. He has also lectured on those topics, as well as the rights of health insurers to intervene in actions pending in state court. Mr. Culnan is admitted to practice before the courts of New York, the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Northern, Southern, and Western Districts of New York, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He is a member of the American Bar Association (Labor and Employment Law Section), the New York State Bar Association (Labor and Employment Law Section), the Albany County Bar Association, and the Capital District Trial Lawyers Association. A native of Albany, Mr. Culnan is a graduate of Christian Brothers Academy, where he was the Cadet Colonel and valedictorian of his graduating class, and where he currently sits on the academy's Board of Trustees. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he graduated magna cum laude and was honored by being selected to speak as the valedictorian at the college’s commencement. Mr. Culnan received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. While in law school, he focused his academic efforts in the areas of litigation and labor and employment law, and he served as a Dillard Fellow in the school’s legal research and writing program. Mr. Culnan joined Iseman, Cunningham, Riester & Hyde, LLP, upon graduation from law school. He became a partner in the firm in 2000. To Top