Coughlin & Gerhart

What Coughlin & Gerhart does

Coughlin & Gerhart LLP is a full-service regional law firm headquartered in Binghamton, New York, tracing its lineage to 1898 and operating continuously for over 125 years. The firm maintains seven offices across New York's Southern Tier and Northern Pennsylvania, including locations in Ithaca, Owego, Bainbridge, Cortland, Hancock, and Walton (NY), and Montrose (PA). It is structured as a privately held limited liability partnership (LLP), partner-owned and managed by Managing Partner Rachel A. Abbott, with no external institutional investors or parent entity.

The firm delivers legal services through nine distinct practice areas: Accidents & Personal Injury, Business & Banking, Family Law, Labor & Employment Law, Litigation & Trial, Public Law, Real Estate Law, Trusts/Estates/Elder Law, and Workers' Compensation & Disability. It employs 51+ active attorneys organized into a hierarchy of Managing Partner, Partners, Special Counsel, Of Counsel, and Associates, plus retired and emeritus attorneys. There is no proprietary technology platform; service delivery is traditional attorney-led practice supported by standard professional-services tooling (LawPay for client billing, website CMS for marketing).

Revenue is generated through three principal streams: (1) traditional hourly and standard legal billing across business, banking, family law, litigation, real estate, trusts & estates, and workers' compensation matters; (2) contingency-fee arrangements for personal injury and Social Security disability cases (25% of backpay, capped at the SSA maximum); and (3) title insurance services through an underwriting relationship with Chicago Title Insurance Company. The firm serves a diversified client base spanning individuals and families, public- and private-sector employers, municipalities and school districts, financial institutions, and businesses across upstate New York and Northern Pennsylvania. Client acquisition is driven by free consultations, referral networks, geographic accessibility across seven offices, community presence, and content marketing (blog, video, FAQ pages) distributed via Facebook and LinkedIn. The firm has earned Tier 1 Best Law Firms recognition (U.S. News / Best Lawyers) in Banking & Finance Law and Labor & Employment Law for multiple consecutive years, alongside Best Lawyers 2026 individual recognition and Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent peer rating.

Name

Coughlin & Gerhart

Legal name

Coughlin & Gerhart LLP

Website

https://cglawoffices.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1898

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Coughlin & Gerhart LLP is a full-service regional law firm founded in 1898, headquartered in Binghamton, NY, with seven offices across New York's Southern Tier and Northern Pennsylvania. It serves individuals, businesses, municipalities, and financial institutions through 51+ attorneys across nine practice areas including personal injury, banking, labor & employment, and real estate.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Legal Services

NAICS

Offices of Lawyers (541110)

SIC

Services-Legal Services (8111)

akta.pro primary industry

Employment & Labor Law (BPAHAAAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Personal Injury & Insurance Defense (BPAHAAAM)

Keywords

• Legal services
• Personal injury law
• Business banking law
• Estate planning
• Real estate law

Headquarters

HQ city

Binghamton

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices8 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Legal Services - Contingency Fee: Personal injury and accident cases handled on contingency fee basis where firm is paid only if client recovers damages
2. Legal Services - Hourly/Standard Billing: Traditional hourly billing and standard legal fee arrangements for business, banking, family law, litigation, real estate, trusts & estates, workers compensation, and other legal matters
3. Title Insurance Services: Title insurance services utilizing Chicago Title Insurance Company as underwriter

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Coughlin & Gerhart LLP is a full-service law firm providing legal representation through nine practice areas: Accidents & Personal Injury, Business & Banking, Family Law, Labor & Employment Law, Litigation & Trial, Public Law, Real Estate Law, Trusts/Estates & Elder Law, and Workers' Compensation & Disability. The firm serves individuals, businesses, financial institutions, municipalities, and educational entities across New York's Southern Tier and Northern Pennsylvania. Services are delivered by 51+ attorneys across seven office locations, with billing through standard hourly fees or contingency arrangements depending on practice area.

Product overview

Coughlin & Gerhart LLP is a full-service regional law firm offering legal services through nine distinct practice areas. The firm operates as a unified legal services practice rather than a platform with modular products. The core offering consists of practice-specific legal services: Accidents & Personal Injury (including motor vehicle accidents, premises liability, wrongful death, construction accidents, product liability, medical negligence); Business & Banking (corporate, transactional, and financial institution services); Family Law (divorce, custody, adoption); Labor & Employment Law (exclusively for employers); Litigation & Trial (civil and criminal matters); Public Law (municipal and education law); Real Estate Law (residential and commercial transactions); Trusts, Estates, & Elder Law (estate planning, administration, Medicaid planning); and Workers' Compensation & Disability. These practice areas are handled by a team of attorneys with specialization across these domains, supported by paralegals and administrative staff across eight office locations in New York and Pennsylvania.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Accidents & Personal Injury Personal injury legal services for individuals injured due to negligence, including motor vehicle accidents, premises liability, wrongful death, construction accidents, product liability, medical negligence, and dog/animal bite cases.
• Business & Banking Business and banking law services for corporate clients ranging from small businesses to large financial institutions, including business formation, mergers & acquisitions, commercial law, commercial real estate, health law, and not-for-profit law.
• Family Law Family law representation for individuals and families covering adoption, child custody and visitation, child support, divorce, guardianship, paternity, prenuptial agreements, separation, and spousal maintenance.
• Labor & Employment Law Labor and employment law services exclusively for employers, covering EEOC claims, discrimination suits, OSHA citations, discipline proceedings, collective bargaining, NLRB/PERB proceedings, and management training seminars on employment law compliance.
• Litigation & Trial Civil litigation and trial services including business litigation, criminal law, estate disputes, family law litigation, intellectual property litigation, and real estate litigation.
• Public Law Municipal and education law services for public entities including school boards, town/village boards, zoning boards, planning commissions, Open Meetings Law compliance, FOIL requests, zoning and land use matters, SEQRA reviews, and municipal litigation.
• Real Estate Law Residential and commercial real estate legal services including title insurance, abstracts of title, land transfers, purchases, sales, leases, foreclosures, mortgages, zoning issues, and boundary disputes.
• Trusts, Estates, & Elder Law Estate planning and administration services for individuals and families including wills, trusts, probate, trust administration, elder law, Medicaid planning, and guardianships.
• Workers' Compensation & Disability Workers' compensation and disability benefits representation including New York and Pennsylvania workers' compensation claims, SSDI applications, SSI applications, and long-term disability claims on a 25% contingency fee of backpay basis.

Quantifiable outcome

• $4.9 million verdict for worker whose arm was amputated in a conveyor
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles8 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Chicago Title Insurance CompanysupportingOthersChicago Title Insurance Company serves as the firm's title insurance underwriter for real estate transactions. The firm utilizes this underwriter for both lender's and owner's title insurance policies in New York real estate transactions.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Jackson Lewis, P.C. National labor and employment law firm with offices throughout New York State. Comparable as a large-scale employer-side L&E specialist competing for the same institutional employer mandates.

Direct peers

• Barclay Damon, LLP: Upstate New York full-service law firm formed through merger including Hinman, Howard & Kattell. Comparable regional multi-office platform with strong banking, real estate, and litigation practices.
• Levene Gouldin & Thompson, LLP: Binghamton-based full-service law firm serving the Southern Tier of New York and Northern Pennsylvania. Direct competitor with overlapping practice areas including personal injury, business law, real estate, and litigation.
• Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC: Syracuse-based full-service law firm with statewide New York presence. Comparable in scale and practice breadth, with strong employer-side labor & employment and municipal practices.
• Phillips Lytle, LLP: Buffalo-based full-service firm with statewide NY reach. Comparable multi-practice regional firm serving banking, corporate, labor, and public sector clients.
• Harris Beach Murtha: Upstate New York full-service law firm with offices across the state. Directly comparable as a multi-office regional firm serving business, banking, labor & employment, and public sector clients.
• Whiteman Osterman & Hanna, LLP: Albany-based full-service firm serving New York State government, businesses, and individuals. Comparable in serving municipal, education, banking, and labor & employment clients across upstate NY.
• Tully Rinckey, PLLC: Albany-based full-service firm with strong labor & employment and military law practices. Comparable in serving public and private sector employers across New York State.
• Goldberg Segalla, LLP: Buffalo-based full-service law firm with offices across multiple states. Comparable in offering business, insurance defense, labor & employment, and litigation services to regional clients.
• Harter Secrest & Emery, LLP: Rochester-based full-service firm serving upstate NY. Directly comparable in scale and practice mix, with strong banking, corporate, labor & employment, and litigation offerings.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/CoughlinGerhart
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/463662
• Xx.com/coughlingerhart

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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