[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 123 (Wednesday, September 28, 2005)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1970]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           CELEBRATING HISCOCK & BARCLAY'S 150TH ANNIVERSARY

                                 ______
                                 

                           HON. BRIAN HIGGINS

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                     Wednesday, September 28, 2005

  Mr. HIGGINS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize Hiscock & 
Barclay, a legal institution in the State of New York.
  In 1855 founding partners and brothers L. Harris and Frank Hiscock 
opened a two-man law office in Tully, NY.
  H. Douglas Barclay later became a partner in the firm, now known as 
Hiscock & Barclay. Mr. Barclay dedicated 40 years to the practice and 
has also served his fellow citizens as a 20-year member of the New York 
State Senate, his country as a President George H.W. Bush appointee as 
director of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and was named 
United States Ambassador to the Republic of El Salvador by current 
President Bush.
  Throughout the years Hiscock & Barclay's team has grown to 160 
attorneys working in offices in Syracuse, Buffalo, Rochester, Albany 
and New York City. The firm's attorneys have held various auxiliary 
roles including: former general counsels of New York State's Department 
of Environmental Conservation, Department of Social Services and Health 
Planning Commission; a nationally syndicated media commentator; 
district attorneys and Court of Appeals judges; New York State and 
Federal Representatives; a former NFL football player; the former 
general counsel of a North American trade association; and a World War 
II prisoner of war.
  In the last century and a half, Hiscock & Barclay has evolved from a 
practice dedicated to railroad, banking and manufacturing law, to one 
that now covers 26 practice areas ranging from construction and 
environmental law, to labor, real estate and international business 
services.
  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to have this opportunity to recognize 
Hiscock & Barclay, a firm with a long tradition of commitment to 
defending the law, upon this, their 150th anniversary.

                          ____________________