Barclay Damon announced that law clerks PETER J. EVANGELATOS and FORREST T. YOUNG were admitted to the New York State Bar and named associates at the firm. Evangelatos is a member of the intellectual property litigation practice area. He graduated from Albany Law School of Union University and served as a judicial intern for U.S. District Judge Lawrence E. Kahn and as a summer associate for the Long Island intellectual property firm Carter, DeLuca, Farrell & Schmidt.

Young is part of the environmental, regulatory, and project development practice areas. He graduated from a joint degree program at Syracuse University College of Law and the Syracuse Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, and worked as a Department of Justice legal intern in its Criminal Division’s Public Integrity section before spending two years in Barclay Damon’s summer associate program.

WILLIAM B. CABLE has joined Barclay Damon as its new Syracuse office manager. He brings seven years of experience from BrownGreer PLC’s Richmond, Virginia, and New Orleans, Louisiana, offices, where he worked up from a contract-claims reviewer position to his most recent position as a senior analyst in October 2012. Cable reported directly to the New Orleans partner while overseeing and leading a team of 150 experts across the New Orleans office and 30 satellite offices in the Gulf Coast region. 

TERACAI has promoted members to its Cisco product management team. CHRIS SPAULDING has been promoted to senior product manager. SHANNON TREACY will take on additional responsibilities in the Cisco business and is being promoted to Cisco product manager. Spaulding has been with TERACAI since its inception in 2009 as a regional sales manager. Before that, he served as an account executive and team leader at CXtec, TERACAI’s sister company, since 2000. Treacy has been with TERACAI since 2014, most recently as a product manager. Before that, she served as a sales-support coordinator.

The Central New York Labor Council said it has elected its first female president in more than 150 years, SAMANTHA DERISO. She was elected following the retirement of outgoing President Patrick Costello. DeRiso is currently employed by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union and has been a member of the labor movement for over 30 years. Her background includes organizing more than 600 people employed by the Mohawk Valley Health System to fight for higher wages and safer working conditions, participating in numerous strikes, and traveling the country to work with various labor unions in their grassroots-organizing campaigns.