About Eugene
Eugene Welch is a partner at Tully Rinckey PLLC in Rochester, New York, specializing in federal and state litigation, as well as governmental compliance investigations. He has been practicing law since 1971, with experience in municipal defense and civil rights litigation. His practice areas include litigation, mediation, municipal defense. Governmental compliance investigations. Mr. Welch earned his Juris Doctor from The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law in 1970 and his Bachelor of Arts from St. John Fisher College in 1967. He began his legal career as a confidential law clerk to the Honorable Aubrey E.
Robinson, Jr., U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Columbia, from 1970 to 1971. In 1971, he joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York in Syracuse, where he was responsible for organized crime prosecutions and Economic Stabilization Act matters. For his work, he received the Special Achievement Award from the U.S. Attorney General. In 1975, he transferred to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Western District of New York in Rochester, handling criminal investigations, prosecutions, trials, appeals, and defending civil claims against the United States.
He was honored with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Award of Honor in 1977. In 1979, Mr. Welch was appointed Assistant Attorney General in charge of the New York State Attorney General’s Rochester Regional Office, managing a team of lawyers and overseeing civil and criminal litigation on behalf of the state and its agencies. He served in this role until 1995, when he joined Harris, Chesworth, Johnstone & Welch, LLP, focusing on municipal liability defense, personal injury, civil rights litigation, commercial litigation, insurance defense, and government compliance work. In 2018, he became a partner at Tully Rinckey PLLC, where he continues to apply his extensive knowledge in civil litigation defense. He has been recognized as a "Super Lawyer" by the New York Super Lawyer’s Magazine Upstate Edition from 2008 to 2015 and was named to the 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America. Mr.
Welch is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the Monroe County Bar Association. He has served as a Trustee and was a member of the Founding Board of Governors of the Academy of Law of the Monroe County Bar Association from 1992 to 1994. He has also been a lecturer at Continuing Legal Education Programs for the New York Municipal Insurance Reciprocal and at the National Business Institute. He is a Certified Federal Court Mediator, having been specially invited by all Federal Judges in the Western District of New York. His office is located at 400 Linden Oaks, Suite 110, Rochester, NY 14625.
