Syracuse-founded Hiscock & Barclay has absorbed Elmira-based Davidson & O’Mara, a seven-lawyer litigation firm with expertise in government operations and insurance and in municipal defense.

Hiscock’s seven new attorneys include partners Thomas O’Mara and Bryan Maggs; of counsel John O’Mara and Rance Reynolds Jr.; and three associates. Thomas O’Mara is a Republican state senator, while Maggs is Chemung County Attorney. John O’Mara was special counsel in 1995 to then-Gov. George Pataki and a former member of the Commission on Judicial Nomination.