Profile

  • Listed in:
    • The Best Lawyers in America® 2010-2024, Commercial Litigation; Copyright Law; Litigation - Intellectual Property (listed for 15 years)
    • Buffalo Business First, Legal Elite of Western New York, 2016, 2019 - 2020
    • New York Super Lawyers®, Business Litigation, 2023 (listed for more than 10 years)
    • Martindale-Hubbell®, AV Preeminent Rated
  • Pro Bono Honor Roll, United States District Court for the Western District of New York, January 2020 - June 2021
  • Erie County Bar Association
  • New York State Bar Association
  • Western New York Trial Lawyers Association, former Treasurer
  • Advocates Club of Western New York, former President
  • Senior Fellow, Trial Lawyer Honorary Society
  • Diversity Law Institute
  • Trial Law Institute
  • Eagle Scout

  • Taken well in excess of ten cases to jury verdict, and has handled dozens of appeals. 
  • Successfully defended state officials in a civil rights class action litigation resulting from the 1971 Attica riot. This included class action liability and individual damages trials and appeals therefrom.
  • Co-chaired one of the very few CERCLA cases ever to have been jury-tried nationally.

  • Quoted in "ADR Offers a Different Way to Hash Things Out," Buffalo Law Journal, August 19, 2019
  • "Avoiding the ‘Litigization’ of Arbitration," New York Law Journal, March 15, 2019
  • Quoted in "Weighing Arbitration’s Pros and Cons," Buffalo Law Journal, July 11, 2018
  • "Trial Law: A Complex Beast," Buffalo Law Journal, November 18, 2013
  • "Complex Cases Offer Chances, Challenges," Buffalo Law Journal, July 12, 2010

  • Greater Niagara Frontier Council, Boy Scouts of America, Board Member
  • Lumber City Development Corporation, Board Member
  • New York State Forest Owners Association, Niagara Frontier Chapter, Vice-Chairperson
  • Nor-Ton Red Jacket Club, Member