About Christopher R. Poole
Christopher R. Poole focuses his practice in the area of commercial litigation. He represents clients engaged in a wide variety of high-stakes legal disputes. Mr. Poole's clients range from individuals, small family-owned businesses, high-profile companies based in Western New York, and international conglomerates.
Mr. Poole has nearly twenty years of experience handling complex litigation matters involving commercial litigation, business disputes, labor and employment, employment discrimination, municipal law, and personal injury. Prior to joining Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria, Mr. Poole served as an attorney for the City of Buffalo and the Buffalo Board of Education. In these roles, Mr. Poole represented these municipal entities, their officers, and employees in Federal and State Court as well as administrative proceedings, arbitrations, and mediations.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria
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An Erie County jury awarded $100 million to a woman sexually abused over four years beginning at age 12, the largest Child Victims Act verdict in New York State history.
A Monroe County jury ordered former Rochester Catholic priest Foster Rogers to pay $95 million to a man he sexually assaulted in 1979, when the victim was 15 years old, in one of the largest Child Victims Act verdicts in New York history.
An Erie County jury awarded $65 million to a woman who was sexually abused over seven years as a child by former Buffalo YMCA counselor James B. Jackson, in one of the largest verdicts under New York's Child Victims Act.
An Erie County jury awarded $30 million to a man who was sexually abused as a child by Rev. Douglas D. Thore, a Lutheran pastor in Marilla, NY, in what was reported as the largest Child Victims Act verdict in Western New York at the time.
An Erie County jury awarded $25 million to a man sexually abused by his Boy Scout troop leader in Cheektowaga during the early 1970s, in what presiding Judge Mark Grisanti described as the first jury verdict reached under New York's Child Victims Act.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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