About Melissa D. Wischerath
Melissa Wischerath is a skilled trial attorney who fights to protect the rights of people who have been injured, abused, or neglected through no fault of their own. For over 15 years, she has successfully led a wide variety of wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases for her clients, including police misconduct, institutional abuse, construction injuries, and products liability matters. Melissa is widely recognized for her compassion, her wit, and her significant track record of success in holding wrongdoers accountable. Through the course of her career, Melissa has frequently handled high-profile cases that garnered media attention. The New York Times and The Washington Post have featured her work on police abuse.
In addition, a plethora of local print and television media outlets from across the country have covered Melissa's work on the civil rights of children , wrongful death , sexual misconduct , and much else. Melissa is consistently recognized by her peers for her legal skill, professional ethics, and successful results. She has been named to The Best Lawyers in America's "Ones to Watch" and Super Lawyers' "Rising Stars" every year since 2016. She has also received the prestigious Honorable James M. Burns Federal Practice Award, an award usually only given to late-career lawyers, in recognition of her professionalism and service representing low-income and under-represented clients.
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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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.