Michael Schiavone

Business & Corporate Attorney at Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria
Buffalo, NY

About Michael Schiavone

Michael Schiavone has provided legal guidance to businesses for 30 years. He concentrates his practice in the areas of business law, commercial real estate, and estate planning. Mr. Schiavone is experienced in regularly counseling clients in a wide array of legal matters, including: Commercial lending and financial transactions Mergers and acquisitions Corporate, partnership, and limited liability matters Business formation Business succession planning Contract negotiation and dispute resolution Tax planning for businesses and their owners Commercial real estate financing and development Estate planning Sports law Mr. Schiavone's clients come from a wide range of industries, including banks and financial institutions, hotel and hospitality chains, franchises, health care, manufacturing and distribution companies, and professional sports teams. Mr. Schiavone is chairman of the firm's Business and Corporate Practice Area and a member of the firm's Management Committee. He is fluent in Italian.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria

These results are credited to Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$100 millionVerdictTop 20 in New York · #13

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.

New York State Supreme Court, Erie County · 2023Read the full story →
$95 millionVerdictTop 20 in New York · #15

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.

New York State Supreme Court, Monroe County · 2023Read the full story →
$65 millionVerdictTop 20 in New York · #20

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.

New York State Supreme Court, Erie County · 2022Read the full story →
$30 millionVerdict

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.

New York State Supreme Court, Erie County · 2022Read the full story →
$25 millionVerdict

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.

New York State Supreme Court, Erie County · 2022Read the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Education

Syracuse University
J.D.
State University of New York at Fredonia
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of New York

Other attorneys at Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria

View firm →

Proven verdicts and settlements from other Buffalo firms

Cellino Law Injury Attorneys
Cellino Law Injury Attorneys
$19.45 million · $47.4 Million Verdict for Law Student Brain-Damaged in Thruway Road-Rage Crash
The Barnes Firm Injury Attorneys
The Barnes Firm Injury Attorneys
$19.45 million · $47.4 Million Verdict for Law Student Brain-Damaged in Thruway Road-Rage Crash

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.