Robert L. Boreanaz

Senior Partner at Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria
Buffalo, NYAdmitted 1990

About Robert L. Boreanaz

Robert L. Boreanaz focuses his practice in the areas of union-side labor law and plaintiff-side employment law. He has litigated cases throughout New York State as well as in Delaware, Texas, and Illinois. Mr. Boreanaz has extensive trial experience, arguing before state, appellate, and federal courts. As an example of Mr. Boreanaz's work, he recently reached a settlement of $1.8 million in an employment matter on behalf of a corrections officer working at the New York State Department of Correctional Service.

Mr. Boreanaz is a senior partner with the law firm Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria, a mid-size, full-service firm based in Buffalo, New York, with offices throughout Western New York and in California. He is the chairperson of the firm's Labor and Employment Practice Area. Mr. Boreanaz is consistently named to leading peer recognition publications, including Best Lawyers in America and New York Super Lawyers . Lipsitz Green was the only firm recently given a first-tier ranking in the Buffalo metropolitan area for Employment Law-Individuals' in U.S. News & World Report/Best Lawyers ' "Best Law Firms."

Mr. Boreanaz is active in the bar and legal community. He has been a member of the New York State Bar Association and its executive board for over twenty years. Mr. Boreanaz is a frequent lecturer, having made several presentations for the New York State Bar Association as well as appearing on radio and television and in print as a commentator on legal affairs.

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

State University of New York at Buffalo
J.D., 1989
Canisius College
Undergraduate, 1986

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of New York, admitted 1990

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