Soo-young  Chang

Soo-young Chang

Special Counsel

Practice Groups

Soo-young Chang is a trial attorney in the firm's Buffalo, New York office who practices in the areas of Products Liability and General Litigation. Starting as a prosecutor in Brooklyn, Soo-young led a long-term investigation that dismantled large narcotics-dealing gangs in a major housing project, which was featured on the front page of the New York Times. He has also defended physicians, hospitals and the City of New York against medical malpractice cases.

In 2006, Soo-young returned to Buffalo, his hometown, and has defended personal injury suits involving motor vehicle, construction-site, school-site and municipal site accidents. He has also defended medical malpractice and insurance coverage suits. Soo-young has obtained numerous jury verdicts throughout Western and Central New York on cases involving multi-million dollar potential verdicts.

Honors
  • Selected for inclusion in Business First's Who's Who in Law list
Professional Affiliations
  • Asian American Bar Association of New York
  • National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
  • New York State Bar Association
  • Bar Association of Erie County
  • Minority Bar Association of Western New York
Prior Experience
  • Kings County District Attorney's Office, Brooklyn, NY - Senior Assistant District Attorney, 1996 - 2003
Languages
  • Korean
Education
  • University of Michigan, B.A. 1991
  • Brooklyn Law School, J.D., 1996
Publications/Presentations