Aaron M. Schiffrik
Partner
Experience
Aaron Schiffrik represents clients in all stages of litigation in a range of legal matters, including legal and medical malpractice, premises liability, motor vehicle accidents, municipal liability, and more. For clients in the construction industry, he handles design defect claims as well as construction and labor law matters. In professional liability matters, he defends accounting malpractice actions and legal malpractice claims stemming from underlying representation in commercial and residential real estate, family law, and personal injury actions. He also regularly defends physicians, nursing staff, and clinical laboratories against claims of professional negligence and misconduct. For his commercial trucking clients, he defends regional and national carriers in administrative fatality hearings and catastrophic personal injury actions.
While in law school, Aaron worked as a law clerk, where he evaluated key legal issues and prepared memorandum that was submitted to the American Arbitration Association on an issue involving interpretation of insurance law in New York State.
Related Areas
Industries
Experience Highlights
- Secured reversal of trial court’s decision and dismissal of professional malpractice claims (by New York Appellate Division Fourth Department) against clinical laboratory in $6 million failure to diagnose cancer wrongful death action
Honors & Awards
Upstate New York Super Lawyers, 2023
Upstate New York Super Lawyers, Rising Stars, 2017–22
Background
Admissions
- New York
- U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of New York
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Education
- Syracuse University College of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2011
- Moot Court Society
- National Appellate Advocacy Team
- The College of Wooster, B.A., 2008
Professional Affiliations
- Onondaga County Bar Association
- Trucking Association of New York
Community Involvement
- Food Bank of Central New York
Training and Certifications
- Department of Labor OSHA-30 Construction Training
News & Knowledge
Publications & Events
- Contributor, Goldberg Segalla’s Life Science Matters blog: read Aaron’s blog posts here