Mr. Coffey is a senior partner and supervising partner of our Plaintiffs Negligence and Criminal Defense Practice. He focuses exclusively on malpractice, personal injury, products liability and criminal defense. With over thirty-five years of plaintiffs' negligence and criminal defense experience at the State and Federal levels, he has earned a notable reputation as a litigator.

    Mr. Coffey has obtained verdicts of over one million dollars in ten notable cases and is among 1% of the nation's attorneys who appear in a publication entitled The Best Lawyers in America for his work as a personal injury and criminal law litigator. In fact, he has the unusual distinction of being listed in three categories. Under his leadership, O'Connell and Aronowitz has become one of the most active plaintiff law firms in Upstate New York.

    In the area of medical malpractice, Mr. Coffey has successfully litigated complicated catastrophic injury cases in multiple disciplines including neurology, obstetrics, general surgery, neurosurgery, psychology, infectious disease, pediatrics, thoracic surgery, cardiology, orthopedic surgery, neonatology and pediatric neurology. He also has an extensive appellate practice and has briefed and argued cases in the Appellate Divisions throughout the State of New York, the New York Court of Appeals and the Federal Appellate Courts.

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