Lawlor F. Quinlan III

Lawlor is a trial attorney with a broad-based litigation practice. He has successfully represented severely injured individuals, defended physicians in medical malpractice trials, represented corporations in contract and shareholder derivative suits, represented policy holders in insurance coverage disputes, and represented individuals, corporations, institutions, and municipalities in a wide variety of other matters. The notable client successes in which he has been involved include a $58.6 million verdict in favor of an injured athlete in 2003, which was ranked that year as one of the top 10 verdicts nationally by Lawyers Weekly USA. The award remains the largest unreduced verdict in the history of Erie County, NY. Twenty years later, in 2023, Lawlor recovered over $11 million in a six-month period for the firm's clients. Lawlor is a member of CONNORS LLP's group that provides special representation to the Diocese of Buffalo. He also has provided pro bono representation to indigent refugees seeking relief from the Immigration Courts. For his work obtaining asylum for a refugee who had been the victim of gun attacks in Honduras, Lawlor received the Pro Bono award from the Erie County Bar Association's Volunteer Lawyers Project in 2015. In 2017, he received the New York State Bar Association President's Pro Bono Service Award. Lawlor earned his B.A. with high honors from the University of Notre Dame's Great Books Program, and his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.