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Jeffrey A. Perla
jperla@perlalawyers.com
Practice Areas
- Personal Injury
- Automobile Collision
- Construction Injury
- Slip and Fall Cases
Memberships
- Erie County Bar Association
- New York State Bar Association
- American Association For Justice
- New York Trial Lawyers Association
Education
- JD, SUNY Buffalo School of Law, 1975
- BA, SUNY Buffalo, 1972
Other
- Former Volunteer Fireman
- Former Instructor of Business and Business Law
at Erie Community College
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Jeff’s practice is limited to personal injury litigation, including automobile, slip and fall and construction related injuries.
Practice
During his over 30 years of practice, Jeff has handled hundreds of personal injury cases on behalf of the injured and has had numerous multi-million dollar recoveries. He has taken dozens of cases to trial, and is the recipient of the Erie County Trial Lawyers Award for outstanding performance in trial technique.
Significant Recent Auto Recoveries *
- 3.2 million dollars recovered for a young Buffalo woman who suffered severe spinal injuries (12 million dollars paid over lifetime)
- 2.75 million dollars recovered for a Hamburg woman who suffered back injuries in an automobile collision
- 2.1 million dollars recovered for a Hamburg man whose vehicle was rear ended by a tractor trailer
- 2.1 million dollars recovered for a Lancaster woman injured when a tractor trailer backed into her car
- 2.1 million dollars recovered for the estate of an Amherst couple killed in a Thruway accident
- 1.8 million dollars recovered for a motorcycle operator hit by a school bus
- 1.4 million dollars to Pennsylvania truck driver who was run down while exiting his tractor trailer
Significant Recent Construction Accident Recoveries *
- 2.1 million dollars recovered for a West Seneca construction worker who fell through a skylight
- 2 million dollars recovered for construction worker injured when she slid off of a roof
- 1.7 million dollars recovered for a Buffalo roofer who fell through an opening in a roof •1.5 million dollars to a roofer who was injured because of lack of safety devices
- 1 million dollars recovered for a Lancaster roofer injured in a construction fall
* Past results do not gaurantee similar outcome
Other Significant Recoveries
- Throughout his career, Jeff has also had significant recoveries in the areas of premises liability, airline crash litigation, and products liability
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