Marylou Kathryn Roshia is a partner at Damon Morey, LLP, practicing in the firm’s Litigation Department. Ms. Roshia actively appears in Federal Court on matters involving employment law, civil rights claims involving the first, fourth, fifth, eighth and fourteenth amendments, Fair Housing Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, diversity jurisdiction, and school law. She also focuses on medical malpractice defense of physicians and hospitals and the representation of physicians at proceedings before the Office of Professional Misconduct.

Ms. Roshia served as Confidential Law Clerk to the Honorable William M. Skretny, United States District Court Judge for the Western District of New York. Additionally, Ms. Roshia served as co-counsel for the Prison Superintendent in the major litigation stemming from the 1971 Attica Prison riot and co-authored a brief in support of a writ of certiorari to the United States Supreme Court. She also has served as lead counsel on numerous matters before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

Ms. Roshia was an associate with the New York City law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison from 1989 through 1991, where her focus was on commercial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, securities, and intellectual property.

In addition to her legal experience, Ms. Roshia practiced coronary care/intensive care nursing at the Albany Medical Center, surgical intensive care nursing at Rochester General Hospital, and emergency/intensive care nursing at Jones Memorial Hospital in Wellsville, New York.

Ms. Roshia is a member of the Erie County Bar Association, the New York Bar Association, the Western New York Trial Lawyers Association, and the American Association of Nurse Attorneys. Ms. Roshia is also a graduate of the Leadership Buffalo Class of 2004.

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