Barbara L. Schifeling is a Partner at Damon Morey LLP, practicing in the firm’s Litigation Department, concentrating in the areas of medical malpractice defense, clinical trials and medical device defense, and environmental law.

Ms. Schifeling devotes a significant portion of her practice to defending medical professionals who are the subject of litigation, is a frequent lecturer on medical/ legal issues to members of the health care community and has presented mock trials to hospital risk managers and nursing groups. She is co-chair of the firm’s Health Care Practice Group. She has conducted classes at the Nursing School of the State University of New York at Buffalo, and has presented at a joint medical/ law school seminar. Ms. Schifeling has been an adjunct faculty member at SUNY at Buffalo School of Law where she taught a course on depositions. Ms. Schifeling chaired a board which established a family health center which offered an alternative health care model to family practice residents.

Professional memberships include the Western New York Trial Lawyers Association, the Erie County Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association. She is past president and a current member of the Western New York Chapter of the Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York and the recipient of the 1997 Achievement Award. She has served as Western New York liaison to JALBCA (Judges and Lawyers Breast Cancer Alert), an organization which promotes awareness of breast cancer. Ms. Schifeling was named as one of Business First of Buffalo's Women Who Mean Business Award winners in 2005 and received a “Leader in the Law” award by The Daily Record in 2006. She was also listed as one of Business First of Buffalo's Who's Who in Law in 2009. Additionally, Ms. Schifeling is named among the Best Lawyers in America 2010© in the fields of Ethics & Professional Responsibility Law and Personal injury Litigation (Copyright 2009 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.) and is also named among Upstate New York's “Super Lawyers.”

Ms. Schifeling is both a member and officer of the Board of Directors of the YWCA and serves as a board member of the Kaleida Health Foundation. She has authored articles relating to health care reform and has co-authored an article on mentoring entitled, Women Mentoring Women: Modern Application of an Old Tradition. Ms. Schifeling co-presented on the topic of Alternative outside counsel agreements at a national meeting of the American Academy of Health Care Attorneys.

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