Geoffrey Schotter

Geoffrey H. Schotter is the principal of his own firm located in Brooklyn, New York. Focusing his practice primarily on workers' compensation law, he assists clients throughout the New York City area who are seeking to obtain benefits under their employer's insurance coverage for illnesses that they have developed on the job or for injuries they have sustained in workplace accidents. Mr. Schotter also helps clients with the Social Security Disability claims, and he provides representation to plaintiffs in employment law litigation. In 2005, Mr. Schotter received a Bachelor of Arts in history and philosophy from Cornell University. After spending a year tutoring undergraduate students at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, he enrolled at Case Western Reserve University School of Law while at the same time pursuing a Master of Arts in history from CWRU School of Graduate Studies. Mr. Schotter received his master's degree as well as his Juris Doctor in 2011. While in law school, he served on both the Case Western Reserve Law Review and the Case Western Reserve Journal of Law, Technology & the Internet. He also spent several months as a research assistant for the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio. After graduation, Mr. Schotter worked as a postgraduate legal fellow at the ACLU national office in New York City and then as a law clerk at a Long Island labor and employment firm before opening his own practice in 2012. Mr. Schotter is admitted to practice in New York as well as before the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Southern, and Northern Districts of New York. He is a member of several legal organizations, including the National Lawyers Guild, the Injured Workers' Bar Association, the Workers' Injury Law and Advocacy Group, the Brooklyn Bar Association, the New York County Lawyers' Association, and the National Employment Lawyers Association. Awards and Honors Super Lawyers® Selectees Geoffrey Schotter included in a Super Lawyers® list Honors Super Lawyers Rising Stars, 2016 - 2019 Coalition of Concerned Legal Professionals - Certificate of Appreciation, 2016 Other Sources of Feedback About Geoffrey Schotter Included on the 2022New York Metro Super Lawyers list Past Lists 2021 New York Metro Super Lawyers list 2020 New York Metro Super Lawyers list 2019 New York Metro Super Lawyers list 2018 New York Metro Super Lawyers list 2017 New York Metro Super Lawyers list 2016 New York Metro Super Lawyers list

• Human Rights Watch, Intern
• Electronic Privacy Information Center, Intern
• American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio
• Manhattan Office of Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein P.C.

• Running a Solo Workers' Compensation Practice, Workers' Injury Law and Advocacy Group, 2018
• Advanced Workers' Compensation, The Legal Aid Society, 2016
• Tutor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 2005 - 2007

• Matter of Cox v. Saks Fifth Avenue et al.
• Citation: 130 A.D.3d 1236, 13 N.Y.S.3d 681
• Court: NY App. Div., 3d Dept.
• Year: 2015
• Matter of Golovashchenko v. Asar Intl. Corp. et
• Citation: 153 A.D.3d 1475, 60 N.Y.S.3d 722
• Year: 2017
• Serial Number: NY App. Div., 3d Dept.
• Matter of Chrostowski v. Pinnacle Environmental Corporation et al.
• Citation: 169 A.D.3d 1217, 93 N.Y.S.3d 472
• Year: 2019
• Matter of Rodriguez v. City of New York et al.
• Citation: N.Y.S.3d, 172 A.D.3d 556
• Serial Number: NY App. Div., 1st Dept.

• ACLU, Fellow

• New York, 2012
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York, 2012
• U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 2012
• U.S. District Court Northern District of New York, 2019

• Injured Workers Bar Association (Member)
• Workers Injury Law and Advocacy Group (Member)
• National Lawyers Guild
• Brooklyn Bar Association
• New York County Lawyers Association