John LaMancuso | Jamestown Accident Lawyer

John I. LaMancuso was born and raised in Western New York.  He advises individual, business, and municipal clients in various legal matters and disputes in Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany, and Erie Counties.

Mr. LaMancuso has substantial experience representing individuals seriously injured in car accidents, work accidents, falls and other incidents on construction sites, slips, trips, and falls on defective premises, dog bites and attacks, and sporting events and recreational activities.
Mr. LaMancuso has been named to the National Trial Lawyers “Top 40 Under 40” list and has been rated by attorney rating firm, Martindale-Hubbell, “Distinguished” for High Professional Achievement and Ethics.

Mr. LaMancuso is a member of the New York State Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association’s Civil Practice Law and Rules Committee, the American Association for Justice, the Bar Association of Erie County, the Jamestown Bar Association, the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, and the Robert H. Jackson Inn of Court.  He is a past member of the New York State Bar Association’s Town and Village Justice Courts Task Force.  Mr. LaMancuso is admitted to practice in the Court of the State of New York and in the United States District Court for the Western District of New York (WDNY).

Mr. LaMancuso finished in the top ten-percent of his 1L class at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and was invited to join the Arizona State Law Journal.  He then transferred to SUNY Buffalo Law School to finish his legal education where he intended to practice law – Western New York.  While in law school, Mr. LaMancuso was a summer clerk to a Justice of the New York State Supreme Court and clerked for a plaintiff’s firm in Buffalo.

Active in his community, Mr. LaMancuso is a member of the Jamestown Kiwanis Club and the Chautauqua Region Community Foundation and is co-chair of the Professionals Committee of the United Way of Southern Chautauqua County.  He resides in the Southern Tier with his wife and their two children.

Position	Organization	Location	Duration
Attorney at Law	Lewis & Lewis, PC	Jamestown, NY	Present

School	Degree	Major	Graduation
University at Buffalo Law School, SUNY	J.D.	Law School	2012
Indiana University-Bloomington	BS		2008

State / Court	Date
New York	2013

• American Association for Justice, CLE Committee | Member
  New York State Bar Association, Committee on Civil Practice Law and Rules | Member
  United States District Court, Western District of New York | Member
  New York State Bar Association, Criminal Justice Section | Member
  New York State Bar Association, Municipal Law Section | Member
  New York State Bar Association, Criminal Justice Section | Member
  Chautauqua Region Community Foundation | Member
  New York State Bar Association, Torts, Insurance and Compensation Law Section | Member
  St. Bonaventure University Mock Trial | Judge
  New York State Trial Lawyers Association | Member
  Robert H. Jackson Center American Inn of Court | Member
  Jamestown Bar Association | Member
  New York State Bar Association | Member
  New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers | Member
  American Association for Justice | Member
  Bar Association of Erie County, Negligence Committee | Member
  Bar Association of Erie County, Young Lawyers Committee | Member
  American Bar Association | Member
  Bar Association of Erie County | Member

• Distinguished | Martindale-Hubbell | 2018
  Top 40 Under 40 | National Trial Lawyers | 2017
  Magna Cum Laude | SUNY Buffalo Law School | 2012

• Representative Cases
  

  Matter of Ficek v Akron Cent. Sch. Dist., 144 A.D.3d 1601 (4th Dept 2016)

  Sopkovich v Smith, 2018 164 A.D.3d 1598 (4th Dept 2018)

• Falconer High School Career Day | The Practice of Law | 2017
  Ending Distracted Driving - Falconer High School | Ending Distracted Driving - American Association for Justice | 2017
  Jamestown High School Career Day | Law School and the Practice of Law | 2016
  

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