Lewis & Lewis, P.C.

Lewis & Lewis has been litigating personal injury and workers’ compensation cases in the Buffalo area for over 80 years. Since the 1940s, we have been helping injured people and their families obtain damages arising from accidents and injuries.

Allan Lewis, Senior Partner and son of Norman Lewis, founder of our firm, has lived in the Buffalo area for over 70 years; 45 of those devoted to the practice of personal injury law. Allan’s success as a trial lawyer is unquestioned in the Western New York legal community. He has championed his client’s rights in all phases of legal proceedings, including a well-noted victory in New York’s Court of Appeals.

Jack Stiefel, a life-long resident of Western New York, has been practicing Workers’ Compensation Law for over 35 years. Prior to pursuing his legal career, Jack was a truck driver and member of Teamsters Local 375 for 9 years. He has hands-on experience with the challenges hard working men and women face in the work place; and the all to frequent opportunities employers and insurance companies take to infringe on workers’ rights.

Emily Downing earned her undergraduate and law degree from the University at Buffalo. Both her BA and JD were awarded cum laude. Her undergraduate degree in Communications prepared her well for both law school and lawyering. While in Law School, she was a member of the Buffalo Law Review and served as the publication’s book review editor.

Sheri DeFazio started her career with Lewis & Lewis’s workers’ compensation department in 2004, representing injured claimants. Sheri graduated from The University of Toronto in 1993, and she attended Law School in Buffalo.

Mike Coutu has over 20 years of experience as an injury lawyer. He has successfully resolved hundreds of cases for his clients and has substantial court room experience at both the trial court and appellate level.

Michael has returned to the Southern Tier, a place he has called home his entire life, to represent injured workers. Michael is passionate about counseling injured workers because his father suffered a career ending work injury many years ago. As a result, he has a keen understanding of the physical, emotional, and financial toll that a serious physical injury may have on a family.