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.