Gelber & O’Connell

Specialties

Many lawyers and law firms are able to provide their clients with compassion and individual attention after an accident. Others bring impressive trial results to the table. At Gelber & O’Connell, LLC, we are a firm that does both, delivering high-​quality legal service to our clients, while taking the time to focus on their individual needs, whether their injuries arise out of an auto accident, truck wreck, car crash, motor vehicle collision, motorcycle crash, pedestrian incident, construction accident, slip and fall, wrongful death, medical malpractice, defective product, dangerous drug or unsafe medical device.

History

Established in 2000.

Mr. Gelber began his legal career in NYC as a trial lawyer. In 1987 he moved to Buffalo and joined the plaintiff’s personal injury law firm of Gross, Shuman, Brizdle and Gilfillian, P.C. In 1994, Mr. Gelber teamed up with former New York State Supreme Court Justice Frank R. Bayger and founded the law firm of Frank R. Bayger, P.C. In the latter part of 1998, Frank R. Bayger, P.C. merged with Lipsitz, Green, Fahringer, Roll, Salisbury and Cambria, LLP and Mr. Gelber became a partner in that firm’s personal injury litigation department.

In 2000, he formed his own law firm to address the need for skilled trial lawyers to represent injured victims and to ensure each and every client receives his personal attention. In 2010, Mr. Gelber took on a full partner, Timothy G. O’Connell, who previously was senior trial counsel at the plaintiff’s personal injury law firm of Siegel, Kelleher & Kahn. In recognition, the law firm was renamed Gelber & O’Connell, LLC.