Schotter Millican, LLP - Brooklyn, NY

Overview

Awards and Honors

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• Schotter, Geoffrey H. On a Super Lawyers® List

Languages

• English (Primary)

• Spanish

• Polish

• Russian

Classes and Seminars

• Running a Solo Workers' Compensation Practice, Workers' Injury Law and Advocacy Group, 2018
  
• Advanced Workers' Compensation, The Legal Aid Society, 2016

Representative Cases

• 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 al.
  • Citation: 153 A.D.3d 1475, 60 N.Y.S.3d 722
  • Court: NY App. Div., 3d Dept.
  • Year: 2017
• Matter of Chrostowski v. Pinnacle Environmental Corporation et al.
  • Citation: 169 A.D.3d 1217, 93 N.Y.S.3d 472
  • Court: NY App. Div., 3d Dept.
  • Year: 2019
• Matter of Rodriguez v. City of New York et al.
  • Citation: N.Y.S.3d, 172 A.D.3d 556, WL 2179203
  • Court: NY App. Div., 1st Dept.
  • Year: 2019

Published Works

Articles

• Diachronic Constitutionalism: A Remedy for the Court's Originalist Fixation, Case Western Reserve Law Review, Vol. 60, No. 4, 2010
  The note discusses the U.S. Supreme Court cases District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. City of Chicago, and proposes a diachronic theory of constitutional meaning to bridge the gap between historical fact and normative law.
• Shouting Fire in a Burning Theater: Distinguishing Fourth Estate from Fifth Column in the Age of Wikileaks, Case Western Reserve Journal of Law, Technology, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2012
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• At America's Expense: The Mass Incarceration of the Elderly, American Civil Liberties Union, 2012
  Elderly prisoners are expensive to incarcerate and pose little danger to society, yet the population of elderly prisoners in the United States is exploding. This report makes a number of data-driven findings and reform proposals.
• Prisons for Profit: A Look at Prison Privatization, ACLU of Ohio, 2011
  This report seeks to explore the many problems that plague prisons for profit, in the areas of fiscal efficiency, safety, contributions to the community, accountability and effect on recidivism.
• Workers' Compensation: An Insurance Company Windfall, The Verdict, Vol. 23, No. 3, 2017
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• Diachronic Constitutionalism: A Remedy for the Court's Originalist Fixation, Case Western Reserve Law Review, Vol. 60, No. 4, 2010
• Shouting Fire in a Burning Theater: Distinguishing Fourth Estate from Fifth Column in the Age of Wikileaks, Case Western Reserve Journal of Law, Technology, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2012
• At America's Expense: The Mass Incarceration of the Elderly, American Civil Liberties Union, 2012
• Prisons for Profit: A Look at Prison Privatization, ACLU of Ohio, 2011
• Workers' Compensation: An Insurance Company Windfall, The Verdict, Vol. 23, No. 3, 2017