Geoffrey H. Schotter

Geoffrey H. Schotter was the principal of his own firm located in Brooklyn, New York from 2012 to 2020. In May 2020, Mr. Schotter became a managing partner in Schotter, Millican, Sinaniyeva & Masilela, LLP. 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 and illnesses they have sustained in workplace accidents. Mr. Schotter's work includes workers' compensation retaliation cases and appeals of workers' compensation decisions to the Appellate Division.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, and The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He is a member of several legal organizations, including the Brooklyn Bar Association, the New York County Lawyers' Association and the National Employment Lawyers Association.