Law Offices Of SRIS, P.C.

Focus and practice areas

The firm covers both civil and criminal matters for clients in New York and New Jersey. Family law sits at the front of that list. The team handles divorce, custody, and child support, which are the cases most households reach a lawyer for when a marriage ends. These matters often run on parallel tracks. A divorce filing, a custody schedule, and a support calculation can all move at once, and each has its own paperwork and its own timeline.

Family cases tend to follow a set path. A divorce begins with a petition and financial disclosure, then moves toward a settlement or, if the parties cannot agree, a hearing. Custody questions turn on the child's interests, and a court can revisit an arrangement later if circumstances change. Support amounts follow state guidelines that weigh income and time with the child. The firm works within that structure on behalf of one side.

Criminal defense is a second pillar. The firm takes felony and misdemeanor cases, and it handles federal matters as well. A criminal case moves through arraignment, discovery, pretrial motions, and either a plea or a trial. The early decisions, on bail and on which motions to file, often shape what the later stages look like.

Traffic and driving offenses

Traffic defense is a defined part of the practice. The firm represents drivers in DUI and DWI cases, reckless driving charges, and license suspension matters. These cases carry two separate stakes. One is the criminal or traffic charge itself. The other is the administrative question of whether a person keeps a license, which can proceed on its own track at the motor vehicle agency. Both sides tend to run on deadlines that arrive soon after a stop, so the timing of a response matters.

Business, contracts, and civil disputes

On the civil side, the firm handles business law and entity formation. That work covers choosing a company structure and filing the documents that bring it into existence. It also does contract drafting, contract review, and breach disputes. Personal injury and general civil litigation complete the list. A contract matter can begin quietly, with drafting and review, and turn into litigation only if one party later fails to perform. The firm handles both ends of that sequence.

The attorney who runs the firm

Mr. Sris is the owner and founder. He started the firm in 1997, which gives the practice a record under the same name that goes back more than twenty-five years. He worked as a prosecutor before moving into private practice.

That prosecutorial background has a plain bearing on the criminal and traffic work. A former prosecutor has watched the state assemble and present its cases, and that view from the other table informs how a defense is planned. In my opinion, it is one of the more useful facts on the firm's page for anyone weighing a criminal or DUI matter. The site names Mr. Sris as the attorney behind the practice and does not list his law school or the years of his bar admissions.

Admissions across several jurisdictions

Mr. Sris is admitted to practice in Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia, New Jersey, and New York. That is five jurisdictions, a wider bar footprint than most single-attorney offices carry. On this listing, the firm represents clients in New York and New Jersey.

Multi-state admission earns its keep when a legal problem crosses a state line. A family that relocates, a driver charged away from home, or a contract signed in one state and performed in another can raise questions in more than one place. An attorney licensed in several states can address those questions directly. Without that reach, a file often has to be passed to outside counsel in the second jurisdiction, which adds cost and a handoff. The firm's admissions in New York and New Jersey line up with the two states it serves.

How clients work with the firm

The firm meets clients by appointment. It offers both in-person and video consultations, so a person who cannot travel to the Buffalo office can still speak with the attorney. Staff assist clients in English and Spanish. A toll-free intake line takes messages at any hour, which gives a caller a way to open a matter outside a scheduled meeting.

The bilingual service is worth flagging on its own. A client who is more at ease in Spanish can talk through a divorce or a criminal charge in that language, and those are conversations where precise understanding carries weight. The appointment format also sets a clear structure: a client books a time, and the meeting is set aside for that matter. The firm keeps a presence on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, and YouTube, which gives prospective clients a few places to read what it posts before they call.

What clients describe

Client comments point to a couple of consistent themes. Several people came to the firm from out of state and found it through an online search, then stayed for matters such as custody. As a reviewer, I read that as a sign the office is set up to work with clients who are not local, a fit that squares with the video-consultation option and the toll-free intake line.

The other recurring note is responsiveness. Clients describe reaching the office during urgent moments and getting a call or text back within a short window, often relayed through support staff who pass word to the attorney. Communication style is hard to measure from the outside, so I treat these accounts as impressions rather than proof. They recur often enough to be worth recording, and they align with a practice that answers its intake line around the clock.

Taken together, the record here is that of a firm built around one experienced attorney, with a broad civil and criminal practice, bar admissions in five jurisdictions, and service to clients in New York and New Jersey. It has operated under Mr. Sris since it opened in 1997, and it runs its work from an office in Buffalo, New York.