Faraci Lange, LLP

Focus and practice areas

The firm works entirely in personal injury law, and it serves Rochester, Buffalo and nearby parts of Western New York. That single focus shapes everything the website presents. Faraci Lange, LLP lists motor vehicle crashes, construction accidents, medical malpractice, and defective drugs and medical devices among the claims it handles.

The list runs wider than vehicle cases. It also covers product claims, wrongful death, toxic exposure and premises liability. Separate entries point to brain and spinal injuries, dog bites, falls, birth injuries and negligent security. In my opinion, that spread points to a firm comfortable with serious injury categories as well as everyday collision work.

Vehicle and roadway claims

Vehicle crashes sit at the center of most personal injury practices, and this one names them first. Truck and motorcycle collisions fall in the same family of claims, and each carries facts that a standard car case does not. Trucking claims often pull in federal safety rules, driver logs and the company behind the driver. Motorcycle claims often turn on the severity of the rider's injuries and a dispute over the right of way.

Car and truck cases in New York also run through the state's no-fault insurance system, which pays certain medical costs regardless of blame. To sue for pain and suffering, an injured person generally has to meet the state's serious injury threshold. That rule alone decides how many crash claims proceed, so it is a routine early question in this kind of work.

Injury and liability claims

Premises liability covers falls and unsafe conditions on someone else's property, and it reaches the negligent security claims the firm also lists. Toxic exposure claims deal with harm from chemicals or substances over time, which makes proof and timing central. Birth injury and brain and spinal injury cases involve long-term care costs, and those figures often shape the value of a claim. The breadth here suggests a firm used to handling injuries at the more severe end.

Dog bite claims round out the list, and New York handles them under its own rules on an owner's knowledge of a dangerous animal. Falls appear both as premises cases and as their own entry, which fits how often they lead to serious harm. The common thread across these types is a person hurt by someone else's conduct, and that is the whole of what the firm takes on.

How the partnership came together

The firm traces its roots to 1957, when Angelo G. Faraci began practicing personal injury law. In 1968 he and Joe Guadagnino formed Faraci Guadagnino. Faraci took the personal injury matters, and Guadagnino took the general practice work. The division of labor put injury cases at the firm's core from the start.

Paul K. Lange joined the partnership in 1975, and the name grew to Faraci Guadagnino and Lange. The current name, Faraci Lange, LLP, dates to 2007. A partnership that carries its founders' names across that many decades signals continuity, and continuity is one of the few things a prospective client can read straight from a firm's own history.

The lineage also shows how the focus has held. What began in 1968 as one partner's share of a two-lawyer firm is now a whole firm devoted to injury law. The concentration deepened as the partnership grew and renamed itself.

Where the firm keeps its offices

Rochester holds the firm's headquarters. The Buffalo office opened in early 2012, and it came after years of representing clients in Erie and Niagara Counties. The second office followed the caseload in that region, which is a grounded way to expand.

Office location carries practical weight for an injured client. Personal injury suits in New York get filed in the county where the injury happened or where a party lives. A firm with rooms in both Rochester and Buffalo can appear in the state courts that cover much of Western New York, and it can meet clients closer to home.

That reach matters more than it might seem. Travel is a real burden for someone recovering from a serious injury, and early meetings often decide whether a person hires a lawyer at all. Two offices across the region cut the distance for clients in both the Rochester and Buffalo areas.

How the team is built

The Meet Your Team section lists 22 named profiles. Among the attorneys the site names are Nichole M. Austin, Matthew F. Belanger, Kelsey M. Brigandi, Katrina L. Connelly and Teagan C. Dolan. The roster continues with Henry A. Ettinger, John A. Falk, Jennifer L. Fay, Patricia A. Grimaldi, Rae M. Lesio, Hadley E. Lundback and Josh Mankoff.

The site does not publish biographies, law schools or admission years for these attorneys. That limits what a reader can confirm about individual backgrounds. What the count does show is a staffed firm, and personal injury litigation tends to reward that depth. A single case moves through intake, investigation, medical records review, filing, discovery and, in some matters, trial, and each stage draws on different hands.

Why the head count matters

A team of this size also lets a firm carry cases that run for years. Medical malpractice and product claims often do. Files stay open while records arrive, experts weigh in and the parties trade motions, and a bench of attorneys keeps that work moving when one person is tied up in court.

The team page carries more profiles than the attorneys named here. Firms often include paralegals and intake staff alongside their lawyers, since injury cases lean on the people who gather records, track deadlines and keep clients informed. A group of this size usually rests on that kind of support.

What the case types involve

The practice areas the firm names carry different rules, and that background helps a client see which category fits. Medical malpractice claims in New York require a certificate of merit from an attorney, which confirms that a qualified medical expert has reviewed the file first. These cases turn on records and testimony, and they move slowly by design.

Construction accident claims often rely on New York Labor Law, which sets specific duties for owners and contractors on job sites that involve heights and falling objects. Those statutes can place responsibility on a site owner even when the worker's own employer ran the job. That legal footing is one reason construction cases follow their own track.

Deadlines and estates

Wrongful death claims are brought by the representative of the deceased person's estate, and any recovery passes to the estate before it reaches relatives. Product and defective drug claims usually require proof that a design, a warning or a manufacturing step fell short. Faraci Lange lists all of these among its work, which puts a good deal of technical litigation under one roof.

Timing runs underneath all of these categories. New York sets deadlines to file, and they differ by claim type and by whether a government body is involved. Missing a deadline can end a valid claim before it starts, so early contact with a lawyer is the practical step for anyone weighing a case. A firm focused on injury law handles those clocks as a matter of routine.

What holds up across the site

Two things stay consistent across the firm's pages. The first is the single practice focus: personal injury, stated plainly and carried through every listed case type. The second is the age of the firm's lineage: a 1957 start, a 2007 renaming and a 2012 Buffalo opening.

For a client comparing options, both facts do real work. A firm that handles one field handles it daily, and repetition counts in litigation that hinges on procedure, deadlines and medical proof. As a reviewer, I read the clearest signal here as the match between what the firm says it does and a partnership that has stayed in the same field for more than half a century.

The site sets out its focus, its history and its two locations plainly. Faraci Lange keeps the Faraci and Lange names to this day, with Rochester as its headquarters and Buffalo as the office it added in 2012.