Elizabeth M. Midgley

Ms. Midgley is a member in the firm's litigation group. She is an experienced trial attorney with success defending matters involving medical malpractice, dental malpractice, long-term care facilities, professional malpractice defense, legal professionalism and ethics, premises liability, motor vehicle accidents, railroad law, and general negligence litigation. Ms. Midgley regularly counsels and advises attorneys, hospitals, physicians, long-term care facilities, businesses, and other medical professionals.

Ms. Midgley has been successful in defending, obtaining voluntary discontinuances for, and resolving numerous claims for our clients. Ms. Midgley has tried or assisted in nearly three dozen trials in a variety of fields including medical malpractice, hospital negligence, dental malpractice, premises liability, legal malpractice, general liability, motor vehicle accidents, and railroad law.

Ms. Midgley is a past President of the Defense Trial Lawyers Association of Western New York, and its current Secretary. She was also elected as Director of the Bar Association of Erie County for a three-year term running from 2015-2018.  Ms. Midgley has also served the Bar Association as Chair of its Judiciary Committee, Chair of the Professional Ethics Committee, Chair of the Young Lawyers Committee, and was elected to the Bar Association of Erie County’s Nominating Committee.

Ms. Midgley was appointed by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, Fourth Judicial Department, as a member of the Grievance Committee of the Eighth Judicial District for two three-year terms running from 2015 to 2021. In June 2018, she was appointed to a five-year term of the Town of Orchard Park Ethics Board and reappointed in 2023 for a second five-year term. She is also a past member of the Board of Directors of the Dreams to Memories Foundation and the Buffalo Gay Men’s Chorus.

In 2019, she was honored to be named as one of Buffalo Business First’s 40 Under 40. The 40 Under 40 program recognizes 40 men and women under the age of 40 who are successful in their professional pursuits and who are heavily involved in the Buffalo community. In 2019 and 2020, she was selected to Buffalo’s “Legal Elite” as one of 120 of the region’s top attorneys, by the Buffalo Law Journal/Buffalo Business First.

In 2025, Ms. Midgley was selected to the Top 50 Upstate New York Super Lawyers and Top 25 Women Upstate New York Super Lawyers lists. She has consistently been selected to the Upstate New York Super Lawyers Rising Stars list and then the Upstate New York Super Lawyers list beginning in 2013, a distinction reserved for outstanding attorneys across the region. In addition, Ms. Midgley has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America^® since 2024 for Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants.

Ms. Midgley was honored to be part of the Harmonie Group’s Inaugural LEAD Program in 2024 – 2025. LEAD is a year-long program dedicated to the development, advancement, and promotion of diverse voices in the workforce, which involved a small network of industry executives and attorneys working together to empower and support each other in reaching their professional goals. 

Ms. Midgley is a 2006 graduate of the University at Buffalo School of Law where she was Managing Editor of the Buffalo Environmental Law Journal and President of the Buffalo Criminal Law Society, and President of the Herbert J. Wechsler Moot Court Board. She is licensed to practice in New York and the U.S. District Court, W.D.N.Y. 

Ms. Midgley graduated from the State University of New York at Geneseo in 2003.  She was honored to be asked by this alma mater to give the Jane Aschenbrenner Ryan ’74 Pre-Law Lecture in April 2020.