About Michael J
Michael J Stachowski trained in Buffalo and abroad earlier than beginning a long profession that has moved between company, courtroom and municipal work. He earned a B.A. from Canisius College in 1970, then took his law degree at the State University of New York at Buffalo, finishing a J.D. in 1973. He later studied worldwide business law and earned a certificate from the Hague Institute of International Law in 1976.
His early professional steps were varied. In 1973 he worked for Sportservice Corporation, now a part of Delaware North, in a legal ability. Two years later he served as a confidential clerk within the New York courtroom system. In 1978 he served as counsel to Dennis T. Gorski during Gorski’s time in the New York State Assembly. Those roles put him close to the mechanics of government and public regulation and set a throughline for later municipal work.
In 1975 he based Michael J Stachowski PC and has carried that company call thru decades of practice. In 1986 he took on duties as legal proceedings deputy and city prosecutor for the Town of Cheektowaga. Later, in 1999, he served as city lawyer for Cheektowaga, advising local officers and representing the municipality on legal issues. The series of roles across the 1970s, 1980s and Nineteen Nineties reflects a tradition that has moved between legal proceedings, advisory work and public-sector representation.
Professionally he maintains lengthy-status membership within the Erie County Bar Association, becoming a member of in 1974, and belongs to the American Bar Association, the place his club dates to 1990. He is also indexed in Lawyers of Distinction since 2018 and has maintained memberships in nearby expert organizations constantly because the mid-1970s. He is licensed to practice in New York and within the courts of the Second Circuit.
Colleagues and clients describe a practitioner who knows municipal procedures and court practice. He has combined early company knowledge with years of municipal legal proceedings and prosecution. That stability has informed his approach to advising nearby governments, handling civil disputes and prosecuting town-degree things when required.
He works from his firm, Michael J Stachowski PC, and continues to take municipal and civil things, representing local authorities entities and private clients in state and federal hearings. He presently practices through Michael J Stachowski PC, handling local government law, local government representation and civil litigation.
