Judge Jeffrey E. Marion has recently been appointed to the Bench by the Amherst Town Board.

A St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute alumnus, Judge Marion got hi bachelor’s degree from SUNY College at Geneseo. He then went on to get his law degree from Ohio Northern University College of Law. Judge Marion has been admitted to practice in the State of New York since 1995.

After starting his career as an associate at Shaw & Shaw in Hamburg, Judge Marion opened his own firm in 2003. He represented injured and disabled persons. It was at that time that he noticed that disabled veterans were routinely getting denied their service-connected disability benefits. For nearly twenty years, The Law Offices of Jeffrey E. Marion has been a leader in the fight for disabled veterans who have been denied their service-connected disability benefits. Additionally, Marion’s law office has fought for our Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who sustained permanent hearing damage as a result of their use of unsafe earplugs manufactured by 3M. Judge Marion filed a number of cases that were part of a multi-billion settlement against 3M.

From 2016-2020, Judge Marion was a Deputy Town Attorney for the Town of Amherst. During that time, he served as the Town Prosecutor, handling thousands of cases in that court. Also, while working for the Town of Amherst, Judge Marion filed the first lawsuit by a town in New York State against the manufacturers, distributors, and retailers of opioid pain medication. The settlements in that case are continuing, and have returned nearly half a million dollars to the taxpayers. Currently, Judge Marion
serves as the Co-Chair of the American Association for Justice’s (AAJ) Opioids Litigation Group, the largest group of Plaintiffs’ lawyers in the United States.

Judge Marion is very active as a lecturer in numerous seminars, including at AAJ’s Depositions College. His law office continues to represent veterans and other persons who suffer catastrophic injuries in crashes, falls, or from unsafe products.