William F. Savino

CONTACT INFORMATION

The Avant Office
200 Delaware Avenue
Suite 1200
Buffalo, NY 14202
Phone: 716.858.3790
email: wsavino@damonmorey.com

CONCENTRATIONS

  • Business Litigation
  • Bankruptcy/Reorganization
  • Construction
  • Corporate Governance Litigation
  • Accounting Malpractice
  • Uniform Commercial Code

EDUCATION

  • University of Rochester - BA, with high distinction, 1971
  • State University of New York at Buffalo Law School - JD, cum laude, 1975

Biography

William F. Savino is a Senior Partner and the Chair of the Business Litigation and Insolvency Department at Damon Morey LLP. His responsibilities include matters involving business litigation (including construction, corporate and partnership dissolution, accounting malpractice, and Uniform Commercial Code matters) and insolvency (both debtor and creditor) with an emphasis on reorganizations.

Mr. Savino is admitted to practice in New York (including all four districts of its federal courts) and Ohio as well as the Second and Eleventh Circuit Courts.

An instructor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Mr. Savino teaches Business Law for the School of Management and Commercial Litigation for the School of Law. A frequent lecturer, he has recently made presentations for the NYS Bar Association, Bar Association of Erie County, Erie Institute of Law, NYS Society of Certified Public Accountants, the American Bankruptcy Institute as well as for numerous continuing education organizations. Mr. Savino was chosen to present a demonstration eliciting direct testimony from an expert for the NYS Bar Association in November of 2010.

In addition to speaking engagements, Mr. Savino has written extensively on the subjects with which he is involved. In law school, he authored a book review for the Buffalo Law Review on Copyright, Patent, Trademark and Related State Doctrines by Paul Goldstein. From 2004 through 2008, he co-authored the Commercial Law Section of the Syracuse Law Review, an annual survey of the legal developments in New York State Law, and a quarterly commercial litigation related column for the Buffalo Law Journal. In 2001, he co-authored an article on the Principle of "Uniform Construction" for West's UCC Bulletin.

In 2012, Mr. Savino was elected to the Bar Association of Erie County's Board of Directors and also served three years as the chairperson of its Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Committee.  For a second year, Mr. Savino earned the designation as a Top 10 Upstate New York Attorney and was ranked third in 2012 by Super Lawyers magazine. He was also named for a fifth time to the Top 50 Upstate New York Attorneys. He was also selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2013 (Copyright 2012 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.) in the fields of Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Commercial Litigation, Litigation - Bankruptcy, and Litigation - Construction. He was first selected for this distinction in 2007. Additionally, he has been listed as one of Business First of Buffalo's Who's Who in Law” List for the past seven years.

Bill is active in various charitable and civic organizations. He is a past director of the Western New York Jazz Society. He is also the past nationwide president of the University at Buffalo Law Alumni Association and a member of the Steering Committee for the University of Rochester's WNY Alumni Association. In September 2011, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Park Country Club.