D'Orazio Peterson LLP

You could say that D'Orazio Peterson began at Albany Law School in the early 2000's. That's when Scott (studying for the Bar Exam) met Giovanna (a 1st year law student). Flash forward a few years and we were married and building our individual legal careers with larger law firms, for the most part defending the interests of large institutions. The easy path would have been to stay with our respective law firms, and continue working for the powerful.

Of course, that's not what happened.

Eventually, each of us came to the realization that we wanted more from our legal careers. To us, being a lawyer is not just a job, it is a part of who we are, and we each wanted to do more with that than just help businesses fight over money or defend questionable employment or business decisions.

We realized that we shared a desire to help people stand up for themselves. To help them fight back when they are treated unfairly. To try and hold the powerful accountable.

So, eventually, D'Orazio Peterson was (formally) born. And at the time of its formation, we decided that we would limit the firm's practice to primarily representing people against the powerful. To only represent clients who were victims of serious personal injuries and malpractice, or who were treated illegally in their employment with a large company.