Theresa E. Quinn

1100 Rand Building
14 Lafayette Square
Buffalo, NY 14203

tquinn@magavern.com Phone (716) 856-3500  Fax (716) 856-3390  

Practice Areas:  Appellate Practice, Employment Law, Intellectual Property, Litigation

Theresa E. Quinn is an associate practicing in the areas of negligence, employment and housing litigation, appeals, entertainment law and contracts, and copyright issues. She is admitted to practice before all New York State Courts, as well as the United States District Court for the Western District of New York.

An accomplished professional musician, she attended Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, and the State University of New York at Buffalo where she studied piano performance and voice. She graduated from Brooklyn Law School and practiced law in New York City for several years before returning to Buffalo. She has worked as a staff songwriter for a publishing company in Nashville, Tennessee and now serves as music director and organist for Lafayette Presbyterian Church in the Elmwood Village area of Buffalo. Ms. Quinn currently teaches a Musical Theatre repertory class for the Buffalo State College Theatre program. She can be regularly heard performing as pianist and music director for many of Buffalo's best professional musical theatre companies.

Ms. Quinn is proud to have worked for Elizabeth Schneider, who authored "Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking," published by Yale Press and for which Ms. Quinn contributed as a researcher. Ms. Quinn contributed to an Amicus Curiae in the seminal domestic violence case, Nussbaum v. Steinberg.

Ms. Quinn is a member of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, the American Association for Justice, and the New York State Bar Association. She also is a member of the Gordon Highlanders, Buffalo's oldest pipe regiment, and the Buffalo Musicians' Union, Local 92 AFM (American Federation of Musicians).