Aurelian Law PLLC

Unlike large law firms that seek to handle clients' day-to-day problems, Aurelian guides clients through the problems they face on their worst days. And, unlike its New York City-based peers, the firm is headquartered in Western New York, offering grounded perspective and value.

Aurelian hailed from the provinces, not from Rome, but he saved Rome and its Empire from collapse during the Crisis of the Third Century. He was one of history’s greatest generals and crisis managers.

The Aurelian team is led by a former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and a lawyer trained at Cadwalader, Wickersham, & Taft LLP and WilmerHale. Aurelian offers clients insights gained from extensive work on all sides of investigations to deliver critical and practical advice, ranging from purely legal interests to related financial, reputational, and policy-based interests. Its lawyers are experienced in boardrooms and courtrooms alike. As advisors, investigators, and litigators, the team crafts advice informed by litigation and investigation risks, and it crafts litigation and defense strategies informed by organizational priorities.

Aurelian serves clients responding to crises, litigating high stakes matters, and pursuing the public interest. Its crisis response work includes independent investigations, internal investigations, and white-collar defense, representing organizations exposed to criminal, regulatory, and civil liabilities with federal and state agencies.The firm litigates against federal and state government agencies, and represents healthcare entities in complex healthcare disputes, False Claims Act litigants, and clients with critical appeals.Aurelian seeks to advance the public interest through pro bono representation, particularly in appeals, as well as the representation of class action and multi-party plaintiffs.

Aurelian was founded in 2024, and most of its work has remained confidential, as its clients strongly prefer. The firm has advised public and private organizations, nonprofits, and governments. Aurelian often advises and defends professionals, including healthcare organizations, law firms, and audit firms. Its attorneys have obtained declinations from the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney’s Offices, the Office of the New York State Attorney General (including its Medicaid Fraud Control Unit), and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for organizations, executives, and healthcare professionals in various matters, including criminal, securities fraud, civil fraud, and False Claims Act investigations. And the firm has likewise negotiated settlements in investigated matters and, frequently, through self-disclosures following internal or independent investigations.

In 2024, the firm resolved an SEC litigation on behalf of the City of Rochester on favorable terms that appeared to be unprecedented--with no monetary payment and no monitor. In 2025, the firm served as appellate counsel for a statewide certified class against the State of New York, securing from the U.S Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit an injunction against unconstitutional state action. The firm has gone head-to-head with the largest firms in the country.

The firm's leadership has been quoted not only in legal industry periodicals, but also by the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Reuters, and even the U.S. Department of Justice itself.

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