LFL Verified 2026Personal InjuryBuffalo, NY● Accepting new clients
★★★★★4.9 · 577 Google reviews1 office40 attorneysEnglish
Not statedFee model
FreeInitial consultation
24/7intake line
1Practice areas
About Richmond Vona
Richmond Vona, LLC is a personal injury firm with a single office in Buffalo.
The firm states that the first consultation is free; its intake line is open around the clock. It does not state a fee model on its public pages, so none is recorded here.
What this firm has earned Every one from a measured value, with the evidence behind it
LFL Verified 2026
Every eligibility gate this firm's state allows us to check has been checked and held: licensure, discipline, entity, website and footprint. Certification additionally requires a score of 70.
No public discipline
None of the 15 named attorneys carries a disciplinary status on the public register: no disbarment, suspension or disciplinary resignation. Those statuses persist, so the check reaches back years, but it would not show a censure or a suspension since lifted.
577 client reviews
Counted across 1 verified Google Business Profile listings, not collected by us and not solicited through us.
4.9 average over 577 reviews
A high rating is easy at low volume and hard to hold at this one. Pillar C scores it against the market rather than against five stars.
15 results published
Across 9 case types on the firm's own site. We read the page and counted what is on it; the amounts are the firm's and we have not confirmed them.
20 years average at the bar
Mean 19.9 years since admission across 15 of 40 named attorneys (longest 46, shortest 1) · NYS Attorney Registration database
LFL Certification Score Scored under Methodology v2.0 · rows tagged Registry, Observed or Ahrefs are measured; rows tagged Illustrative are sample values pending full verification
62out of 100
LFL Certification Score · Methodology v2.0Scored across 97 of the 100 points this firm's state lets anyone measure. Anything unscored counts neither for nor against the firm.
Verified
All 5 eligibility gates passed. Strongest pillar: C; most headroom in pillar E (4/15).
LFL Verified 2026
8 points to Certified
70 needed · A+B+C floor met (82% of the A, B and C points assessed)
Most headroom: D1 Website trust & experience: +5.5 available · A6 Roster verifiability: +5 available · E1 Free consult & fee transparency: +5 available
G1 Licensure15 of 40 named attorneys are currently registered and none carries an adverse status. 25 could not be told apart from namesakes in the register and are counted neither way
G2 DisciplineNone of the 15 named attorneys carries a disciplinary status on the public register: no disbarment, suspension or disciplinary resignation. Those statuses persist, so the check reaches back years, but it would not show a censure or a suspension since lifted.
G3 Entity & officeRICHMOND VONA, LLC is an active domestic professional service limited liability company registered since 2019-06-28, with 1 Google-verified location
G5 WebsiteSite has served over HTTPS, a working phone number published, 40 named attorneys published.
G6 Footprint577 public client reviews and 7 years since the entity was formed in 2019
AProfessional Standing
16/25
A2 ExperienceRegistryMean 19.9 years since admission across 15 of 40 named attorneys (longest 46, shortest 1) · NYS Attorney Registration database9 / 10
A6 Roster verifiabilityRegistry15 of 40 named attorneys matched to the New York register; bar numbers published on the bios4 / 9
A5 AccountabilityObservedmember of New York State Trial Lawyers Association, New York State Bar Association, American Association for Justice and 1 more · no professional liability cover disclosed, which is not scored here: plaintiff firms in this market do not publish it, and an absence shared by every firm separates none of them3 / 3
BPublished Outcomes
12/15
B1 Results publishedFirm-submitted15 results published on the firm's own site, counted from stated amounts4.5 / 6
B2 SpecificityFirm-submitted9 case types named; no court or county named, so no result can be looked up3 / 5
B3 Results disclosureFirm-submittedPrior-results disclaimer present, as the advertising rules require4 / 4
CClient Experience
19/20
C1 Authentic volumeObserved577 Google reviews · Google Business Profile via Places API. 1 listing, counts summed and rating weighted by count5 / 5
C2 Rating qualityObservedGoogle rating 4.9 over 577 reviews → Bayesian 4.89 (prior 4.82 weighted as 100 reviews, from 217 scored firms) · single platform, Google only5 / 6
C3 Review recencyGoogle5 of 5 sampled reviews are from the last 12 months (newest 2026-07-27) · a sample of five per business listing, not every review5 / 5
C5 Complaint shareGoogle0 of 5 sampled reviews rate 1 or 2 stars · a sample, so this is the shape of the complaints rather than a count of them4 / 4
DDigital Presence & Authority
10/25
D1 Website trust & experienceObservedCWV fail · no bar numbers on bios · no fee statement · privacy policy · no disclaimer · fresh content1.5 / 7
D3 Local presenceGoogle1 operational Google Business Profile listing with reviews · profile completeness, NAP consistency across citations and local-pack rank not yet measured (4 of 5 pts still available)1 / 5
Case results Only results verified against court records or documentation show amounts
What the firm publishes itself
Richmond Vona, LLC lists 15 case results on its own website, across 9 case types. The page carries its own disclaimer about past results. We have read the page and counted what is on it. We have not confirmed the amounts, so none are repeated here.
Results are specific to their facts and do not guarantee similar outcomes. Firms submit results through their claimed profile; only results we can substantiate are published with amounts.
Attorneys 15 attorneys · every licence checked against the New York attorney register · 25 more people are named by the firm without a role, so we do not call them attorneys
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Emily OczytkoAdmitted in NY
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Stephanie S. GelberAdmitted in NY
JG
John GerkenAdmitted in NY
EF
Elisa M. FornataroAdmitted in NY
MS
Michael T. SzczygielAdmitted in NY
KS
Kristopher A. SchwarzmuellerAdmitted in NY
TO
Timothy G. O’ConnellAdmitted in NY
PB
Peter F. BradyAdmitted in NY
RP
Rebecca PostekAdmitted in NY
DB
Danielle BrunoAdmitted in NY
KV
Keith R. VonaAdmitted in NY
BA
Brian J. AlterioAdmitted in NY
HG
Herschel GelberAdmitted in NY
JR
John E. RichmondAdmitted in NY
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Julia EvansAdmitted in NY
Also named by the firm
The firm lists these people among its team and prints no role beside the names, so we do not describe them as attorneys.
Libby Kamieniarz
Morgan Paxon
Serena Gray
Henry Alaimo
Sarah Berlinger
Kiarra Beshaw
Madeline Campbell
Jessica Dyson
Bradley Gelber
Justine Gerace
Rachel Kilger
Adora O’Malley
Jacqueline Pope
Katrina Schmitt-Ruof
Liesl Souter
Dawn Vona
Lizzy DePalma
Andrea Gladhill
Samantha Mallare
Rita Kraft
Daniel Daumen
Evan Flynn
Mark Dellas
Samantha Martz
Michelle Woedy
Client reviews
4.9
★★★★★
Based on 577 Google reviews · Google Business Profile via Places API. 1 listing, counts summed and rating weighted by count · Quotes below are testimonials published by the firm
Offices 1 location · main office: Richmond Vona Injury Lawyers
Richmond Vona Injury Lawyers192 Seneca St Ste 200, Buffalo, NY 14204, USA
