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Melissa Rivers to file multimillion-dollar wrongful death lawsuit

​Joan Rivers‘ daughter has selected a powerhouse Manhattan ​law ​firm ​and will file a multimillion-dollar medical malpractice and wrongful death lawsuit against the endoscopy clinic where ​the legendary comedian lapsed into a coma ​during a routine throat procedure, sources told The Post. ​The doctors involved in the procedure will also be named, sources said.​

​Melissa Rivers is finalizing paperwork with the Financial District firm Gair, Gair, Conason, Steigman, Mackauf, Bloom & Rubinowitz, the sources said.

The boutique firm, founded in 1919 making it one of the oldest in the city, is highly selective about its caseload and has a reputation for meticulous trial prep.

​A rep for Gair declined to comment.

Medical malpractice lawyer Robert Vilensky, who is not involved in the​ pending Rivers litigation​, said he expects Gair to charge the Yorkville Endoscopy clinic and all the doctors involved in treating Joan with not properly monitoring her Propofol, a sedative administered before the procedure. ​It is the same potent drug that Michael Jackson ​overdosed on.

​Rivers’ official cause of death is “anoxic encephalopathy due to hypoxic arrest during laryngoscopy and upper gastrointestinal endoscopy with propofol sedation.”

The 16-lawyer firm first needs to obtain Joan’s medical records before filing a case in Manhattan Supreme Court.

Joan’s will also needs to be be submitted to court and an executor appointed by a judge before the suit commences.

Vilensky told The Post that Gair’s firm, which represented the family of police shooting victim Amadou Diallo, has a reputation for being “low key” but also “very, very meticulous and very, very smart.”

They won $3 million for the Diallo family and recen​​tly scored a whopping $27.5 million verdict for a New York City woman who was run over by an MTA bus.

Still Vilensky said malpractice suits are tough to win because all medical procedures carry risks.

The legendary funny​woman died on Sept. 4 after going into cardiac arrest at the clinic on Aug. 28. She was 81.