About Us

Commitment to Clients

Since opening in 2022, we have fought for hundreds of clients accused of serious crimes in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens courthouses. Many of our clients were able to obtain reduced charges, conditional pleas which could be vacated on successful completion of programming, or even outright dismissal following a period of good behavior. This comes as a result of tough negotiations with the prosecutors and advocacy before judges. No case is one-sized fits all, and no one is as bad as their worst day. Here are a few examples:

• Successfully reduced charges for client charged with felony assault on a police officer. Client had prior violent felony conviction mandating mandatory prison sentence. Plea bargain resulted in misdemeanor conviction and minimal community service.
• All charges dismissed and sealed in case where client charged with felony assault on an elderly family member. Prior to hiring the firm, Client racked up nearly $10,000 in hotel bills complying with order of protection that kept him out of the family home. His prior lawyer could have resolved this by promptly demanding a hearing on the restraining order, which we did successfully, The prosecutor reduced the order, allowing the client to return home.
• Charges related to on-camera assault of a restaurant waiter dismissed and sealed after client’s completion of anger management therapy and minimal community service.
• Client visiting NY from out-of-state charged with felony unlicensed gun possession and faced mandatory prison term. Successfully convinced prosecutor to reduce charges to misdemeanor and client received sentence of probation.
• Obtained an adjournment for dismissal for a non-U.S. Citizen client charged with Endangering the Welfare of a Child and Assault after striking her 9 year-old child in the face, causing bleeding and bruising. Limited the order of protection so client could regain custody of child taken by child protective services.
• Client charged with on-video assault and choking of an elderly Postal Worker received sentence of minimal community service.

Burdens of Proof

As a prosecutor, I built complex cases using wiretapping, search warrants, undercover agents, bank records, and confidential informants. I learned how law enforcement builds these cases. Charges included narcotics sale, health care fraud, securities fraud, reckless endangerment, and manslaughter. I eventually focused on prosecuting physicians accused of bad-faith prescribing of controlled substances, and later, on prosecuting financial frauds. In each of these cases, the defendants faced significant consequences. The lucky ones had skilled and creative counsel.

• “Doctors Charged in Drug Scheme at Clinic Controlled by Traffickers, Authorities Say,” New York Times, Feb. 5, 2014.
• “New York City doctor charged with manslaughter in overdose deaths,” ABC 7 NY, June 7, 2018.
• “Queens pill mill doc linked to three fatal overdoses pleads guilty to manslaughter,” NY Daily News, June 18, 2019.
• “Manhattan doctor who sold oxycodone prescriptions at $125 a pop sentenced to five years behind bars,” NY Daily News, June 17, 2015.
• “Elderly doctor, wife sentenced to prison for running $80M ‘pill mill,’” New York Post, Sept. 6, 2018.
• “Queens ex-doctor stockpiled 1.5M amphetamine pills and prescribed the drugs to patient who died using them,” NY Daily News, Aug. 17, 2016.
• “Prescription Fraud Charges for Prominent Manhattan Dermatologist,” New York Times, July 9, 2014.
• “Lawyer for Duane Reade Busted for Stealing 13,000 Percocet Pills with Pilfered Prescription Forms,” NY Daily News, June 21, 2012.
• “SA entrepreneur Eran Eyal convicted in US over fraudulent Shopin ICO, Springleap startup,” Ventureburn, Dec. 13, 2019.
• “Alleged Shopin ICO Fraudster Pays $450K Fine in Ether,” Coindesk, June 3, 2020.
• “Forest Hills stockbroker convicted for bogus currency trading scheme,” Queens Eagle, Nov. 22, 2019.

But despite what a headline or press release would lead you to think, these weren’t easy cases. They all had weak points. If you’re facing criminal charges, you need an experienced advocate who will find the soft spots in the arsenal of evidence with which the government walks into that court room. Prosecutors routinely overcharge. Police officers take shortcuts, neglect their duties, and sometimes outright lie. Witnesses rarely tell the whole story. Find the weak point in your case.