Practice Areas
The firm’s attorneys are passionate about fighting for substantial civil rights claims and criminal defense clients who face significant charges, or have been wrongfully convicted. The types of cases they typically handle include:
Criminal investigations and trials
Pre-indictment, pretrial, and trial criminal defense representation in the state and federal courts, including:
- General white-collar crime
- Business fraud
- Mortgage fraud
- Immigration fraud
- Money laundering
- Mail Fraud and Wire Fraud
- Police, political, and official corruption
- Homicides and other violent crimes
- Racketeering
- Narcotics possession, distribution, and conspiracy
- Sex offenses
- Internet-Related Offenses
Criminal appeals and collateral attacks
Direct appeals of criminal convictions in the State and Federal appellate courts 440 motions, coram nobis, and federal habeas corpus petitions for:
- Ineffective assistance of trial or appellate counsel
- Prosecutorial misconduct, including Brady and Rosario violations
- Newly-discovered evidence of innocence
- Other constitutional, evidentiary, and procedural violations
Civil rights general civil litigation
Civil damage claims against individuals and municipal, state and federal governments and officials, including:
- False arrest
- False imprisonment
- Malicious prosecution
- Unjust convictions
- Violations of due process and equal protection
- Police misconduct
- Excessive use of force
- Monell claims (municipal liability)
- Bivens claims (federal officials’ individual liability)
- State Court of Claims actions against New York State
General civil litigation, including:
- Prosecution and defense of personal injury lawsuits
- Commercial, corporate, and real estate litigation
