Brian D. Waller

Mr. Waller is a partner of the firm. He is an experienced litigator and trial attorney who joined the firm in 2000. His primary areas of practice are criminal defense and civil litigation in federal and state courts. Specifically, Mr. Waller counsels and defends individuals and corporations under investigation or prosecution for federal crimes such as racketeering, securities fraud, bribery, corruption of government officials, insurance fraud, environmental offenses, bank fraud, computer crimes and mail fraud. He also represents clients in state courts charged with a variety of offenses including narcotics sales, Medicaid/Medicare fraud, robbery, assault, and homicide. Mr. Waller also defends corporations and individuals in commercial civil matters and actions involving civil rights violations, contract disputes, wrongful death, environmental litigation, professional malpractice and personal injury. Mr. Waller has also handled numerous criminal and civil appellate matters.

Mr. Waller served as an Assistant District Attorney in Bronx County, New York, from 1993 to 1998 where he primarily prosecuted violent felony offenses and conducted numerous jury trials and complex criminal investigations. Subsequently, Mr. Waller was an associate at the law firm of Ohrenstein & Brown, LLP, where he practiced as a civil litigator. In that capacity, Mr. Waller litigated and tried a wide variety of civil matters in the areas of products liability, professional malpractice, municipal liability, negligence, commercial disputes, subrogation and construction accidents.

Mr. Waller received a B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1990 and a J.D. from Hofstra University School of Law in 1993. He is admitted to practice in New York State Supreme Court and United States District Court for the Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of New York. He has also handled various federal matters in the states of New Jersey and Florida.

Mr. Waller is a member of the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the American Bar Association and the Bar Association for the City of New York, where he has served on the Committee for Criminal Advocacy. Mr. Waller is a Co-Chairman and panelist of the annual continuing legal education program Privileges in Civil and Criminal Litigation and has served on the faculty for the annual seminar Taking and Defending Depositions, both for the Bar Association for the City of New York. He has lectured on such topics as the The Crime Fraud Exception to the Attorney-Client Privilege and The Tripartite Relationship in Insurance Defense Law. Mr. Waller has appeared on NBC news and is a regular expert legal commentator on Court TV.