Hoffman & Pollok LLP

Jeffrey C. Hoffman

Jeff is a graduate of New York University Law School and a former Assistant District Attorney of the New York County District Attorney's office from 1967 through 1971. From that time until the present, he has been practicing criminal defense work. He has tried scores of federal and state criminal cases as a defense lawyer. Over the years, he has represented such politically sensitive cases of public note, such as Congressman Mario Biaggi from New York; Lester Shafran, former Commissioner of the Parking Violations Bureau of the City of New York; the Lyndon LaRouche (Presidential Candidate) Organization; Steve Hoffenberg, the former CEO of Towers Financial Corp., and dozens of attorneys and other professionals. He has also participated in the defense of numerous securities fraud prosecutions and arbitrations.

Jeff has appeared at the University of Missouri Law School as a Guest Lecturer and lectured on Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act and CLE lectures. He has lectured judicial law clerks for the federal district courts of New Jersey on courtroom trial tactics as well as at the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers ("NACDL") and various local Bar Associations in New York and New Jersey.
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John L. Pollok

John has practiced law in New York, primarily in the Federal Courts over the last 40 years, trying numerous criminal cases and arguing over 200 appeals in various Federal Circuit Courts and State Appellate Courts. He has been admitted in the United States Supreme Court, United States Court of Appeals for the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits. John received his B.A. from Syracuse University and his L.L.B. from Fordham University. He is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, where he has served on the Criminal Advocacy, Criminal Law and Criminal Courts Committee, where he served as Chair from 2003 to 2006. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the New York Counsel of Defense Lawyers and was a member of the New York City Bar Association's Task Force of the Reform of the Town Justice Court's.

His Teaching and Lecture Credits include the Trial Advocacy Program at the Faculty of Cardozo Law School; He has also appeared as a guest lecturer at Fordham University School of Law; Yale University School of Law, and was a participating lecturer in the Advanced Criminal Law Seminar program (Aspen, Co.).
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Susan C. Wolfe

Susan joined Hoffman & Pollok as an associate in 1984 and became a partner in 1992. Dedicated to the representation of individuals faced with the crisis of criminal prosecution, she understands that no other area of law involves more important questions of individual liberty, and that few other kinds of cases take the same toll on the personal, professional and emotional lives of clients. Equally drawn to the academic and intellectual side of the law, she has written and argued numerous appeals raising novel issues and always bringing home to the judges the human element of the case.

A representative sample of her clients include: stock brokers and broker-dealers charged with violating arcane aspects of the federal securities laws; a doctor under Department of Health investigation for professional misconduct; a doctor charged with distributing medically unnecessary pain medications; mortgage brokers charged with mortgage fraud; an internet ISP employee charged with violating the federal anti-spam act; a cosmetic surgery practice charged with insurance fraud, as well as many lawyers and other professionals charged with committing fraud in the practice of their professions.

Susan was admitted to the Bar in New York in 1985. She is also admitted to practice in the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Southern and Northern Districts of New York and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She graduated from Cornell University as a College Scholar, with distinction, in 1981, and from Boston University School of Law in 1984. She has taught trial skills for the Intensive Trial Advocacy Program at Cardozo School of Law and written Practice Commentaries for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy. She is a Member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, (former member of the Committee on Legal Issues Pertaining to Animals), and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
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William A. Rome

William concentrates his practice in general commercial litigation and has litigated claims in a wide variety of commercial disputes involving employment contracts, notes, bonds, guarantees, licenses, letters of credit, insurance contracts, indemnification agreements, shareholder and partnership agreements and professional liability. He has substantial experience in defending and prosecuting claims in various arbitration forums, including the AAA, NYSE and NASD (now FINRA) and has tried cases on behalf of both claimants and respondents in the securities area. He also serves as a FINRA arbitrator. He represents individuals and media entities in the area of publication torts and related intellectual property claims, and has argued numerous times in the appellate courts, including the New York Court of Appeals.

From 1985 to 1995, as an associate at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan in its New York Office, he acquired experience as a civil litigator in the areas of products liability and insurance defense, copyright and trademark, including licensing and software disputes, the First Amendment and publication torts, commercial litigation involving various types of business entities, securities and RICO. He developed and participated in nationwide strategies and litigation in the pharmaceutical and automotive industry and had first chair experience in preparing and trying cases, defended and/or took in excess of 100 depositions and argued various appeals.

He is admitted to practice in the state of Massachusetts and New York, the Second, Sixth and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
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Lisa Rosenthal

Lisa, a native of Queens, New York was admitted to the bar of New York in 1987 and the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York in 1990. She was later admitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Supreme Court of the United States. Lisa was born in Queens, New York, January 8, 1960; admitted to bar, 1987, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 1990, U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. She attended Sarah Lawrence College (A.B., 1981); Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University (J.D., 1986). Her areas of practice include Securities Litigation; Civil Litigation; Criminal Law; Trial Practice; Appellate Practice; Securities; Arbitration.
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Diane M. Fischer

Diane joined Hoffman & Pollok in September of 2006 after receiving her law degree from Brooklyn Law School. Ms. Fischer studied a premedical curriculum at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. She is admitted to practice in New York State (2007) and the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York (2007). She is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
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