Law Office of Marc Fernich

From an elite education, a marquee apprenticeship and successfully defending a famed mob prince – to a U.S. Supreme Court argument, adjunct law professorships and a string of professional accolades – Fernich’s accomplished resume, exacting standards and will to win promise aggressive and effective representation in any predicament clients face.

A modern criminal defense practice and full service law firm prizing substance over style and quality over quantity. Areas of expertise:

Criminal Appeals and Motions

Trials

Civil Litigation

Law Office of Marc Fernich

800 Third Avenue, Floor 20
New York, NY 10022
212.446.2346
maf@fernichlaw.com

Recent Results See more »

Federal District Court

U.S. v. Tantillo, No. 23 CR 443 (FB) (E.D.N.Y. Nov. 21, 2023)
Reversed pretrial detention order and won release on bail for suspected gangster accused of violent extortions, assaults and arsons.

Federal Appeals Court

Dhinsa v. Krueger, 917 F.3d 70 (2d Cir. 2019)
Established that mandatory $100 special assessment confers standing under Article III of the Constitution to attack concurrent convictions and sentences in federal collateral proceedings.

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Testimonials

Dealt federal prosecutors a “startling setback”

– The New York Times

Produced a “stunning” courtroom upset

– New York Post

Fernich’s arguments “are a pleasure to read and listen to, very articulate”

– Hon. Cathy Seibel, White Plains Federal Judge

Prepared “extremely well done and well presented” written “submissions”

– Hon. Katherine B. Forrest, Manhattan Federal Judge

Fernich’s work “exemplif[ed]” the “best of the profession, what we judges live for, which is to see the lawyers doing their best to clarify the issues for the Court.”

– Hon. Dora L. Irizarry, Brooklyn Federal Judge

Defendant “could not have had more learned counsel”

– Hon. Colleen McMahon, Manhattan Federal Judge

“I’ve been very favorably impressed by all of [your] work.”

– Hon. Mary L. Cooper, Trenton Federal Judge

Wrote a “superlative” brief

– Hon. Joseph D. McGuire, New York Supreme Court Justice

“Prominent New York criminal-defense lawyer”

– The Daily Beast

“[T]op appeals expert”

– Gang Land News

Litigated one of the U.S. Supreme Court’s “most important [recent] decisions,” giving “defense counsel” fertile “new material”

– Bloomberg BNA Criminal Law Reporter/New York Law Journal

Law Office of Marc Fernich, New York, NY, 1998- Principal

Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, White Plains, NY, 2016-
Adjunct Professor, Advanced Appellate Advocacy

Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, NY, 2008-
Adjunct Associate Professor, Appellate Advocacy

Richard French Live (Regional Network News/Verizon FiOS1), Rye Brook,
NY, 2012-17
Legal Analyst

Judd Burstein, P.C./Law Offices of Judd Burstein/Burstein & Fass LLP, New York, NY, 1993-97
Criminal and Civil Litigation Associate

Liddle, O’Connor, Finkelstein & Robinson, New York, NY, 1990-92
Summer and Full-Time Civil Litigation Associate

Hon. David F. Jordan, U.S. Magistrate Judge, Eastern District of New York, Hauppauge, NY, 1989
Judicial Intern

Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, Philadelphia, PA, 1986-88
Domestic Violence Intern

New York; Massachusetts; U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. appeals courts – Second, Third, Fourth, Ninth, Eleventh circuits; U.S. district courts – Southern and Eastern New York, Vermont

Defense Lawyer of the Year, ganglandnews.com – 2017

Criminal Lawyer of the Year, Institute of Jewish Humanities – 2014

Director and Amicus Curiae (friend of court) Committee Co-Chair, New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers – 2012-
New York’s largest criminal bar group

New York-Metro Area Super Lawyer – 2009-

Martindale-Hubbell “AV” Preeminent Rating

Avvo Rated 10 out of 10

Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, IL – JD, 1991

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA – BA English Cum Laude, 1988

Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, CT – Cum Laude, 1983

Award Winning Student Journalist

Columbia University Scholastic Press Association, National College Gold Circle Award – Best News Feature/Interpretive Profile, “Reinterpreting King’s Vision,” 1989

The Daily Pennsylvanian/34th Street magazine – Columnist of the Year, 1987-88; Writer of the Year, 1987-88