Siegle & Sims, LLP

Eric W. Siegle received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1990 and a Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School in 1993. Mr. Siegle served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Queens County District Attorney’s Office and Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor and served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney. These appointments have provided Mr. Siegle a solid foundation in state and federal criminal law, from the perspective of a prosecutor, which has enabled him to expertly represent clients in various types of criminal matters. After years of honing his trial and appellate skills while working for the state and federal government, Mr. Siegle became an associate at the firm of Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker. There he skillfully handled numerous important cases involving federal civil rights, professional liability, commercial litigation, and personal injury matters.

Over the years, Mr. Siegle has successfully represented individuals and corporations charged with a myriad of federal and state crimes, including various complex conspiracies to commit securities fraud, mail fraud, health care fraud, insurance fraud, wire fraud, tax fraud, money laundering, identity fraud, bank fraud and narcotics distribution. Mr. Siegle has tried numerous cases as a defense attorney and former prosecutor and is proud to boast that he has never lost a criminal case that resulted in a verdict. Mr. Siegle is keenly aware of which cases to fight and which to resolve through a plea bargain or settlement and uses his cunning insight to advise clients of what strategy to pursue to ensure the most favorable outcomes.

In addition, to his stellar criminal trial record, Mr. Siegle is adept in civil litigation as well. Over the past 20 years he has represented numerous individuals and obtained substantial monetary awards for people who have been injured at the hands of others, including, but not limited to the New York City Police Department, the City of New York, and other municipalities, whether through false arrest and imprisonment, malicious prosecution, assault, battery, excessive force, Dram Shop actions, automobile accidents, slip/trip and fall incidents, and many other causes of liability. Through his aggressive style and willingness to try every case to verdict, over the past 20 years, Mr. Siegle has obtained millions of dollars for his clients to compensate them for their losses and injuries.