Born and raised in New York City, Tom Tormey is a trial lawyer and he has been trying all types of cases in the New York and Federal Courts for over forty years. After graduating from St. John’s University Law School, he began his career in 1978 as an Assistant District Attorney in the Office of the Manhattan District Attorney, Robert M. Morgenthau. Under Mr. Morgenthau, Mr. Tormey started out as an Assistant District Attorney in a Trial Bureau. Eventually he worked his way up to become the Bureau Chief of the elite Special Investigations Bureau under the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York, the now United States District Court Judge, Sterling Johnson, Jr.In 1990, Tom Tormey left public service and opened his own law practice, concentrating on complex criminal cases and serious personal injury cases. Initially several national insurance companies and large oil companies retained Mr. Tormey to serve as Trial Counsel to their companies. Eventually, after successfully defending many of these clients, Mr. Tormey decided to take on cases of the people who needed help; people charged with serious crimes and people who were injured by the negligence of others and who needed help in recovering their rightful awards. Since then, many other lawyers and law firms have hired Mr. Tormey to try their personal injury, criminal and construction cases for them.These lawyers and clients trusted their most serious matters to Mr. Tormey. If your have such a case, call Mr. Tormey and discuss it with him. Maybe Mr. Tormey is the lawyer for you.Specialties:Trial LawyerCriminal Defense AttorneyWhite Collar Criminal Defense AttorneyWaterfront Commission CasesConstruction Litigation AttorneySerious Personal Injury Litigation Attorney