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AIELLO & CANNICK was founded in 1991. The founding partners attended Fordham University School of Law together and after eight year respective stints in the Bronx, Manhattan and Queens County District Attorney Offices, they entered private practice by first opening an office in Maspeth, Queens and two years later at 233 Broadway in the Woolworth Building in downtown Manhattan.
From its inception, the firm has been involved in all aspects of Federal and State and criminal defense.
Early on, the firm handled many high-profile criminal cases including representation of Peter Guagenti, the driver in the Amy Fisher case in Nassau County; Patrick Bannon who shot and killed three people including an off-duty housing police officer outside a nightclub on Bell Boulevard in Bayside, Queens in 1993; Julio Rivera who was charged with others in the abduction of Harvey Weinstein, the Tuxedo King of Queens County in 1995; William Tager who was charged with shooting a stage hand outside the NBC Today show studio in 1995. The firm also represented one of the defendants charged in the assault of Shane Daniels outside Club Marakash in Westhampton Beach. Most recently one of the partners represented a Honduran immigrant Dennis Salvador Alvarez Hernandez in Westchester County’s first death penalty prosecution. After a nine month trial, the jury spared Mr. Alvarez his life.
Although the firm focused primarily on criminal defense in the early years, by the late 1990’s the firm began providing a broader range of legal services in real estate, education and labor law as well as civil rights and constitutional claims.
In 1997 the firm was selected as General Counsel to represent the Mount Vernon City School District. During this period of growth, the firm also established Of-Counsel relationships with expert lawyers in the field of personal injury to handle accident cases and matrimonial and family law attorneys to handle divorce, separation and child custody issues. Today the firm maintains an excellent reputation for providing legal services in a number of areas and prides itself on having a first rate legal support system where clients receive the highest levels of personal service.
In the mid-1990’s, the firm, under the direction of Devereaux L. Cannick expanded the litigation practice to include civil rights and 1983 constitutional claims involving “police brutality”. In one of his first civil court jury trials, Mr. Cannick won a $3.25 million dollar verdict for his client who claimed a police officer beat him up. The case was reported in the Daily News on April 14th, 2000 and covered on the local television stations. It was one of the largest jury verdicts of its kind. This significant jury verdict was obtained despite an investigation by the Civilian Complaint Review Board which found our client’s claim unsubstantiated.
A short time later, Mr. Cannick was retained to represent Saikou Diallo, the father of Amadou Diallo who was shot 41 times by police officers on February 4th, 1999. Although the four police officers were ultimately acquitted of all charges, Mr. Cannick successfully sued the City of New York and received the largest wrongful death settlement of its kind against the City of New York at that time. He also had the distinction of working with Johnny Cochran who represented Amadou Diallo’s mother.
The firm’s attorneys are licensed to practice law in all courts in the State of New York, New Jersey, District of Columbia, Connecticut, the Federal Courts in the Eastern, Southern and Northern Districts of New York as well as the Second and Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court.
Aiello & Cannick attorneys possess extensive business as well as legal experience. Firm members and Of Counsel attorneys have been employed in management and senior level staff positions at Fortune 500 companies. The firm’s education, business and legal backgrounds enable it to quickly adapt to new situations and to view a problem from multiple perspectives. The attorney’s business background causes them to be solution-oriented and their financial experience fosters sensitivity to the client’s cost constraints and objectives. Aiello & Cannick is a diverse and talented team dedicated to the delivery of high quality, personalized and cost effective legal services to individual as well as institutional clients.
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