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Mr. Stuart David Meissner

Mr. Stuart David Meissner

Experienced Former Prosecutor - We Keep Your Record Clean! All Courts in Rockland and Westchester NY

Experience: 36 years
Language(s): English

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About Stuart

Mr. Meissner, as an experienced criminal defense attorney with a central office located in Nyack, Rockland County New York. Mr. Meissner has extensive experience defending individuals in both minor and significant criminal prosecutions, whether felonies or misdemeanors, whether white collar crimes or other crimes and has appeared in many media outlets including FOX Business, CNN, CNBC, the New York Times, NY Post, Newsday, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Down Jones, and many others. Handling everything from assaults, weapons possession charges, drug possession, larceny and sexual assaults to financial crimes, his focus on doing everything possible to keep one's record clean and to move on with one's life.

As a former prosecutor in Manhattan and for the New York Attorney General, Mr. Meissner is very familiar with the Courts and the DA's offices throughout New York so as to assist his clients to avoid jail time or blemishes on their records.

With over 27 years of criminal prosecution and defense experience Mr Meissner is well known in the legal community. Upon graduating law school,earning degrees from both Hofstra University and New York University Law Schools, Mr. Meissner worked for the Manhattan District Attorney's Office Trial Division for seven years prosecuting a variety of street crimes and organized crime. Mr. Meissner then worked for the New York State Attorney General's office Financial Crimes Division for four years where he prosecuted a variety of white collar related crimes including financial schemes, internet schemes, concert ticket frauds, financial frauds, and racketeering. After leaving the Attorney General's office and working for a criminal defense firm in Manhattan Mr. Meissner opened his own firm in 2001 where he has represented people in prosecutions throughout lower New York State and City ranging from federal online poker business prosecutions and large scale ponzi schemes to minor crimes of trespass, assault, domestic violence, sexual assaults, petite larceny and other crimes.

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Experience

Managing Member

Meissner Associates

2001 - Present

Senior Associate

Gusrae Kaplan & Bruno

1999-2000

New York N.Y.

Assistant Attorney General

NY State Attorney General

1995 - 1999

New York N.Y.

Assistant District Attorney

Manhattan District Attorney

1988-1995

New York, N.Y>

Admission

Verified New York

1989

Verified Florida

Education

Hofstra University

Bachelor

1984

Hofstra Law School

JD (Law)

06/1988

Recognitions & Achievements

Associations
  • New York City Bar Association
Honors / Awards
  • A+ Accreditation Better Business Bureau
    2016
  • Preeminent 4.5 out of 5 Martindale-Hubbell
    2015
  • Preeminent 4.5 out of 5 Martindale-Hubbell
    2014

Notable Work

Cases

ROSENFELD V. SCHREIBER

Respondent: Attorney for the respondent, Dr. Steven Rosenfeld. Joel Schreiber, defendant appeals an order from the Supreme Court of New York County. The order denied their motion to dismiss the complaint against them. Upon review of the original complaints made by the plaintiff, the subsequent hearing and the arguments made by the defendants/appellants, the court finds their contentions unavailing. The original judgment is affirmed.

Publications

Wall Street Lawyer | Securities Fraud & Manipulation in Cyberspace | Securities in the Electronic Age        

Founded 2001

Meissner Associates Highlights

Misdemeanor, White Collar Crime, Arbitration, Securities Regulation, Whistleblower, Securities Arbitration

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