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Mr. Halloran attended Fordham University in the Honors program from 1989-1990, majoring in Anthropology and Criminal Justice, while on an R.O.T.C. scholarship. He withdrew from college and was employed by the New York City Police Department from 1990-1992, first assigned to the Police Academy as a Police Cadet and Recruit, then assigned to the 48th and 109th Police Precincts in the CPOP units. In 1992 he resigned and entered private sector employment with Ogden Allied Security, Government Contracts Division, as an Off-Hours Inspector and Road Supervisor, eventually becoming a Site Supervisor, holding a clearance from the U.S. Department of Defense. Mr. Halloran returned to school in 1995 and obtained a Bachelors of Arts in History and Anthropology in 1997 from City University of New York at Queens College, graduating cum laude and completing all but dissertation on a Master of Arts degree in Archaeology. He performed field research in County Cork, Ireland in 1997 on the Norman and Viking period’s impact on Germanic and Brehon Common Law. He was published in anthropological journals.
Mr. Halloran attended St. John’s University School of Law on scholarship, earning a Juris Doctor in 2000; he was President of the Federalist Society, Secretary of the Student Bar Association, a member of the Irish Law Society, Senior Bar and Board of the Criminal Law Institute; Best Advocate in the Frank J. Rogers Criminal Trial Competition, and Runner–Up two-years in a row at the Edward J. Hart Civil Trial Competitions. These successes placed him in the “Who’s Who Among American Law Students” for 1998-1999.
In 1998 he interned as a clerk for the Honorable Robert J.
Hanophy, A.J.S.C. in New York State Supreme Court, Queens County, Criminal Term TAP-C, one of three Capital Case qualified parts of the Court. In the spring of 1999 he was hired by the Office of the Bronx County District Attorney, as a Legal Assistant in the Grand Jury and Criminal Court Bureaus. In September of 1999 he was appointed a Special Assistant District Attorney in that office and was assigned to the Appeals Bureau. In January of 2000, he was appointed a Special Assistant District Attorney in Queens County and assigned to the Criminal Court Bureau. Mr. Halloran was thereafter accepted into the
LL.M. program of the State University of New York at Buffalo with a tuition remission scholarship, and commenced post-doctoral studies in the fall of 2000. In October of 2000 he was appointed a Special Assistant District Attorney in the Erie County District Attorneys Office and assigned to the Homicide Bureau. He completed studies for the
LL.M. program in Criminal Law in the spring of 2001, whereupon he returned to New York City and became associated with the Firm.
Mr. Halloran has been published in legal journals on numerous occasions. Notably he co-edited the Fall 1999 New York State Bar Association, Criminal Justice Journal article, “A History of Criminal Law”; and authored the Sections from Germanic Origins through the Colonial Period. He likewise co-edited and co-authored the Spring 2000 edition’s examination of Miranda Rights in New York, in “Life After Dickerson”.
Mr. Halloran is a member of the International Bar Association, Federal Bar Association, American Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, Association of Federal Criminal Defense Attorneys, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, New York State Trial Lawyers Association, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the New York State Defenders Association, and the New York County Bar Association. He holds a Vigil Honor from the Boy Scouts of America and is a member of the National Eagle Scout Association. He is admitted to practice in New York State and the U.S. Federal Courts of the Eastern, Northern, Western and Southern Districts of New York, and his applications to the pro-bono 18B Panel of Nassau County and the Federal Bar as an Assigned Criminal Defense Counsel are currently pending.
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Obtained his Bachelors of Science/Criminal Justice Degree from St. John's University in 1995, where he graduated cum laude, and his Juris Doctor Degree from Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center in Huntington 1999, where he won the C.A.L.I. award for excellence in trial practice. He is admitted to practice law in both the state of New York and New Jersey, as well as the United States District Court, District of New Jersey and United States District Court for the Eastern, Northern, and Southern Districts of New York.
Mr. Hazzard interned in the Domestic Violations Unit of the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office prior to law school, and served as an intern to Vito A. Palmieri, Esq. for three summers during law school. Upon graduation from law school, he immediately became associated with Palmieri, Castiglione & Pellegrino, LLP., now known as Palmieri & Castiglione, LLP.
Mr. Hazzard is a member of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association and the New Jersey State Bar Association, and a licensed real estate broker in the State of New York.
While Mr. Hazzard is now in his own practice, Hazzard and Associates, P.C., he still practices as of counsel to the Firm.
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