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Address: 247 Livingston Avenue, new-brunswick, NJ, 08901-3089
Law Firm: Benedict and Altman
Phone: 732-745-9000
Fax: 732-214-1897
Email:
Website: http://benedictandaltman.com
| Title | Associate |
| First Year of Call | |
| Areas of Practice | Criminal Law, DUI/DWI, Drug Crimes, White Collar Crime, Juvenile Criminal Law, Traffic Violations, Parole and Probation |
| Description | Steven D. Altman is a partner and founding member of the firm. After graduating from Suffolk Law School in Boston in 1969, he enlisted in the New Jersey National Guard, where he spent six years. Once he completed basic training, Mr. Altman started his legal career in the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office as a member of the Criminal Justice Division.Fortunately, Mr. Altman found an opportunity to fulfill his goal of becoming a criminal trial attorney when he was offered a position in the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office. He remained there for five years, when he left to enter private practice. During that five-year period, he tried a wide variety of cases, ranging from murder and rape, to narcotics, wiretap cases, and thefts. For two of those years he was Supervisor of the Narcotics and Organized Crime Task Force. In 1978, decided to form a partnership with his former colleague from the Prosecutor’s Office, Joseph Benedict.Mr. Altman’s entire legal career has exclusively been devoted to criminal law. More particularly, he has been involved in countless trials for capital murder, narcotics, political corruption, and financial crimes. He is one of the few lawyers who had tried wiretap cases, as well as a significant number of cases pertaining to different forms of sexual abuse, and numerous trials alleging vehicular homicide.Mr. Altman is certified by the New Jersey Supreme Court as a Criminal Trial Attorney. He has been named in New Jersey Super Lawyers magazine every year since 2005; and in Best Lawyers in America every year since 1995. In 2012, Best Lawyers named him ‘Lawyer of the Year’ in the area of Criminal Defense – White Collar. New York Magazine annually rates him as one of the top criminal lawyers in the metropolitan New York City area, and American Trial Lawyers considers him one fo the top 100 trial lawyers in the area of criminal law. Martindale Hubbell, one of the oldest rating services, continuously awards him an AV rating, their highest.Named as a ‘Rising Star’ among young lawyers in New Jersey, 2009, by New Jersey Monthly Magazine; Law Clerk to the Hon. Bryan D. Garruto, J.S.C. 1999-2000; University of Vermont Varsity Tennis (1993-1997). |
Serving the criminal defense needs of the community since 1978The firm has been included by U.S. News and World Report in their ‘Best Lawyers’ and ‘Best Law Firms’ issues, in the practice areas of ‘Criminal Defense – White Collar’ and ‘Criminal Defense – Non-White Collar.’ For 2012, Best Lawyers named Mr. Benedict ‘Lawyer of the Year’ in the area of Criminal Defense – Non-White Collar. The same publication named Mr. Altman ‘Lawyer of the…
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