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Mottola Uris Law was built on a simple premise: two prosecutors who spent years trying felonies for the Kings County District Attorney now sit on the other side of Brooklyn’s courtrooms. Founded in 2019 and headquartered at 44 Court Street — the lawyer’s tower in the shadow of Brooklyn’s courthouses — the boutique pairs Lawrence Mottola, a former Senior Assistant District Attorney with more than twenty felony trials in Kings County Supreme Court, with fellow ex-Brooklyn prosecutor Adam Uris, defending state and federal cases across the five boroughs.
At a Glance
| Firm | Mottola Uris Law, PLLC (founded 2019) |
| Partners | Lawrence Mottola and Adam Uris — both former Kings County (Brooklyn) prosecutors |
| Primary Office | 44 Court Street, Suite 1217, Brooklyn, NY 11201 (Downtown Brooklyn court corridor); secondary office in Melville, Long Island |
| Focus | State and federal criminal defense across the five boroughs — violent crimes, gun and drug charges, fraud, internet and sex-crime allegations, theft, criminal appeals, and expungement/sealing |
| Combined Experience | 25+ years of combined criminal-justice experience, spanning prosecution and over a decade of defense trial work |
| Lead Credentials | Mottola: J.D., Brooklyn Law School (2008); admitted 2009; 8+ years as a Kings County ADA, promoted to Senior Assistant District Attorney after trying more than 20 felony cases to verdict in Kings County Supreme Court |
| Fee Structure | Free initial consultation; 24/7 availability; the firm advertises affordable rates |
Career History
Lawrence Mottola graduated Brooklyn Law School in 2008 and went directly into the Kings County District Attorney’s Office, where he spent more than eight years, prosecuted hundreds of criminal cases, and earned promotion to Senior Assistant District Attorney on the strength of over twenty felony trials in Kings County Supreme Court — the venue where Brooklyn’s most serious cases are tried. Adam Uris likewise came up through the Brooklyn prosecutor’s office before crossing to the defense. The two founded Mottola Uris Law in 2019 expressly to convert that trial experience and system familiarity into defense outcomes, and have since built a five-borough state and federal practice from the Court Street corridor, with a satellite office in Melville serving Long Island clients.
Practice Concentration
The practice covers the criminal docket end to end: investigation-stage representation before charges are filed, misdemeanors and felonies through violent crimes, firearms, narcotics, fraud, internet and sex-offense allegations, plus criminal appeals and record sealing. The firm’s stated philosophy is candid about litigation reality — most cases never go to trial, and the craft lies in charge-stage advocacy and negotiation — while maintaining that when a case must be tried, the partners’ prosecutorial trial formation is the asset that matters. Federal matters, with their distinct sentencing-guidelines stakes, are an express line of the practice.
Track Record
The verifiable record is the prosecutorial ledger: Mottola’s eight-plus years, hundreds of prosecutions, Senior ADA promotion, and twenty-plus Supreme Court felony trials are concrete, career-documented trial history of a kind many defense practices cannot show. The firm characterizes its defense record as a proven track record of success when everything is on the line — a characterization we attribute as the firm’s own, since no itemized dispositions ledger is published, and this research did not independently verify individual defense outcomes. Past results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future case.
Client Voice
Client testimonials published by the firm emphasize exactly the traits volume practices most often fail on: responsiveness and trust. One client reports that “Mr. Uris always responded to my calls and emails,” and another writes he had never found a lawyer working in his best interest until retaining Mottola. Third-party platform review volume is modest for a 2019-founded firm, which we note plainly; a Justia peer assessment rates Mottola at the scale’s top for knowledge, analysis, communication, and ethics. This research did not surface any public disciplinary findings against either partner.
Beyond the Courtroom
The firm’s accessibility model — free consultations, around-the-clock availability, and advertised affordable rates — is itself the community-facing feature that matters most in criminal defense, where the alternative for many Brooklyn defendants is an overloaded assigned-counsel system. The Court Street headquarters keeps the practice physically embedded in the borough’s legal ecosystem.
Recognition
Sorting per our standard: Mottola’s Senior ADA promotion is the substantive, employer-conferred credential in this record; the American Institute of Criminal Law Attorneys “10 Best in Client Satisfaction” selections (2018–2020) and the “Best of the Best Attorneys” Top 10 firm designations (2022–2023) are membership- and fee-based marketing-program awards, which we label as such; the Justia peer rating is an open-platform peer review. A disclosure we apply to every New York profile: New York State does not operate a board certification program for legal specialties comparable to the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, so no New York attorney profile on this site will describe its subject as a state-certified specialist, and this profile attributes no certification to either partner.
New York Legal Backdrop
A New York criminal case moves on statutory clocks that defendants rarely know exist. After arrest, arraignment generally must occur within about twenty-four hours; a felony defendant held on bail must be released under CPL § 180.80 if the prosecution fails to secure grand jury action within the statutory period (120 hours, or 144 hours spanning a weekend or holiday). CPL § 30.30 sets speedy-trial clocks — six months on most felonies, ninety days on class A misdemeanors — and New York’s discovery reform, CPL Article 245, obligates prosecutors to turn over their evidence on an automatic timetable. CPL § 160.59 permits sealing of up to two eligible convictions after ten crime-free years — a remedy this firm expressly handles. Brooklyn felonies are tried in Kings County Supreme Court, the exact venue of Mottola’s prosecutorial trial record. None of this is legal advice; consult a licensed New York attorney about your situation.
Awesome Attorneys Assessment
The case for Mottola Uris is same-courthouse conversion: both partners formed inside the Brooklyn DA’s office, the lead partner with a documented Senior-ADA felony trial record in the very Supreme Court where his clients’ cases now land, an accessible free-consultation and affordable-rates model, and full-docket coverage from investigation through appeal and sealing.
The honest trade-offs, stated plainly: this is a young firm (2019) with a two-partner core and a correspondingly modest third-party review footprint; the defense-side track record is firm-characterized rather than itemized; Uris’s individual prosecutorial tenure is less documented in public sources than Mottola’s; the headline client-satisfaction awards are marketing programs, labeled above; and the Melville satellite means some practice attention runs to Long Island — the Brooklyn office is the primary, per the firm’s own designation.
Methodology & Sourcing
This profile was researched and written independently by Awesome Attorneys in August 2026 without the participation, sponsorship, or payment of Mottola Uris Law, PLLC. Primary sources: the firm’s website (mu-legal.com), including its about, criminal-defense, and partner-biography pages (2019 founding by two former Brooklyn prosecutors; primary Brooklyn and secondary Melville addresses as designated by the firm; Mottola’s Brooklyn Law 2008 graduation, eight-plus-year Kings County DA tenure, Senior ADA promotion, and twenty-plus felony trials; practice scope; fee model; client testimonials quoted in Client Voice; the marketing-program awards labeled in Recognition). Independent verification: Justia and Cornell LII attorney listings (Mottola’s 2009 admission, OCA registration, practice areas, and the Suite 1217 Brooklyn address; peer rating); FindLaw and LawInfo firm listings (Brooklyn main-office designation); Yelp and Facebook listings (founding history; former-prosecutor positioning). Statutes cited in the New York Legal Backdrop were verified against the New York Criminal Procedure Law (§§ 30.30, 160.59, 180.80, and Article 245).
Publisher Disclosure & Independence Notice
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