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Fasulo Giordano & Di Maggio practices criminal defense from 225 Broadway, across from City Hall, the way the firm has since 1993 — as courtroom litigators who also teach the craft. Senior partner Louis Fasulo ran training and staff development for the Legal Aid Society’s New York Criminal Defense Division before three decades of private defense practice, and the firm’s attorneys hold adjunct professorships teaching trial skills at area law schools. The name changed in recent years — Michael Giordano’s elevation to partner renamed what was long Fasulo Braverman & Di Maggio — but the Lower Manhattan white-collar and criminal trial practice is the same.
At a Glance
| Firm | Fasulo Giordano & Di Maggio, LLP (established 1993; formerly Fasulo Braverman & Di Maggio, LLP) |
| Key Attorneys | Louis Fasulo (Senior Partner), Michael E. Giordano (Partner), Di Maggio (name partner); additional attorneys including Joshua Lax |
| Office | 225 Broadway, Suite 715, New York, NY 10007 (Lower Manhattan, opposite City Hall) |
| Focus | Criminal defense — white-collar and federal matters prominently — alongside commercial litigation, appellate practice, regulatory and compliance, real estate, and entertainment work for individuals and closely held businesses |
| Admissions (firm-wide) | New York, New Jersey, and Colorado state courts; U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Eastern, Western, and Northern Districts of New York and the District of New Jersey; Second and Third Circuit Courts of Appeals; U.S. Supreme Court |
| Lead Credential | Fasulo: J.D., Pace University School of Law (1983); former Attorney-in-Charge of Training and Staff Development, Criminal Defense Division, The Legal Aid Society of New York City; law-school adjunct teaching appointments |
| Fee Structure | Complimentary consultation; 24-hour phone availability for urgent matters |
Career History
The firm was established in 1993 and built its identity on two tracks that reinforce each other: trying cases and teaching others to. Fasulo’s formation was institutional public defense — the Legal Aid Society’s criminal division, where he ultimately ran attorney training and staff development — before decades as a name partner in private practice, with adjunct teaching at law schools including trial-skills and litigation-strategy courses, and regular CLE lecturing for bar associations and the New York City Law Department. Giordano joined the firm and spent over six years earning consecutive Super Lawyers Rising Star selections before his elevation to partner, which occasioned the firm’s renaming; both Fasulo and then-partner Braverman were 2022 New York Metro Super Lawyers selections in white-collar criminal defense, and the firm’s partners organized and presented NYSACDL’s twelve-hour federal and white-collar practice CLE. Braverman has since departed, and the firm continues under its current name — a transition we note as a matter of record.
Practice Concentration
The core is criminal defense in state and federal court with a pronounced white-collar emphasis — government-scrutiny matters for individuals and businesses — supported by genuine appellate capability reaching the Second and Third Circuits and the U.S. Supreme Court bar. Around the criminal core runs a broader litigation and advisory practice: commercial disputes, regulatory and compliance counseling, real estate, and entertainment matters. We note the mixed practice plainly per our standard: this is a criminal-defense-led firm rather than a criminal-only boutique, a structure suited to business clients whose criminal exposure arrives entangled with commercial affairs.
Track Record
The verifiable record is institutional: three decades of continuous practice, multi-jurisdiction and multi-circuit admissions, the Legal Aid training pedigree, sustained peer-selection history, and the teaching and CLE roles that peers extend only to practitioners they consider worth learning from. The firm characterizes itself as achieving results that exceed expectations, with one published client reporting exactly that in a matter Giordano negotiated to settlement after two years of resistance — accounts we attribute to the firm and its clients, as no itemized dispositions ledger is published. This research did not independently verify individual outcomes. Past results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future case.
Client Voice
The aggregated Google record runs to 3.9 stars across roughly twenty-nine reviews — a genuinely mixed profile we report as found. The positive entries are detailed and strong: one client calls a matter Giordano handled for over a year “outstanding every step of the way,” and another describes a top-notch firm whose results exceeded expectations. Per our disclosure policy, the record’s sharpest negative is reported rather than omitted: one reviewer, describing a friend’s court-appointed federal representation, alleges the assigned lawyer provided no meaningful help — an unverified, secondhand account concerning assigned-counsel work, which we include because our policy is disclosure over curation. Prospective clients can raise it directly. This research did not surface any public disciplinary findings against the firm’s attorneys.
Beyond the Courtroom
Teaching is this firm’s community signature: law-school adjunct appointments, CLE instruction around the country, workplace training programs on diversity and harassment prevention delivered to companies and organizations, and Fasulo’s years training Legal Aid’s defense attorneys — an indigent-defense contribution whose beneficiaries number in the thousands of defended cases. The firm’s attorneys also appear at charitable events including the Dr. Theodore A. Atlas Foundation’s annual dinner.
Recognition
Sorting per our standard: the Super Lawyers selections (including consecutive white-collar designations for the senior partners and Rising Star selections for Giordano) are peer-informed recognition from a commercial publication; the Martindale-Hubbell ratings and Client Champion recognitions are peer- and client-review-based; the adjunct professorships, Legal Aid leadership role, and NYSACDL CLE organizing are substantive professional credentials. 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 the firm’s attorneys.
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. White-collar and government-scrutiny matters add their own pre-charge phase — grand jury subpoenas, regulatory parallel proceedings, and federal Sentencing Guidelines exposure — where early counsel most changes outcomes, and where appellate reach through the federal circuits matters if a case runs long. None of this is legal advice; consult a licensed New York attorney about your situation.
Awesome Attorneys Assessment
The case for Fasulo Giordano & Di Maggio is teacher-grade craft with institutional depth: a thirty-year firm whose senior partner trained public defenders for a living, genuine white-collar and federal capability with appellate reach to the Supreme Court bar, a business-fluent practice mix for clients whose criminal exposure comes wrapped in commercial complexity, and complimentary consultations with round-the-clock urgent availability.
The honest trade-offs, stated plainly: the firm has recently come through a name-partner departure and renaming, and prospective clients with long matters may reasonably ask about team continuity; the practice is mixed rather than criminal-only; the 3.9-star aggregate is genuinely middling for this directory and includes the adverse account disclosed above; there is no prosecutorial background among the profiled partners — the formation here is public defense and private practice; and the firm publishes no itemized results ledger.
Methodology & Sourcing
This profile was researched and written independently by Awesome Attorneys in August 2026 without the participation, sponsorship, or payment of Fasulo Giordano & Di Maggio, LLP. Primary sources: the firm’s website (fgdmlaw.com), including its home, about, headquarters, and news pages (1993-era practice heritage; teaching, CLE, and training-program history; the Giordano partnership elevation and firm renaming; the 2022 Super Lawyers announcements; contact and consultation details). Independent verification: Super Lawyers firm profiles under both the current and former names (the 225 Broadway, Suite 715 address; Fasulo’s and Giordano’s practice designations); FindLaw and LawInfo listings (partner experience data; the firm’s Bronx-listing history); RocketReach and LinkedIn professional profiles (Fasulo’s Pace J.D. and Legal Aid training-leadership role; firm-wide admissions roster; attorney roster); Birdeye-aggregated Google reviews (the 3.9-star record and the reviews quoted and disclosed in Client Voice). 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).
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