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A DWI arrest in New York City does not schedule itself for business hours, and it does not always happen to someone who speaks English. The Law Offices of Robert Tsigler is built for both realities: a multi-attorney firm with offices on lower Broadway and in Brooklyn, open around the clock, fielding cases with support for Spanish, Mandarin, Russian, and Hungarian-speaking clients — an access model that fits the actual demographics of the city’s arraignment courts.
At a Glance
| Firm | The Law Offices of Robert Tsigler, PLLC |
| Founder | Robert Tsigler |
| Offices | 299 Broadway, Suite 1400, New York, NY 10007 (lower Manhattan); 2677 Coney Island Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11235; and a Garden City, Long Island office |
| Focus | Criminal defense including DWI/DUI, plus a substantial immigration practice and family/divorce work (see Assessment) |
| Memberships | National College for DUI Defense; New York Criminal Bar Association |
| Languages | Support for Spanish, Mandarin, Russian, and Hungarian-speaking clients |
| Fee Structure | Free initial consultation; credit cards accepted; available 24/7 |
Career History
Tsigler holds his law degree from New York Law School following undergraduate study at SUNY Albany, and his profile reports experience on both sides of the courtroom from time with the Kings County District Attorney’s Office — the office that prosecutes Brooklyn’s DWI cases. His bar admissions are unusually broad for this category: New York and New Jersey, all four federal district courts in New York plus the District of New Jersey, and the Second and Sixth Circuit Courts of Appeals, where his reported matters include the immigration appeals Lin v. Lynch and Chen v. Holder. He built the firm into a multi-attorney practice — the roster includes attorneys Michael Elkin, Joseph Caldarera, and Edwin Drantivy — and is separately a licensed New York real estate broker.
Practice Concentration
This is a multi-practice firm, and we describe it as one. Criminal defense — DWI/DUI among its most prominently marketed lines — sits alongside a substantial immigration and deportation-defense practice and family/divorce work; consumer platforms in fact categorize the firm primarily under immigration law. Within the criminal practice, the firm handles DWI through serious felonies in state and federal court, and Tsigler’s membership in the National College for DUI Defense evidences genuine engagement with the impaired-driving defense field specifically. For a DWI client with immigration exposure — where a conviction can carry consequences far beyond the license — the in-house pairing of those two practices is a structural advantage few DWI boutiques can match.
Track Record
The firm’s review record includes a FindLaw-verified client who reported a not-guilty verdict in a DWI case — a repeat-offense case, by the client’s own account — and federal-case clients reporting best-available outcomes. These are client-reported results rather than a firm-published dispositions ledger, and 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 firm’s aggregate review base runs to roughly 476 reviews across platforms, with 44 on Yelp alone — among the largest in this category — and directory materials report a 10.0 Avvo rating. The verified DWI acquittal client described the team as “very courteous, knowledgeable and respectful,” emphasizing constant availability for updates. Recurring themes across the record: responsiveness, patience in explaining the process, and staff communication, with named praise extending beyond Tsigler to associate attorneys and paralegals — a signal that the client experience is institutional rather than dependent on one person. This research did not surface a pattern of negative reviews or any public disciplinary findings.
Beyond the Courtroom
The firm’s community posture is access-driven rather than philanthropic in the traditional sense: 24/7 availability, multilingual client support spanning four languages beyond English, credit-card payment acceptance, and peer referral relationships — other lawyers report sending their own clients’ criminal and immigration matters to the firm, which is its own quiet form of professional endorsement.
Recognition
Sorting the credentials per our standard: the Super Lawyers selection is peer-informed recognition from a commercial publication. The “America’s Top 100 Criminal Defense Attorneys,” Attorney and Practice Magazine, and National Academy of Criminal Defense Lawyers designations are membership-based marketing-program awards, and we say so plainly — they appear here because the record cites them, not because they carry independent evaluative weight. The National College for DUI Defense membership is a professional-association affiliation relevant to this category. 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 Tsigler.
New York Legal Backdrop
New York’s impaired-driving offenses are tiered under Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1192: Driving While Ability Impaired by alcohol (§ 1192(1)) is a traffic infraction typically charged between .05 and .07 BAC; per se DWI (§ 1192(2)) begins at .08; Aggravated DWI (§ 1192(2-a)(a)) begins at .18. Leandra’s Law makes DWI with a child aged 15 or younger in the vehicle (§ 1192(2-a)(b)) a class E felony on a first offense, and VTL § 1198 mandates ignition interlock devices for misdemeanor and felony DWI convictions. A second DWI within ten years is a felony under § 1193, and a chemical-test refusal triggers a separate DMV hearing under § 1194 that can revoke a license for at least a year regardless of the criminal outcome. For non-citizens, the stakes compound: while a simple first DWI is generally not a deportable offense on its own, aggravating factors — a child in the car, drug involvement, repeat offenses — can create genuine immigration exposure, which is why the intersection of DWI and immigration defense matters in this city. None of this is legal advice; consult a licensed New York attorney about your situation.
Awesome Attorneys Assessment
The genuine strengths: a large, consistent, multi-platform review record; real team depth with 24/7 intake; four-language client support in the most linguistically diverse city in the country; NCDD engagement on the DWI side; and an in-house immigration practice that makes this a rational first call for any non-citizen facing a DWI charge.
The honest trade-offs, stated plainly: DWI is one practice line at a firm whose public profile leans at least as heavily on immigration — clients seeking a lawyer who tries impaired-driving cases and nothing else will find that model elsewhere in this directory. The Kings County DA experience is reported without detail as to role or duration, and we attribute it only as reported. And several of the firm’s cited accolades are marketing-program designations that we weight well below its verifiable review base and court admissions.
Methodology & Sourcing
This profile was researched and written independently by Awesome Attorneys in August 2026 without the participation, sponsorship, or payment of The Law Offices of Robert Tsigler, PLLC. Primary sources: the firm’s website (tsiglerlaw.com), including testimonial pages. Independent verification: Super Lawyers profile (office addresses at 299 Broadway Suite 1400, 2677 Coney Island Avenue Brooklyn, and Garden City; Kings County DA background; practice areas including DUI/DWI); Cornell LII directory listing (education, admissions across state and federal courts, NCDD and New York Criminal Bar Association memberships, reported circuit cases); FindLaw firm listings (verified client reviews including the DWI acquittal, language support, credit-card acceptance); Yelp listings for both city offices (hours, review counts); TrustAnalytica aggregate review data (approximately 476 reviews). Marketing-program awards are identified as such in Recognition. Statutes cited in the New York Legal Backdrop were verified against New York Vehicle and Traffic Law §§ 1192, 1193, 1194, and 1198.
Publisher Disclosure & Independence Notice
Awesome Attorneys is an independent legal-directory publisher. This profile was not paid for by The Law Offices of Robert Tsigler, PLLC, and inclusion in our editorial coverage cannot be purchased. Our methodology and editorial standards are applied consistently across all firms we cover.
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