Alan Rosenberg, Esq.

Senior Trial Attorney

 

Alan Rosenberg is a native and long-time resident of Brooklyn. He attended college at George Washington University and was graduated from SUNY, College at Purchase, as part of its first graduating class in 1973. After a period of employment as a paralegal and a stint of travel throughout much of western Europe, Mr. Rosenberg returned to reality and attended New York Law School from 1975-1978, where he won a journalism award for a series of articles written for the NYLS newspaper Equitas. Following his admission to the New York bar in 1979 and the New Jersey bar in 1980, Mr. Rosenberg opened a private practice focusing primarily on representing tenants in Essex County, NJ and immigrants in NYC.

 

In April, 1981, Mr. Rosenberg joined The Legal Aid Society’s Parole Revocation Defense Unit, where he represented alleged parole violators in parole revocation hearings, administrative appeals and writs of habeas corpus. He was an active union member and delegate of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys (ALAA) from 1981-1989 and was a leader during the fabled 1982 ten-week long Legal Aid strike, serving on the union’s Steering Committee and producing all 42 issues of the daily strike newsletter (in the pre-computer era). He was an officer of ALAA in the late 1980s.

 

In October, 1984, Mr. Rosenberg transferred to Legal Aid’s Criminal Defense Division (CDD) to try criminal cases, serving in the Queens County office through September, 1987. After a four-month paternity leave, he returned to the Criminal Defense Division, this time in Brooklyn, in January, 1988, and has practiced criminal law in Kings County since that time. Mr. Rosenberg was a staff attorney in the Brooklyn CDD office until October, 1990, when he was promoted to a supervisory position and spent the next 4+ years supervising and training new and senior lawyers. His primary training concentration was in the preparation and trial of drug sale cases.

 

Mr. Rosenberg left Legal Aid in January, 1995, and opened a private practice in Brooklyn. During this period he was a member of the Assigned Counsel Plan’s Felony and Homicide Panels. In July, 1996, he joined Brooklyn Defender Services in its first month of existence as a Trial Supervisor and has spent the past 11 years carrying a full trial caseload as well as handling supervisory and administrative duties.

 

Mr. Rosenberg has been an Instructor at Cardozo Law School’s Intensive Trial Advocacy Program (ITAP) every January since 1995. He has tried well over 100 felony cases, including several homicides, to verdict. He is married, with three children aged 8 to 20, a devotee of the New York Yankees, an avid runner (having completed four NYC Marathons) and a skiing fanatic.