Dooley joins Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, LLP as an associate in Litigation Practice Group

East Meadow, NY Christopher Dooley joined Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, LLP as an associate in the litigation practice group

Prior, Dooley was an assistant district attorney in the Queens District Attorney’s Office for five years. He served as a legal intern at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of N.Y.; a judicial extern in NYC Criminal Court; and a legal intern at the State of N.Y. Grievance Committee for the Second Judicial Dept. in Brooklyn. He also interned in the Boston, Massachusetts and Manchester, New Hampshire field offices of the U.S. Secret Service in the fall of 2008.

Dooley earned his Juris Doctor from St. John’s University School of Law in 2013 and attended on the St. Thomas More Scholarship, a full tuition award.

His distinguished himself in law school as a Federal Bar Council Award Recipient, a Semi-Finalist at the National Institute of Trial Advocacy Tournament of Champions, and a Finalist at the Quinnipiac ABA Annual Trial Advocacy Competition. He was an Advocate at the AAJ Mock Trial Competition and a Staff Member of St. John’s Journal of International & Comparative Law and New York International Law Review. He earned the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Counterterrorism Law and the Justice Albert H. Bosch Award for Excellence in Trial Advocacy.

In 2009 Dooley was graduated from St. Anselm College with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy. He was a Presidential Scholarship recipient and vice president of public relations of the Rugby Club.

He is admitted to practice in the State of New York.

Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, LLP,  Long Island’s second largest full-service law firm, has offices in Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Its 15 practice areas include: real estate, real property tax certiorari and condemnation, cooperative and condominium, land use, environmental law, corporate/securities, litigation, commercial lending, labor relations/employment law, bankruptcy and debtor/creditor rights, nonprofit/tax exempt and religious organizations, trusts and estates, elder law, telecommunications law, and criminal law.