Dmitriy Shakhnevich represents clients in Criminal and Personal Injury cases.
Dmitriy’s career in the legal profession began in
2006, with a part-time paralegal position at a personal injury
litigation firm in downtown Manhattan. Thereafter, he decided to try his
hand at criminal work and that decision culminated in a year-long
college internship at the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office.
Throughout that time, Dmitriy was assigned to assist in the prosecution
of those charged with misdemeanor offenses such as DWI/DUI, petit
larceny, trespassing, marijuana and other forms of criminal possession,
endangering the welfare of a child and disorderly conduct in Brooklyn's
state courts. Several years later, he returned to the Brooklyn District
Attorney’s Office as a legal intern, this time to assist in the
prosecution of those charged with violent felony offenses.
As his time in the legal field progressed, Dmitriy
began to broaden his understanding of criminal practice and devoted
substantial time in law school working for and training under several of
the highest regarded criminal defense attorneys in the profession.
Among those was a distinguished trial lawyer and former Homicide
prosecutor with whom Dmitriy worked on cases in which clients were
charged with murder, attempted murder, rape, robbery, burglary, assault
and fraud. Also while in law school, Dmitriy worked for an acclaimed
criminal defense attorney at whose firm Dmitriy was tasked with
performing legal research for the drafting of a Defense Sentencing
Memorandum in the United States government’s prosecution of an alleged
mafia boss in the Eastern District of New York, who was acquitted of
committing six murders.
Upon graduation, his experience landed Dmitriy a job
at the office of a prominent white collar crime attorney, whose firm
Dmitriy ultimately served as lead law clerk as it represented individual
and corporate criminal defendants charged with or investigated for
crimes involving mail fraud, wire fraud, fraud involving health care
agencies, financial institutions, securities, benefits and corporations,
various computer crimes, crimes involving public corruption, child
pornography, invasion of privacy, weapons possession, narcotics
distribution, terrorism, racketeering, rape and murder. Dmitriy also
co-authored an article entitled, “The Nickel or Not: The Fifth Amendment Privilege for Individuals in FCPA Investigations,” published in Ethisphere Magazine’s
Q3 2013 edition. He has worked on state cases in all five boroughs as
well as federal cases in both the Southern and Eastern Districts of New
York.
Today, all of that experience serves the clients
Dmitriy represents on a daily basis. His representation is honest,
effective and premised on putting the interests of his clients first.
Dmitriy understands that a lawyer must form a connection with his
clients that exceeds the four walls of the courtroom. And he runs his
practice that way.
Dmitriy received his Juris Doctor from New York Law
School and is admitted to practice law in New York and New Jersey State
and Federal Courts.