Joseph D. Nohavicka

With over 30 years of experience in the law, Joseph D. Nohavicka (Joe) is fully-qualified to take on any kind of case at any given moment. Joe’s practice focuses on employment, commercial, insurance, ethics, criminal, and general appellate trial and pre-trial litigation.

Joe is acknowledged in the profession for his performance in the courtroom, but he is also a prolific legal commentator with multiple publications in the prestigious New York Law Journal and the New York State Bar Journal.

His experience in the business arena has made him sensitive to the time and efficiency needs of all the firm's commercial clients and has created a personal understanding that the marketplace will sustain neither the fear of risk nor the disrespect for time.

Joe is also an Arbitrator in Small Claims Civil Court of the City of New York, Bronx County (2009 Arbitrator of the Year), and a Certified New York PIP Arbitrator, Arbitration Forums, Inc., New York District (Appointed 2004) (arbitration of disputes between insurance companies with respect to coverage issues, property damage and personal injury protection benefits loss transfer) (2004 Arbitrator of the Year).

He was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1994.

Federal Court Admissions

• United States District Court
• District Court for the Southern District of New York
• District Court for the Eastern District of New York
• United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit
• Supreme Court of the United States

Recent Publications

• The New York Law Journal | Interim Comment on Use of Remote Notarizations, Pursuant to Executive Order 202.7
• The New York Law Journal | Illegal Status: Passport to the Zone of Evidentiary Untouchability?
• The New York Law Journal | Silence (or Evasion) Implies Sanction: 'People v. Vining'