Mr. O’Doherty has over 20 years experience as an attorney helping people to solve their legal issues. He will offer a full service analysis of your legal issues. His specialization areas include:

• Wills, trusts and all aspects of estate planning/elder care laws 
• Real estate transactions and zoning 
• Criminal law 

He is also an active member of the American, New York and Suffolk County Bar Associations. Following a thorough analysis of your legal issue, if we determine that your issue falls outside of our specialization area, Mr. O’Doherty will personally select an attorney, who has an expertise in your area, to represent you. This is to ensure that you have the highest quality of representation available. 

Mr. O’Doherty was a former Assistant District Attorney for Suffolk County, New York. He has successfully practiced Criminal & Civil Litigation for many years. He has also lectured as an adjunct professor at Suffolk County Community College, Paralegal Program, for fifteen years.

His education includes: 

• Graduate Cum Laude of Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY
• University of York, York England (International Politics & Theory)
• California Western School of Law, Honor’s Instructor, San Diego, CA

He is a member in good standing of the Suffolk County Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, American Bar Association as well as a Member of the Real Property and Elder Law Committees of the Suffolk County Bar Association.

For clients, he has obtained $1 million plus award for negligence cases.

Mr. O’Doherty works with several outstanding Attorneys and Paralegals: 

• Attorneys: 
  • Harlan A. Freilicher, Esq.
    University of Pennsylvania
    Duke University School of Law
     
    • Harlan A. Freilicher has been practicing law for over a decade. Born and raised on Long Island, he attended the University of Pennsylvania as an undergraduate, earning degrees from both the Wharton School of Business and the College of Arts and Sciences. After graduating with honors in 1992, he went on to attend the Duke University School of Law, from which he earned his law degree in 1995. He practiced in North Carolina for seven years before moving back to Long Island in 2002.                                            
    • As a real estate attorney, Mr. Freilicher is experienced in representing purchasers, sellers, mortgage lenders, and title companies. During his legal career, he has also handled matters in a wide variety of other practice areas, including wills and estates, landlord-tenant issues, land trusts, commercial transactions, contracts, wrongful death, personal injury, product liability, asbestos litigation, debtors' and creditors' rights. worker's compensation, and traffic law.
• Paralegals: 
  • Eve Arditio
  • Faye Oldring