Criminal Defense Attorneys - Garden City, Long Island, NY

Stephen P. Scaring

Law Practice

Stephen P. Scaring is a Criminal Defense attorney who is Of Counsel to Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, P.C. in Garden City, Long Island, New York. Mr. Scaring concentrates his practice in criminal law and white collar criminal matters. He was an Assistant District Attorney and Chief of the Homicide Bureau in Nassau County from 1969 to 1977, and also served as a Special Prosecutor in Suffolk County prior to entering private practice in 1977.

Professional Profile
A graduate of C. W. Post College and The Catholic University of America School of Law, Mr. Scaring served as an Assistant District Attorney and Chief of the Homicide Bureau in Nassau County, as well as a Special Prosecutor in Suffolk County. He also has served as an Associate Professor of Law and Psychiatry at C. W. Post College.

Recognition
Mr. Scaring has been selected by the New York Times to its top 100 List of Super Lawyers in the New York Metropolitan area for the past five years and was the 2008 selection of the New York State Bar Association for the Charles F. Crimi Memorial Award for Outstanding Defense Practitioner. He is rated “AV Preeminent” by Martindale-Hubbell, the highest level in professional excellence.

Professional Affiliations

Mr. Scaring is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and a Member of the New York Council of Defense Lawyers. He has been active in the Nassau County Bar Association (Member), the Suffolk County Bar Association (Member); the New York State Bar Association (Member - Former Member, Grand Jury Project Committee); Nassau Lawyers Association (Member); Criminal Courts Bar Association (Member); New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (Member); Federal Bar Council (Member); Theodore Roosevelt American Inn of Court (Member, Former President); National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (Member); and the Suffolk County Criminal Bar Association (Member).

Admissions

Mr. Scaring is admitted to practice law in New York State and the United States District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York.