Joseph A. Lo Piccolo, Esq. is a graduate of The Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor of Arts and Hofstra University School of Law, with a focus on criminal defense. After Law School summer internships at both the Federal Defender’s Office in San Diego and the Philadelphia Defender’s office, Joseph graduated and began a six-plus year career at The Legal Aid Society of New York, Criminal Defense Division, Queens County. During that time, he represented an average of 1,200 clients annually on charges ranging from simple assault to homicide. During that same period, he tried over thirty jury and bench cases, more than half of which were serious violent felonies, while negotiating a multitude of favorable dispositions for his clients on a daily basis.

Upon entering private practice in 2003, Joseph began expanding his criminal practice into white collar crime and federal criminal defense after being admitted into the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. He has continued to successfully try major felony cases in Nassau, Queens and New York County Supreme Courts along with a Military Court Martial trial in 2007.

In 2009, Joseph became a partner in the law firm of Hession Bekoff & Lo Piccolo, LLP. Joseph is also the Immediate Past President of the Criminal Courts Bar Association and also a member of the Nassau County Bar Association where he is part of the Criminal Court Law and Procedure Committee, along with the We Care Golf Outing, the charitable arm of the NCBA. Joseph is also an adjunct professor for the N.I.T.A. program based out of Hofstra University and a guest lecturer for the Legal Aid new attorney training program.