About Brian
Brian S. Sokoloff attended Brooklyn Law School, graduating cum laude in 1986. He was admitted to the bar in New York State in 1987, and is admitted to the following federal courts: United States District Courts for the Southern, Eastern, Northern and Western Districts of New York; the Second Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. He was admitted pro hac vice in cases in Washington, D.C., Texas, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and California. Mr. Sokoloff’s broad-based litigation experience spans his entire legal career, often with a focus on difficult federal and constitutional issues. From 1986 to 1989, Mr. Sokoloff was an Assistant Corporation Counsel in the General Litigation Division of the New York City Law Department... In 1998, Mr. Sokoloff co-founded Miranda & Sokoloff, LLP... In 2008, he co-founded Sokoloff Stern LLP, where he continues as a high profile, well-respected federal litigator, to whom clients turn with their most challenging trial court and appellate court assignments. In 2012, the authoritative Scotusblog named Mr. Sokoloff’s Supreme Court certiorari petition in Byrne v. Jackler the “Cert. Petition of the Day,” later deeming it a “petition to watch,” with a “reasonable chance of being granted.” Mr. Sokoloff regularly lectures at seminars on employment discrimination and civil rights, and has been invited to speak before the New York State Association of Towns, the New York State Conference of Mayors, the Suffolk County Bar Association, and groups of New York State Chiefs of Police and other brass.
Education
J.D., cum laude
Brooklyn Law School
B.A., summa cum laude
Baruch College
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