Thomas A. Tormey Jr.

Born and raised in New York City, Tom Tormey has been trying cases in the New York and Federal Courts for many years.

After graduating from St. John’s University Law School, he began his career as an Assistant District Attorney in the Office of the Manhattan District Attorney. As an Assistant D.A. in Manhattan, Mr. Tormey started out in a Trial Bureau, where he learned how to handle nearly every type of crime.

Eventually, Tom specialized in the prosecution of narcotics cases in the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor. In that office, Tom worked his way up to become the Bureau Chief of the elite Special Investigations Bureau.

After a very successful career as a prosecutor, Tom Tormey left public service and opened his own practice. Mr. Tormey served as Trial Counsel on retainer with several national insurance companies and a large oil company. In addition, Mr. Tormey became New York Counsel for a nationally recognized insurance company.

After successfully defending many of these clients, Mr. Tormey decided to take on cases of the people who needed help; people charged with serious crimes and people who were injured by the negligence of others who needed help in recovering their rightful awards. Since then, many other lawyers and law firms have hired Mr. Tormey to try their criminal, personal injury, and construction cases for them.

These lawyers and clients trusted their most serious matters to Mr. Tormey. If you have such a case, call and discuss it with him. Mr. Tormey is the lawyer for you.

Honors

Recipient of The St. Thomas More Award | 2014
The Organizers of the Great Irish Fair of New York presented Mr. Tormey with the coveted 2014 St. Thomas More Award. The award is given in honor of St. Thomas More, the brilliant author, Chancellor, and head of the English Judiciary, who was beheaded by King Henry VIII in 1535 for refusing to compromise his Catholic principles and bow to the wishes of the king. St. Thomas More is the patron saint of lawyers, and this award is presented to the lawyer who best exemplifies the qualities and values of St. Thomas More. 

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President of The Staten Island Trial Lawyers Association | 2009-2011
Founded in 1965, the mission of this fine organization is to foster ethics, education, and goodwill among Staten Island lawyers and to protect the rights and civil liberties of the Staten Island community in a fair, respectable , and competent manner. In 2009, Tom Tormey was elected the president of this fine organization.

Bureau Chief of Special Investigations Bureau – Special Narcotics    
Prosecutor for the City of New York -Manhattan District Attorney
The Special Investigations Unit is a bureau of elite prosecutors handling long-range, complex investigations and prosecutions of major narcotics violators.  The offenders being investigated and prosecuted were international, national, and local narcotics dealers who were involved in the manufacturing and distributionof  large quantities of narcotics.  Mr. Tormey, as Bureau Chief, was responsible for the running of the bureau, lending assistance to attorneys in his bureau, making critical decisions on all cases as well as trying cases that he and others had worked on.