Richard E. Mischel

Attorney Richard E. Mischel founded Richard E. Mischel, P.C. to provide top-quality legal representation to criminal defendants appealing their convictions and sentences and attorneys facing professional disciplinary charges. Richard attended New York University, earning his B.A. in 1967 and M.A. in 1970. He subsequently attended law school at SUNY Buffalo, graduating cum laude in 1973. Richard is licensed to practice in New York and New Jersey, as well as before the U.S. District Courts for the District of New Jersey, the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the middle District of Florida; the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First, Second, Third, and Eleventh Circuits, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is also admitted to practice before the Federal District Court in Florida. Richard has argued and won in every court in which he has been admitted. Notably, he has appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court, securing favorable rulings in three cases, including one he has argued orally. He is a member of the Criminal Law Section of the New York State Bar Association and the American Bar Association.

Before founding Richard E. Mischel, P.C., Richard worked as an assistant district attorney from 1973 to 1980 and the deputy chief, Appeals Bureau, for the King’s County District Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn, New York, from 1977 to 1980. Richard subsequently worked as a senior associate with the law firm of
Greenberg, Margolis, Ziegler & Schwartz, which was founded by former New Jersey Governor Brendan T. Byrne. From 1983 to 1985, Richard served as the principal law secretary to Presiding Justice Milton Mollen of the Second Judicial Department of the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division. Richard also served as counsel for the firm Franzblau and Dratch and a partner of the New York law firm Mischel & Horn, P.C. Additionally, from 1998 to 2010, Richard was a member of the State of New York Criminal Jury Instructions (CJI) Committee, writing and editing jury instructions for criminal cases tried in New York. From 1998 to 2004, he was the CJI Committees associate counsel. Richard further contributed to legal scholarship as a contributing editor for the New York Criminal Practice Handbook of the New York State Bar Association in 1993 and the publication New York Criminal Law in 1996.

Richard holds a 5.0 AV Preeminent Rating from the Martindale-Hubbell peer-review service, the highest rating awarded by the service that reflects professional excellence. He has also received selection to Super Lawyers for New York since 2008. Super Lawyers lists top-rated attorneys in specific practice areas chosen through an extensive evaluation process.