B.A. State University of New York at Oneonta, 1986
J.D. Hofstra University School of Law, 1995

Admitted to the New York Bar, 1996

Michael Pomposello has practiced law in New York for eleven years, and has extensive trial experience, having selected juries in more than 150 cases and taken more than 35 cases to verdict. As an Assistant Corporation Counsel from September 1995 until the time he joined Jeffrey Samel & Partners, he represented the interests of the City New York in numerous matters involving the New York City Police and Fire Departments, Board of Education, Health & Hospitals Corporation, Parks Department, Corrections Department, and Department of Transportation.

He was promoted to the rank of Senior Counsel in the Tort Division of the Corporation Counsel in February 2000, in recognition of his experience and skill. He also served as an instructor and judge for the National Board of Trial Advocacy in 2003, and as an instructor in the New York City Law Department Tort Division’s Trial Training Program in 2001 and 2002.

Mr. Pomposello joined the firm as a senior associate in 2006, and since that time has successfully handled numerous matters on behalf of defendants, including the New York City Transit Authority, in personal injury lawsuits. He brings with him a wealth of experience not only in trial practice, but in pre- and post-trial motion practice as well.