⚖️ NYC criminal defense attorney, opening an estate planning division WWW.GILBERTPARRISATTORNEY.COM There are 3 types of lies: Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics 📍 NYC and Atlanta As a teen, I realized parts of our judicial system snatch our young black men 🚔 -- who look like me, talk like me, and actually ARE me -- from their tender formative years 👶🏾 of late teens into mid-twenties and scar them in mindset-altering 🧠📚👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 ways.😔 Many of my clients often become my unofficial mentees 👨🏾‍🏫 PODCASTS: 🎙The Gilbert Parris Podcast: Interviews of professionals/students about the inner workings of their success journeys. 👀 Check out these episodes (link in IG bio) 👉 Naquan Thomas (former client) - from Blood to licensed counselor working at Rikers 👉 Attorney Kenneth Montgomery (Death Penalty Attorney) 👉 FBI Agent Fred Galloway(former counter terrorism NYPD undercover) - hairraising accounts from the field 🎙The Pursuit of Positivity 12 minutes or less of positive input from me to add to your day. (Link in IG bio) ORGANIZATIONS: 🤙🏽 Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc ✔️ Prince Hall Free and Accepted Masons ✔️ Sigma Delta Tau Legal Fraternity ✔️ Jack and Jill of America LEGAL BACKGROUND 👨🏽‍⚖️ Former Prosecutor (Kings County - Brooklyn) ⚖️ Criminal Defense attorney in all 5 boroughs and the outer counties ✔️ Member of the Federal Bars-Eastern District of New York, Southern District of New York ✔️ Member of the Federal Bankruptcy Court-Eastern District of New York 💍 Married-my wife is the -ish 🧔🏾 Father of Temple University grad Having a 24 year old son, I always ask myself am I representing my client as if I were the lawyer hired for my son. Media Appearances 📺 Appearances on NBC News | CBS News 📰 Cases covered by New York Daily News | Legal Analyst for Law and Crime Network | HLN. 📻 Appearances on WWRL | Legally Speaking I'M AVAILABLE to represent 💪🏽 and mentor 🤝 (in a wise 😎 uncle kind of way). 👇 DM me If you have legal questions, please dm me unless I am in a room centered around legal issues-thank you!