About Brian Neary

Regarded as one of the premier criminal defense lawyers in New Jersey, Brian J. Neary devotes his practice to the rigorous defense of those accused of crimes. He represents people in both state and federal courts on charges ranging from murder and street crimes to fraud and complex white-collar crimes. With offices in Hackensack and Jersey City, he is also an accomplished appellate lawyer and has argued in the New Jersey Supreme Court, the Appellate Division, as well as the Second and Third Circuit Federal Courts of Appeals.

Widely known in the halls of justice and in the press as “the lawyer with the bow-tie,” Mr. Neary is a renowned legal educator and media commentator whose client list includes professional athletes, entertainers, lawyers, doctors, business leaders, law enforcement employees, public officials, friends and neighbors. He is a leading practitioner in driving while intoxicated cases, including vehicular homicide.

Expertise
For more than 25 years he has been selected by his colleagues in the legal community for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America, universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence in the U.S., in threeSuper Lawyers | Neary Law categories: white collar criminal defense, non-white collar criminal defense, and driving while intoxicated defense. Mr. Neary has been certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Criminal Trial Attorney.

He has also been named as a member of New Jersey’s Top 100 lawyers in Law and Politics magazine (“Super Lawyers”) every year since the honor’s inception in 2005. (The Best Lawyers lists are issued by Best Lawyers. The Super Lawyers lists are issued by ThomsonReuters. Learn more about the selection methodology for these honors: Best Lawyers – Super Lawyers. No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey. ) Brian has been rated in the top 10 lawyers for the past 4 years including the cover story of the 2020 Super Lawyers magazine.