About Steven Epstein

Steven Epstein is a founding partner at Barket Epstein Kearon Aldea & LoTurco, LLP and head of the firm’s DWI and Vehicular Crimes group. Mr. Epstein has more than 29 years of experience in the field of criminal defense and has tried well over 100 DWI cases to verdict.

Mr. Epstein is widely recognized as one of the foremost DWI attorneys in the country, specializing in representing clients accused of DWI, vehicular homicides and other criminal offenses. He has represented clients facing vehicular crimes charges throughout New York State and has defended clients charged with DWI or vehicular homicide in many other states including New Hampshire, Vermont, Pennsylvania and Oklahoma. He is often called upon to assist local counsel handing vehicular homicide cases based on his expertise handling forensic and scientific issues such as blood and breath test evidence.

He is a nationally recognized and much sought after lecturer at continuing legal education seminars for other attorneys. Mr. Epstein is Head of the Steven Epstein DWI Defense Institute, an educational program designed to teach lawyers how to defend DWI and Vehicular Homicide cases and is relied upon as the principal instructor in the area of DWI defense for most of the New York City area public defender offices. Mr. Epstein regularly lectures throughout New York State and other parts of the country on the topic of DWI. In total, he has trained well over three thousand attorneys in the area of DWI defense. He has also served as an adjunct professor of law at Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University since 1998 and is the author of numerous published articles relating to trial techniques, legal challenges to scientific evidence, legal updates and other criminal and DWI defense related issues.