Levy & Rizzo, LLC

A person with an old conviction who finds out a job offer or an apartment application just fell through usually arrives at a site like this one with a single blunt question: can the record be made to go away, and is the person asking even eligible. Levy & Rizzo, LLC builds its whole pitch around that moment. The Bronx firm works only on New York criminal record sealing under the state law that took effect in October 2017, and the homepage does not pretend to do anything else. There is a clarity to that narrowness. A visitor is not wading through estate planning, personal injury, and immigration to find the one thing they came for.

New York criminal record sealing under state law

The sealing law it leans on is a real and fairly recent piece of New York legislation, and the site spends time explaining who qualifies and who does not. There are sections on the consequences a record carries, the eligibility rules, and the practical benefits of sealing. That groundwork is worth the space, because the statute is restrictive. Most people who think they qualify will run into a limit on how many convictions can be sealed or a waiting period that has not yet passed. By putting the eligibility criteria up front, the firm lets a reader self-screen before picking up the phone, which is more useful than a page that just says "call now for a free consultation."

Who qualifies and practical benefits of sealing

The service list is concrete rather than vague. Levy & Rizzo, LLC handles sealing of both misdemeanor and felony convictions, and it calls out DWI records and drug convictions specifically. Those two categories carry their own quirks under the law, so naming them suggests the firm has dealt with them often enough to flag them. The site also describes representation at the judicial hearing itself, including the part most people do not anticipate: a District Attorney can oppose a sealing petition, and someone has to argue against that objection in front of a judge.

Misdemeanor and felony convictions including DWI records

That last point is the real distinction. Filing a petition is paperwork. Standing in a courtroom and rebutting a prosecutor who wants the record left open is lawyering, and it is the reason a person might hire counsel instead of trying the process alone. Levy & Rizzo, LLC frames its role as carrying an eligible client through the petition from the first filing to the hearing, which reads as an honest description of what the work actually involves.

Representation through petition filing to judicial hearing

Geographic reach is broader than the Bronx address might imply. The site carries location-specific practice pages for at least thirteen New York counties and boroughs, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx among them, with others scattered across the state. For a niche practice this is a sensible structure: sealing petitions are filed in the court where the conviction happened, so a Brooklyn case and a Queens case run on different ground. Pages tied to each jurisdiction are more than a search-traffic play; they reflect how the cases actually get filed.

From Brooklyn to thirteen counties across New York

Two lawyers are named, which counts for something in a field where plenty of sites stay anonymous. Eric D. Levy is presented with more than twenty years of criminal defense experience, and Jeffrey Rizzo with fifteen years of trial work. Those are claims a reader can later check against the New York attorney registration records, and the fact that the firm attaches names and tenure to the work makes the whole operation easier to trust than an unsigned landing page would be. Trial experience is the relevant kind here, given that contested petitions end up in front of a judge.

Named attorneys with criminal defense trial experience

Contact details are easy to find. A phone number sits in plain view, a physical office address in the Bronx is listed, and a contact form is available for anyone who would rather write than call. There is no hunting through a footer or filling out a gate just to learn where the firm sits. For someone weighing whether to deal with a real local office or an out-of-state lead-generation outfit, that visible Bronx address is worth something.

Contact information and office location in the Bronx

The one gap worth naming has nothing to do with the firm's effort. A search for outside reviews of Levy & Rizzo, LLC turns up nothing that clearly belongs to this practice. The results that surface point to unrelated firms with similar names, a Levy & Associates in Ohio and a Levy & Levy in Florida, neither of which is the same outfit. So there is no independent ratings picture to draw from, no stack of client testimonials from a third party to confirm what the site says about itself. That absence is not evidence of anything bad. It is simply an empty column where a cautious reader would like to see something.

Weighing it up, Levy & Rizzo, LLC presents as a focused, transparent New York sealing practice with named attorneys, a clear explanation of a genuinely tricky law, and contact information anyone can act on in seconds. Levy & Rizzo, LLC does the substantive job of helping a person figure out whether they even qualify before spending money. What the firm cannot offer is outside corroboration, and that will matter to some people considering legal representation. A sensible next step is to use the eligibility material on the site, verify the attorneys through the state registration database, and ask directly about results in the specific county where the conviction sits. The published evidence is solid on what Levy & Rizzo, LLC covers and who it employs; the piece that is missing is any independent voice saying how those cases turned out.