Joseph A. Lo Piccolo, Esq. attended Chaminade High School before graduating The Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor of Arts, and Hofstra University School of Law, with a focus on criminal defense. During law school, Joseph obtained summer internships at both the Federal Defender’s Office in San Diego and the Philadelphia Defender’s Office, two of the top criminal defense agencies in the nation.  After graduation from Hofstra, Joseph began a six-plus-year career at The Legal Aid Society of New York, Criminal Defense Division, Queens County. During that time, he represented an average of 1,200 clients, annually, on charges ranging from simple assault to homicide. During that same period, he tried over thirty jury and bench cases to verdict, more than half of which were serious violent felonies, while negotiating a multitude of favorable dispositions for his clients on a daily basis.

Upon entering private practice in 2003, Joseph began expanding his criminal practice into white collar crime and federal criminal defense after being admitted into the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. He has continued to successfully try major felony cases in Nassau County and New York City Supreme Courts, along with a Military Court Martial trial in 2007. At last count, Joseph has tried over one hundred and fifty criminal cases to verdict.

In 2009, Joseph became a partner in the law firm of Hession Bekoff & Lo Piccolo, LLP and then the Managing Partner for Bekoff, Feinman & Lo Piccolo, P.C., a firm focused on criminal defense and family law. In September 2023, Joseph founded a solo practice, Lo Piccolo Law, P.C., with expectations that it would immediately become the go-to law firm for those seeking representation for themselves, or their loved ones, charged with a criminal offense. Those expectations have been met as the firm has grown in both size and success.

Joseph is also a Past President of the Criminal Courts Bar Association of Nassau County and a member of the Nassau County Bar Association, where he is part of the Criminal Court Law and Procedure Committee, and a Past Co-Chair of the Advisory Board of WE CARE, the charitable arm of the NCBA. Joseph has been an adjunct professor for the N.I.T.A. Trial Techniques Program and Criminal Justice Clinic based out of Hofstra University, and a guest lecturer for the Legal Aid Society of New York new attorney training program.

Outside of the office, Joseph coached both his boys in baseball for nearly ten years, as well as being active in his local community. He also volunteers much of his free time to charities and organizations that help those in need in Nassau County, as well as to Kellenberg Memorial High School, where his two children graduated over the past decade. His favorite saying is “We have one life to live therefore we have one life to give.”