John J. Dowling III

Money laundering. Armed robbery. Criminal conspiracy. PPP loan fraud. Mr. Dowling has over ten years of experience assisting in representing clients in every stage of the criminal justice process in both state and federal courts across the country.

His clients have included corporate executives, medical professionals, law enforcement officers, lawyers, political personnel, engineers, and even a judge. 

He was the principal brief writer in a winning federal appeal involving a New York City crime family. He has secured the early release of a federal prisoner. He has suppressed evidence in a first-degree murder case. And he has persuaded a judge to release a client from solitary confinement in a federal death penalty case.

Mr. Dowling firmly believes in the wisdom of the constitutional rights that are available to criminal defendants in the United States. He believes that no other civilization in the history of mankind has been afforded the type of robust, protective safeguards that we enjoy in this country and he has spent the last ten years of his life making sure the government plays by the rules.

Mr. Dowling earned his law degree from Syracuse University College of Law where he served as chairman of the disciplinary committee for the Moot Court Honor Society. He has earned two awards for legal writing and his essays on federal sentencing have been published in criminal defense newsletters.  

In law school, he spent two years interning at the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Northern District of New York, helping those charged with a range of federal offenses including bribery, wire, bank, and social security fraud, international money laundering, death threats against public officials, identity theft, child pornography, drug, and firearms offenses, and a capital punishment case.

He is an avid sailor.