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Traffic Court Services

Our attorneys appear for clients throughout Nassau, Suffolk, the five boroughs and upstate courts to handle traffic infractions and suspended licenses. When you retain an attorney from JLRC for traffic court, we handle your tickets, evaluate your complete department of motor vehicle history, and recommend the best way to resolve your pending tickets and to obtain a new license or restore your privileges to drive on your old license.

For most traffic infractions, we are able to appear in court without you and resolve the matter so you do not miss time at work.

Our services have become even more important recently. Most motorists are already aware that the Department of Motor Vehicles has assigned a point value to various types of moving violations. Those who accumulate 11 points within 18 months are subject to suspension. However, DMV has become increasingly more aggressive in governing drivers licenses.

For Example: Certain offenses such as DWI, passing a school bus, leaving the scene of an accident, and improperly crossing a railroad crossing can yield a suspension or revocation of your license. DMV also has the power to review and suspend persons convicted of 6 point offenses (such as speeds 21 miles over the speed limit), and DMV can impose suspensions on those whose records they merely deem to be unsatisfactory.

Take further note that if you are convicted of driving with no insurance card in your car, the court may fine you as little as $100 (which may seem easier to pay rather than going to court), HOWEVER after a no insurance conviction, the DMV will assess a $1,000 civil penalty and revoke your license. Driving with a suspended license is now a misdemeanor carrying possible incarceration. Young drivers who are still in their "probationary" license period will be suspended if they accumulate 2 moving violations.

As if the above penalties were not enough, DMV has instituted the Driver Responsibility Act (New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law Sections 1199 and 503(4)) which presently allows DMV to fine motorists who accumulate 6 points in 18 months with a civil penalty of $100 per year for 3 years. The penalty increases $25 per year for each point above 6.

The rule is simple, whenever you receive a traffic ticket, remember that you will be dealing with the traffic court, but very soon thereafter, you may also be facing penalties from DMV itself.

Our recommendation: Call us whenever you are facing any vehicle and traffic law offense. Your one phone call could avoid many unanticipated problems with the court and with DMV.