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Law Offices of
James J. Sexton 130 North Main Street New City,
Phone: (845) 708-9100
Fax: (845) 708-0027
EDUCATION
Ramapo College of New Jersey, B.S., 1994 New York University, M.A., Culture and Communication, 1997 Fordham University, New York, N.Y., J.D., 2001 2010-01-18 12:56:40 |
BIOGRAPHY Still in his 30s, Rockland County’s Jim Sexton has already emerged as one of Southern New York’s most accomplished young lawyers. Indeed, if he’s not already, he’s clearly poised to be one of the region’s top divorce attorneys in the years ahead. With a focus, a natural resourcefulness and a rare level of energy, Sexton has already built a successful matrimonial practice based in New City, his hometown. And his personality and temperament are, by all accounts, ideally suited to divorce law, which requires broad knowledge, a genuine interest in people, and an understanding and respect for what’s often an arduous legal process. Thus he loves every detail of his work. Says he: “If I wasn’t practicing matrimonial law, I don’t think I’d be a lawyer.” At nearby Ramapo College, Sexton majored in psychology and was two years its student body president, all the while working two jobs: He waited tables at a nearby Steak & Ale (“Customers yelling about their $6.99 prime rib prepared me for something”). Considering a career in academe, and fascinated by theories of human persuasion, he obtained a master’s at NYU. His focus: Propaganda Studies. At Fordham Law, he already knew his future: “I had no other aspiration other than to be a phenomenal matrimonial lawyer” because it demanded all that he excelled at. Even before finishing law school, hired by a well-known Rockland County trial attorney, Sexton spent three years working in divorce litigation. By 2001, still in his late 20s, he launched a solo practice that grew quickly, to the surprise of rivals many years his senior. Part of Sexton’s secret: He fostered a mean-what-you-say, say-what-you-mean culture that contrasted with the bluffs and posturing common among some lawyers. “If I say we’re going to court, we’re going to court. Don’t fill up my fax machine with all your intentions.” It was a swagger that’s already resulted to several high-profile victories, establishing Sexton early as a formidable courtroom advocate. |
"I always look closely at the work of my peers, trying to learn something new, to adapt new techniques and approaches. In that respect, I think the best lawyers are an amalgam of all good lawyers."
With two associates today, Sexton’s firm handles Rockland County’s diverse range of divorce cases. Frequently litigating head-to-head against attorneys who graduated from law school well before he was born, Sexton has earned the respect of his colleagues, with several cases on which he was trial counsel featured in the New York Law Journal. In 2009 Sexton gained local attention by obtaining, for a client, what is believed to be the largest temporary counsel fee award in the history of Rockland County matrimonial practice. Described by some as a “compassionate advocate” and others as a “courtroom gunslinger” Sexton’s reputation as a skilled matrimonial litigator has spread quickly over the past decade. Constantly seeking to incorporate new technologies and perspectives into his firm’s practice, Sexton was Certified as a Divorce Mediator in 2002 and in 2009 traveled to Atlanta to become Rockland County’s first matrimonial attorney with national certification as a Parent Coordinator. In college Sexton was a 3-pack-a-day smoker, but quit and took up running a decade ago; today he’s a veteran marathoner and yoga enthusiast. For three years he has promoted his “Run Sexton Run” fundraiser for Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital.
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