Tom Anelli

Tom Anelli

Tom Anelli & Associates, PC

129 Walton Street
Syracuse, NY 13202

Phone: 315-200-1111

Website: dwitom.com

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About Tom Anelli

Tom Anelli is a DWI defense attorney who founded and grew Anelli Xavier, P.C. into the nation’s largest law firm focusing on DWI defense, before leaving to open Tom Anelli & Associates, P.C., in April of 2017. Tom is nationally within the Top 5% of the all lawyers in America within the DWI defense field as evidenced by his selection to Superlawyers (a rating service of outstanding lawyers who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement). Further, Tom is ranked as a Superb Lawyer (10/10) by AVVO, an organization respected for ranking both lawyers nationally. Tom has been selected by The National Trial Lawyers Association as a Top 100 Trial Lawyer and has been ranked in the top ten percent of lawyers nationally by the Association of Distinguished Counsel. Tom is certified in the Science of Evidential Breath Alcohol Testing, and factory trained by the President of National Patent Analytical Systems, the company that makes the breathalyzer most used by local law enforcement agencies. He is also a NHTSA certified practitioner and instructor of Standardized Field Sobriety Testing. Tom authored the New York Edition of The DUI Book: A Citizen's Guide to Understanding DWI - DWI Litigation in America.. Tom’s has appeared nationally as a regular legal commentator on Tru TV, and Tom received his B.A. degree from Syracuse University, his J.D. Degree from St. Thomas University School of Law, and was thereafter admitted to the New York State Bar Association in 1997.


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