Attorney Profiles

Joseph Trotti, Esq.
PARTNER

Email at jtrotti@vmmlegal.com

Joseph Trotti, a Partner in the Litigation Practice Group at Vishnick McGovern Milizio LLP, concentrates his practice in the areas of family and matrimonial law and litigation, commercial litigation, including commercial real estate litigation and estate litigation. His family law and matrimonial practice includes the preparation of pre and post-nuptial agreements, adoption, child support and custody arrangements, separation and divorce. Mr. Trotti has extensive experience working with LGBT individuals and partners on family and matrimonial law matters as well.

Mr. Trotti is a member of the New York State Bar Association Family Law Section, the Queens County Bar Association, serving on its Family Law Committee; the Nassau County Bar Association, the Latino Lawyers Bar Association, the Nassau County Columbian Lawyers Association and the Women’s Bar Association.

A firm believer in pro bono work, Mr. Trotti is a member of the Nassau County Supreme Court Matrimonial Pro Bono Panel and the Queens County Civil and Supreme Court Pro Bono panel. His support for charitable organizations includes NY Families for Autistic Children, the Multiple Sclerosis Fundraising Committee and Child Abuse Prevention Services Fundraising Committee. Active in his community, Mr. Trotti serves on the board and as legal counsel of the Forest Hills Youth Activities Association, and is also a delegate to that organization’s soccer league. He is a member of the Forest Hills Gardens Board of Directors and serves as Legal Chair for the Forest Hills Gardens Corporation. Dedicated to educational reform, he is President of the Board of the Community Education Council, an organization that seeks to expand opportunities for parents to take a leadership role in the reform of New York City’s public schools. In that role Mr. Trotti oversees school curriculum, budget concerns, special education, and safety issues.

Mr. Trotti received his Juris Doctor in 1983 from St. John’s University School of Law. He received his Bachelors Degree in Political Science from Queens College in 1980.

Mr. Trotti is admitted to practice law in the State of New York.