Over 50 Years of Court Room Experience

Stephen P. Patrizio, Esquire
Arnold Dranoff, Esquire
James Gaspero Jr., Associate

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Stephen P. Patrizio, Esquire

Stephen Patrizio is one of Philadelphia’s most respected criminal and domestic lawyers. Currently, Steve serves his criminal and domestic relations clients in the five county Philadelphia area from his Center City office in historic Philadelphia.

Steve double majored in finance and sociology at Boston College and graduated magna cum laude in 1973. He went on to Temple University to get his Juris Doctor in 1976.

It’s his 35 years of trial experience that make him a tough litigator no matter what the case. In fact, his fine tuned litigation skills that he honed as a headline-making criminal attorney are what make him an outstanding domestic relations lawyer.

Many of Steve’s domestic clients come to him from other firms who just can’t get the job done. Steve’s criminal experience makes him a relentless cross-examiner in domestic matters, helps him get to the truth in child custody cases and drives him to fight for his clients in all domestic situations.

Steve is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (PACDL) and the Association of Federal Defense Attorneys (AFDA) as well as the CJA Panel.

He is also trained and certified as a lawyer qualified to represent defendants in capital/death penalty homicide cases which requires years of training and experience (See here).

For the last five years, Steve has been named a Super Lawyer in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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Despite a typical twelve hour work day Steve still manages to find the time to bottle and produce his award winning fine wine. He is also an active participant with World Impact and regularly gives his time to serving minority and indigent causes.

Steve resides in Glen Mills, PA with his lovely wife Judy. Their four children are grown with Lauren and Alexis in California and Matt and Brett in the Philadelphia area.

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Arnold Dranoff, Esquire

Arnold Dranoff has been a respected lawyer in Philadelphia for almost forty years.

Arnold completed his undergraduate studies in 1967 at Temple University and majored in political science and history. After receiving his degree, Arnie joined the Air Force Reserve where he served his country for six years. In 1968, he went on to study law at Villanova University where he received his Juris Doctor in 1971.

Throughout his high school and college years, Arnie was an active participant in the Civil Rights Movement and was a member of the Fellowship House in Philadelphia. He saw the inequality between blacks and whites that led to the turbulence of the 1960s and as a young white man, sought to change it. It was this ability to see problems and seek to change them that ignited the empathy and compassion that has served him well for his forty years as a litigator.

Arnie is licensed to practice in the County, District and Federal courts of Pennsylvania and has tried cases in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia and West Virginia. Along with civil rights litigation, Arnie has successfully tried cases in personal injury litigation and workers’ compensation matters. Arnold has received some of the highest jury awards in the area. In 1999, he received what was the highest amount ever awarded by a jury in Montgomery County.

In recent years, Arnold has become well versed in complex business litigation matters involving fraud, usurpation of corporate opportunity, civil conspiracy and shareholder derivative suits. Arnie is an avid cook and can often be found on the weekends grilling for his family. He resides in Bryn Mawr, PA with his beautiful wife Pat and their three children Danielle, Mollie and David.

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James Gaspero Jr., Associate

Jim graduated from St. Joseph's University with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology in 2001. He was involved with the Cap & Bells Dramatic Arts Society at St. Joe’s and was the managing director of theater in his junior and senior year at the university.

Following graduation, Jim spent two years as a juvenile probation officer for Delaware County in the City of Chester. After witnessing first hand the inherent problems relating to the crime and poverty of the area, Jim decided to pursue a law degree at Temple University and received his Juris Doctor in 2005.

Shortly after graduation, Jim joined Dranoff and Patrizio as an associate and has worked along side Arnold Dranoff in a variety of civil matters including complex corporate litigation matters involving fraud, usurpation of corporate opportunity, civil conspiracy and shareholder derivative suits.

Jim also works closely with Steve Patrizio in various criminal and domestic relations matters and has begun to develop his own reputation as a tough litigator in the Dranoff and Patrizio tradition. Jim is a supporter of local arts and is currently a board member of Bootless Artworks in Arden, DE. He loves Lost, Mad Men and playing flag football on Sundays. He resides in Ridley Park, PA with his lovely wife, Sarah and their two dogs Jack and Guinness.