John M Desiderio

John M. Desiderio, Chair of Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C.'s Real Estate Litigation Practice Group, has been a practicing attorney in New York City for over forty years. Mr. Desiderio received his A.B. degree from Fordham College in 1963, an LL.B. degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1966, and an LL.M. degree from New York University School of Law in 1969. He served as a Captain in U.S. Army Intelligence from 1966 to 1968. From 1969 to 1980, Mr. Desiderio was an Assistant New York State Attorney General under Attorneys General Louis Lefkowitz and Robert Abrams, and from 1972 to 1980 he served as Chief of the Attorney General's Anti-Monopolies (now Antitrust) Bureau. Mr. Desiderio entered private practice in 1981 and represented clients in antitrust, RICO, real estate, and general civil litigation. From 1989 to February 1999, he was a member of the firm of Bass & Ullman, P.C. In 2008, Mr. Desiderio was elected to the Board of Governors of the prestigious Columbus Citizens Foundation, Inc., the leading Italian American charitable foundation in the United States.