Francis DiScala, Sr.

After graduating from Fordham Law school, Francis DiScala, Sr. founded the firm in 1954.  While in college he was on the debating team, student council and theater. He practiced law as a general practitioner but soon specialized in criminal and personal law. He has been on Court  TV  as a criminal law specialist on two homicide cases and lectured at the American Trial Lawyers Convention in New Orleans and again in Toronto. The subject was criminal law. A paper he wrote on how to handle a direct examination of a defendant in a criminal case was the first ever published by that paper for young lawyers.

Charges against CBS Anchor Dropped

In April 2014, a Stamford Superior Court Judge allowed a former CBS news anchor to vacate the guilty pleas he entered on charges of second-degree threatening, second-degree strangulation and disorderly conduct. 

“When you drill down real deep and look at all the facts to this case, at the very most there is was a breach of peace. There was a domestic argument, which happens in 90 percent of American homes and that was all. There were no threats,” DiScala said.

Norwalk man to be sentenced in June for role in 2012 murder

In April 2015, the Norwalk man who was driving a van during a drive-by shooting in 2012 where his passenger shot and killed one man and paralyzed another, was sentenced to  jail time for his role. 

"By all witness accounts and by all factual information, this was a chance encounter," said Baxter's attorney, Frank DiScala. "It's a tragic event that really broke a lot of hearts. Thankfully the justice system recognized my client's role in this."

"They reduced the charges as they developed more information," DiScala said. "Eventually they came to the conclusion that neither Freitag or Baxter had any intention of hurting anyone that day."