John is a lifelong resident of New York who grew up in the Orange and Sullivan County areas.

He attended college at the State University of New York at Potsdam where he earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science and graduated with honors. Immediately upon graduating college, John attended Syracuse University College of Law where he focused on criminal law. While in law school, John completed internships with a judge who presided over criminal cases, two district attorney’s offices, and a criminal defense clinic, before earning a Juris Doctor Degree.

After graduating law school and taking the bar examination, John began his legal career as an Assistant District Attorney with the Bronx County District Attorney’s Office in New York City. In that role, he handled thousands of various cases including traffic offenses, violations, misdemeanors, and violent and non-violent felonies. John was in charge of conducting investigations, drafting criminal complaints, interviewing police and civilian witnesses, advising police officers on various legal issues, gathering and reviewing discoverable items, drafting search warrants, motions, and other documents, conducting research, communicating and plea bargaining with defense attorneys, staffing arraignment and regular court parts, presenting cases to the grand jury, conducting hearings, preparing cases for trial, and training younger attorneys.

John left the Bronx County District Attorney’s Office to pursue an interest in the civil law realm of medical malpractice defense. After briefly working for a prestigious medical malpractice defense law firm, John realized that his true calling was back in criminal law.

John left the practice of medical malpractice defense and joined the Rockland County District Attorney’s Office as a Senior Assistant District Attorney where he furthered his knowledge of criminal law. There, John built upon the knowledge that he gained in the Bronx while handling similar tasks and was also part of a task force which conducted narcotics and firearms investigations and prosecutions.

During his college years, John spent a large amount of time in the Capital District, which led to his desire to relocate to the area one day. He fulfilled this desire when he moved to Albany and launched his own law firm, The Law Office of John Longo, PLLC, before combining practices with his two former colleagues to create Longo Pelella & Davis PLLC.

In his free time, John enjoys living an active lifestyle, being outdoors, hiking, fishing, traveling, and attending music concerts as well as sporting events. In addition to New York, John is also licensed to practice law in Tennessee.