Nave Law Firm

Nave Law Firm is a full-service legal practice with a Rochester office at 1400 Portland Ave, Suite 44, serving clients across multiple areas of law. The firm was established in 2018 by Dennis Nave and Sean Kelsey, both of whom had spent years building the DWI Team brand — one of the larger DWI defense operations in New York State. Recognizing that clients facing DWI charges often needed help with related matters like custody disputes or financial hardship, they broadened the firm's scope to cover a wider range of practice areas. Nave Law Firm is headquartered in Syracuse and maintains additional offices in Albany and Rochester, NY.

The Rochester office handles cases across several practice areas, including:

• DWI and criminal defense
• Family law and divorce
• Bankruptcy
• Estate planning
• Personal injury
• Civil litigation
• Firearms and Second Amendment rights matters

The firm operates with a team-based model, pairing attorneys with paralegals and legal assistants rather than relying on a single-attorney approach. Their Rochester phone line is (585) 653-2017, and the firm advertises availability seven days a week.

Nave Law Firm grew directly out of the DWI Team, a statewide DWI defense practice originally launched under the "DWI Guy" name more than fifteen years before the Nave brand was created. That background in impaired-driving defense remains central to the firm's identity, even as it has expanded into family law, bankruptcy, and other civil matters. The firm positions its approach around handling multiple overlapping legal issues for the same client — for example, a DWI arrest that also triggers a custody dispute or license-related employment problems.

The Rochester office sits at 1400 Portland Ave, Suite 44, along the Portland Avenue corridor near the border of the city of Rochester and the town of Irondequoit. The office is a short distance from Rochester General Hospital, making it accessible from both the northeast city neighborhoods and Irondequoit's residential areas. Portland Avenue connects to Route 104, providing straightforward access from surrounding suburbs. The Irondequoit area is a well-established suburban community bordered by Lake Ontario and Irondequoit Bay.