[1] He began his career as a lawyer at Sidley Austin, which he later left to create his own law firm.

[5] Kurzon was the lead attorney who filed a lawsuit representing a class of about 9,000 unpaid Huffington Post bloggers, claiming that the Huffington Post and its acquirer AOL unjustly made profits by using the unpaid writers' work.

[9] In February 2013, Kurzon announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for New York's 7th congressional district against 22-year incumbent Nydia Velázquez.

[10][11] Kurzon pledged to not accept any PAC or lobbyist money,[12] challenging Velázquez (who sits on the Financial Services Committee) to do the same.

[15][16] In October 2021, Kurzon joined Andrew Yang's Forward Party PAC team.