The Law Offices of Joel B. Rudin
A new approach to old verdicts
The attorneys at the Law Offices of Joel B. Rudin are imaginative and resourceful and work very hard to find a way to accomplish client goals. The firm represents clients without fear of taking on the powerful—including prosecutors and their offices that engage in misconduct. What makes Rudin and his team stand out is their ability to deconstruct a criminal trial to its basic elements, and then reconstruct it to show what went wrong leading up to the initial verdict. A keen understanding of criminal trials and a willingness to take on the establishment are central to the firm’s success.
Small, dedicated, and versatile
The practice is extremely versatile for a small firm. Mr. Rudin has briefed and argued two cases in the U.S. Supreme Court and in appellate courts all over the country. He has successfully litigated difficult civil rights cases on behalf of the wrongfully convicted. And, he has also has been extremely successful in trying difficult criminal cases in state and federal court and in finding ways of overturning criminal convictions—often after many unsuccessful appeals by other attorneys.
The breadth of the firm’s experience and practice areas relating to criminal justice issues enables its attorneys to plan sophisticated litigation strategies and win favorable results through the following:
- Pre-trial motion practice
- Plea bargaining
- Trial defense
- Appellate representation
- Collateral attacks on convictions
- Civil damage lawsuits
The largest settlements in New York
The Law Offices of Joel B. Rudin have won the largest settlements in wrongful prosecution cases in New York: $5 million, $3 million, and $3.1 million. The firm’s attorneys have reinvestigated and won numerous serious criminal cases—usually based upon prosecutorial misconduct, defense attorney ineffectiveness, or newly discovered evidence of innocence—on behalf of criminal clients whose prior attorneys were unsuccessful in fighting their cases.
Additionally, Rudin and his team use the media to rehabilitate the reputation of clients in high-profile cases who have been damaged by earlier, negative publicity.
