Practice Areas

The firm’s attorneys are passionate about fighting for substantial civil rights claims and criminal defense clients who face significant charges, or have been wrongfully convicted. The types of cases they typically handle include:

Criminal investigations and trials

Pre-indictment, pretrial, and trial criminal defense representation in the state and federal courts, including:

General white-collar crime
Business fraud
Mortgage fraud
Immigration fraud
Money laundering
Homicides and other violent crimes
Racketeering
Narcotics
Sex offenses

Criminal appeals and collateral attacks

Direct appeals of criminal convictions (440 motions, coram nobis petitions, federal habeas corpus) in the state and federal courts for:

Prosecutorial misconduct
Ineffective assistance of defense counsel
Newly-discovered evidence

Civil rights and commercial litigation

Civil damage claims against individuals and municipal, state and federal governments and officials, including:

False arrest
False imprisonment
Malicious prosecution
Unjust convictions
Violations of due process and equal protection
Police misconduct
Excessive use of force

General civil litigation cases, including:

Defense of civil claims brought against criminal clients
Prosecution and defense of commercial and personal injury lawsuits