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Representing Victims of Government Misconduct

We are a leading, nationally known civil rights firm dedicated to fighting against police and prosecutorial abuses of the criminal justice system. We have won hard-fought criminal trials, exonerations of the wrongfully convicted, landmark criminal and civil rights appeals, and many of the largest wrongful conviction civil lawsuit recoveries, including the largest ever in the United States of $80 million.

Civil Rights
Criminal Defense

Civil Rights

We handle complex, often innovative lawsuits to expose police and prosecutorial misconduct and to win substantial compensation for our clients. We have won multi-million dollar settlements or verdicts for numerous clients who were wrongfully convicted and imprisoned, including $32.35 million for John Walker, $15.45 million for William Vasquez, and $13 million for Jabbar Collins. We have also won ground-breaking appellate decisions, including from the United States Supreme Court, establishing the rights of individuals to recover damages for civil rights violations, particularly for victims of prosecutorial misconduct.

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Criminal Defense

Our criminal practice emphasizes criminal appeals, reinvestigations of old convictions, submissions to District Attorneys’ Conviction Review and Conviction Integrity Units, and state and federal motions to vacate convictions. For his work exonerating the wrongfully convicted, the firm’s principal, Joel B. Rudin, was awarded the Thurgood S. Marshall Award as Outstanding Criminal Defense Practitioner by the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. The firm’s successes have ranged from full acquittals at trial to successful appeals before the U.S. Supreme Court.

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