Jeffrey Lichtman – A legendary New York criminal defence attorney
Jeffrey Lichtman was recently described as a legendary New York criminal defence
attorney by the media. He has successfully handled criminal trials and appeals
on some of the country's largest stages. His clients include those charged in
the federal and state systems with white collar and non-white collar offences.
For over twenty-seven years, Jeffrey Lichtman's practice style has marked by
exhaustive pretrial preparation and smothering pressure inside the courtroom.
His cross-examination had described in the media as a “relentless pounding" in
which witnesses were “put through the blender and shredded". Jeffrey's
appellate practice has also had great success, winning freedom for clients
sentenced to lengthy prison terms.
Jeffrey Lichtman, a 1990 graduate of the Duke
University of Law holds an AV Preeminent peer review rating through
Martindale-Hubbell. He is one of just a handful of Manhattan criminal defence
attorney to be recognised in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers. Mr Lichtman
is also a frequent lecturer at law schools throughout the country and an active
member of several professional organisations, including the National Association
of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the New York State Association of Criminal
Defense Lawyers.
In the year 2015, Jeffrey Lichtman's office began
representing individuals on Civil Rights or police misconduct issues as well as
on sexual harassment and discrimination claims. And in just a short period he
has garnered multiple millions of dollars of settlements for women sexually
harassed in the workplace. Jeffrey
Lichtman has been recently featured in People and Newsweek magazines and was
profiled in the New York Daily News and in The New York Times as part of the
Public Lives series.
Jeffrey Lichtman focus on areas like arrest and
arraignment, assault and battery, criminal fraud, criminal law, a felony,
misdemeanour, murder, sex offences, tax evasion, theft, criminal domestic
violence, white collar crime, criminal law - federal, police misconduct,
employment discrimination, and retaliation