Donna R. Newman is best known for her handling of complex high profile cases in both criminal defense and civil litigation. Her boutique firm represents individual as well as corporate clients. She has an impressive trial record resulting in a high percentage of acquittals. She has successfully represented clients in a wide range of cases including simple frauds, complex security frauds, money laundering, misappropriation of government funds, public corruption, racketeering cases, international trafficking, international prisoner transfers and extradition. Her firm’s elite civil litigation practice involves the representation of international corporations in all matters relating to their business interests in the United States. Ms. Newman’s litigation practice includes appellate cases before both the federal and state courts. She has represented clients before courts of all levels, including the United States Supreme Court.
Ms. Newman graduated from New York Law School, cum laude, in 1986, where she received the prestigious Federal Litigation Award. She was a staff member of the New York Law School Human Rights Journal. |
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Since 1991, Ms. Newman has maintained her own practice with offices in New York and New Jersey. She is admitted to practice in the states of New York and New Jersey, as well as the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeals for the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Sixth and Eleventh Circuits, and the United States District Courts for the Southern District of New York, the Eastern District of New York, the District of New Jersey, the District of Connecticut, and the Eastern District of Michigan.
Ms. Newman was featured in the February 11, 2003 “Public Lives” section of The New York Times, the New York Law Journal Magazine “Top Cases of 2002,” and the September 11, 2002 edition of Time Magazine. Her work has been the subject of numerous newspaper and magazine articles published in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald Tribune, Playboy, New York Times Magazine and the Village Voice.
Ms. Newman has received a number of awards and considerable recognition for her passionate defense of the accused
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She received the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers’ President’s Award in 2003 and 2004 |
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She received the American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the National Capital Area Special Recognition Award |
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She received the New York Civil Liberties Union (Westchester Chapter) In Defense of Liberty Award. |
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She received New York Law School’s Special Recognition Award. |
She is a featured commentator in the documentary “Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties,” and has appeared in numerous documentaries broadcaston PBS and the BBC. She is frequently invited as a guest on national television to speak on constitutional rights and the impact of 9/11 on civil liberties.
Ms. Newman has appeared numerous times on the major network evening and morning news shows as well as talk shows, including :
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Court TV |
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Ms. Newman has spoken on numerous panels concerning terrorism and constitutional rights, including the 2003 Sparer Symposium at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, the Seventh Circuit Judicial Conference and Bar Association Annual Meeting, and the January 2003 conference of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. She has lectured and continues to give lectures throughout the country to bar associations and law schools on the issues raised in the Padilla case. For the past few years, she has volunteered as a guest faculty member at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Intensive Trial Advocacy Program. She is the author of “The Jose Padilla Story,” New York Law School Law Review, Vol. 48, Number 1 &2, 2003/04.
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