Martin G. Weinberg
Martin Weinberg
Boston
Massachusetts (MA)
Criminal Defense: White Collar
Criminal Defense
Profile
Martin G. Weinberg is one of the nation's most prominent criminal trial and appellate attorneys. Following his graduation from Harvard Law School in 1971, he has been chief trial and appellate counsel in hundreds of cases during his 36 years as a defense attorney. He has defended his clients on charges ranging from money laundering, tax evasion, securities fraud, mail, wire and bank fraud to racketeering, drug smuggling, internet sex offenses, computer theft, and murder. Weinberg's experience ranges from his landmark Supreme Court Fourth Amendment success in Chadwick v United States through the December 2010 ground-breaking decision of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in United States v Warshak where the protections of the Fourth Amendment were for the first time extended to private email communications. Weinberg's expertise includes both trial and appellate representation and, when necessary, his organizing and directing case-specific teams of nationally selected attorneys, skilled forensic and traditional investigators, and specialized experts.
Selected To
Massachusetts Super Lawyers 2011
Massachusetts Super Lawyers 2010
Massachusetts Super Lawyers 2009
Massachusetts Super Lawyers 2008
Massachusetts Super Lawyers 2007
Massachusetts Super Lawyers 2006
Massachusetts Super Lawyers 2005
Massachusetts Super Lawyers 2004
About Martin Weinberg
Admitted: 1972, Massachusetts
Honors and Awards:
- Selected on multiple occasions to make presentations at federal judicial conferences on behalf of the defense bar
- Frequent invited speaker at national CLE conferences run by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Criminal Justice Act Board, the Massachusetts Committees for Public Counsel and Continuing Legal Education and numerous state bar associations and criminal defense organizations nationwide on topics ranging from white collar defense issues and strategy to cross-examination, openings, summations, electronic surveillance, and money laundering.
- Invited speaker at the annual Meredith Lectures given at McGill University, Montreal Canada on the topic of US money laundering laws.
- Expert Witness on American law and the perils of informant testimony before a high-level Ontario, Canada Commission investigating the wrongful murder conviction of an innocent man.
- Co-Chair of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Committee on Money Laundering and the Reform of Federal Grand Juries.Guest lecturer at Harvard Law School on criminal law and ethics issues.
- Former Board Member for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers for 6 years.
- National co-chairman for the Lawyers Assistance Strike Force for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers for over 10 consecutive years and State co-chairman for the Lawyers Assistance Strike Force for the Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys.
- Selected by his peers for 20 consecutive years for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America a guide widely used by other lawyers to select counsel.
- Acquittal for defendant charged with federal honest services violation in a case involving the Speaker of the House of Representatives in Massachusetts, 2011
- Dismissal of charges against a business executive accused of political corruption and perjury, 2011
- Selected as one of ten "Lawyers of the Year" by Massachusetts Lawyer's Weekly, 2011
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