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Criminal Defense: White Collar
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Attorney Profile
Labe M. Richman
Labe Richman
New York
New York (NY)
Profile
Labe M. Richman is a New York City criminal defense lawyer with more than 28 years of experience representing individuals in criminal cases and appellate proceedings in the state and federal courts of New York. Over the course of his career, Mr. Richman has successfully defended doctors, lawyers, executives, business owners, consultants, brokers and other professionals in connection with various white collar crimes, including bank fraud, securities fraud, embezzlement, environmental crimes, copyright offenses and computer crimes. He has successfully handled a wide range of street crime and drug offenses as well, including burglary, robbery, assault, drugs, weapons and money laundering cases. Lastly, Mr. Richman has had particularly extensive experience and success in seeking to vacate old convictions that cause immigration problems and in representing aliens facing criminal charges.
Mr. Richman is a 1983 cum laude graduate of Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law where he served on the Law Review. He also holds an AV Preeminent* peer review rating through Martindale-Hubbell, is an award-winning lecturer on trial communication techniques, the relationship of criminal law to immigration law and other criminal law subjects, and has published articles on trial practice, criminal and immigration law in the New York Law Journal.
*AV Preeminent and BV Distinguished are certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the anonymous opinions of members of the bar and the judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell peer review ratings fall into two categories: legal ability and general ethical standards.
Comments:
“Labe Richman is the "go to" attorney for immigration lawyers that have clients with criminal convictions that must be vacated for their client to remain in the United States. He has an excellent success rate for getting convictions vacated. He has become a regular CLE speaker on issues relating to post-conviction relief. Labe should be a Super Lawyer.”
This comment was made by a fellow attorney during the annual nomination process.
About Labe Richman
Law School: Yeshiva University Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Admitted: 1983, New York
Honors and Awards:
- Recipient, Innovative CLE Program Award for research, development and presentation of "Effective Trial Communication Techniques: The Application of Advertising, Drama and Psychology to Trials," New York County Lawyers' Association, October 21, 2003
Bar/Professional Activity:
- Member, Cardozo Law Review, 1980 - 1981
- New York, 1983
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1989
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, 1989
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 1989
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1994
Scholarly Lectures and Writings:
- Lecturer, "Trial Communication Techniques," Bridge the Gap Program, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, October 2008 and October 2009
- Lecturer, Public Law Institute (PLI), "Post-Conviction Strategies for Deportees," August 18, 2009
- Moderator and Lecturer, Crimigration: Padilla v. Kentucky, AILA National Conference, July 2010
- "Deported Defendants: Challenging Convictions From Abroad", The New York Law Journal, June 14, 2006
- "Interrogations and Confessions", Criminal Defense Techniques, Chapter 3, Matthew Bender, 1988
- "May Jurors Question Witnesses?" The New York Law Journal, September 25, 2003
- "Opening Within the Rules", The New York Law Journal, July 17, 2002
- "Effective Trial Communication Techniques: The Application of Advertising, Drama and Psychology to Trials", New York County Lawyers' Association, October 21, 2003
- Adjunct Professor, New York Law School, 2004 - 2007
- Author , Federal Criminal Practice: Are Full Waivers of FRE 410 Legal? , Atticus, NYSACDL, January/February 2007
Representative Clients:
- People v. Paredes, 29 Misc.3d 1202A (NY Cty. 2010)
- People v. Achaibar, 49 A.D.3d 389 (1st Dept. 2008)
- People v. Robert Lange, 21 Misc.3d 6 (App. Term, 2d. 2008)
- People v. Felipe Palma, 224 A.D.2d 363 (1st Dept. 1996)
- People v. Rodriguez, 202 A.D.2d 698 (2d Dept. 1994)
- United States v. Lynch, 162 F.3d 732, 2d Cir. 1998
- People v. Calderone, 151 Misc.2d 530, New York Cty. 1991
Educational Background:
- University of Virginia, B.A., with Distinction, 1979
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