profilePractice Areas
Criminal Defense
Criminal Defense: White Collar
Criminal Defense: DUI/DWI
Selected To
• Pennsylvania Super Lawyers 2011
No Rising Stars publication in 2009
Attorney Profile
Michael J. Diamondstein
Michael Diamondstein
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania (PA)
Profile
Attorney Michael J. Diamondstein is a member of the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and federal Bars who has handled over 10,000 criminal cases in state and federal courts. He has defended high-profile, media-sensitive cases as well as serious but unreported criminal cases. He has secured acquittals and dismissals for hundreds of his previous clients. He is well respected in the legal community as he routinely represents clients who have been referred to him by judges, prosecutors, law enforcement officers and fellow attorneys.
Mr. Diamondstein's vast experience and demonstrated skill have led him to be named as one of the Top One Hundred Pennsylvania Trial Attorneys by the National Trial Lawyers and have made him qualified to handle death penalty cases under Pennsylvania Rule 801. This same level of experience and skill enables him to provide the highest standard of representation for anyone accused of crimes, under investigation or recently arrested.
Michael J. Diamondstein is a lifelong resident of the Philadelphia metropolitan area. A graduate of Ithaca College, Mr. Diamondstein attended Widener University School of Law, from which graduated summa cum laude.
About Michael Diamondstein
Law School: Widener University School of Law
Admitted: 1996, Pennsylvania
Professional Webpage: www.michaeldiamondstein.com/
Honors and Awards:
- Awarded William I. Schaffer and Emily N. Maxwell Memorial Scholarships
- Selected as a Josiah Oliver Wolcott Fellow
- Received American Jurisprudence Awards and Certificate of Achievements in Criminal Procedure, Constitutional Law, Secured Transactions, Capital Punishment, Professional Responsibility and Wills and Trusts
- Wolcott Fellowship, Widener University School of Law
Bar/Professional Activity:
- Master, Philadelphia Criminal Inn of Court
- Member, Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys
- Lifetime Member, National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys
- New Jersey, 1996
- Pennsylvania, 1996
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1997
- U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, 1997
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 2001
Scholarly Lectures and Writings:
- Instructor, Continuing Legal Educations Courses for Pennsylvania Bar Institute, 2009 - Present
- Judge, Regional Trial Competition, Temple University School of Law, February 2003 - Present
- Illinois: An Oasis in the Middle of a Judicial Desert Haudrich v. Homedica, 2 WIDENER SYMP. L. J. 331, 1997
- Instructor, NITA Program, Hofstra University School of Law, January, 2000
- Cloaked in Doubt, 2006
Educational Background:
- Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, B.S. in Business Management, May, 1992
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