Saturday, June 16, 2012
This Blog
Welcome to the blog of Sam Braverman. I will be writing on criminal law topics, explaining important court decisions and new laws, evolving theories in the law, and trial practice. I believe that for all the airtime and newsprint spent on criminal justice, most people do not actually understand how a court works, how an accused person or company defends themselves, and how the goals of criminal justice are achieved (or not as the case may be). I hope to get lots of comments about my postings, or any question of interest to my readers, and I will use this space to educate people on this essential constitutional right.
Introduction
Sam Braverman has been a criminal defense attorney all his professional career. In 1992, he began his training at the Legal Aid Society in New York City. In five years of doing front-line criminal defense, he was taught by one of the best training programs in the county, defended thousands of people accused of crimes, tried dozens of cases, and learned on his feet how to handle himself in a courtroom. He was promoted to Senior Staff Attorney, served on the Attorney Hiring Committee to interview new applicants and to the Attorney Training Committee where he helped create the training programs to teach the skills the junior and senior attorneys needed to defend their clients.
In 1998, Sam Braverman created the Law Office of Sam Braverman to provide the highest quality legal services to people and companies accused of criminal acts by federal, state, and local law enforcement. Since then, the firm has represented hundreds of clients in all types of proceedings: pre-arrest investigations, grand jury subpoenas, criminal accusations, trials, sentencing mitigation, and on appeal. Sam Braverman has tried over 100 criminal trials to verdict as lead defense counsel in all types of cases, including: white collar crimes such as conspiracy, money laundering, bank fraud, tax fraud, election law fraud, and securities fraud; and general crimes such racketeering, robbery, guns and drug possession and distribution, sexual assault, arson, and murder. On appeal, Sam Braverman has won reversals in the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the Supreme Court Appellate Division for the First Department of New York.
Since 1998, Sam Braverman has taught at Pace University Law School as an adjunct professor of Trial Advocacy. He has taught both the Advanced Trial Advocacy Skills and Basic Trial Advocacy Skills courses, as well as helped developed the curriculum for these course with the Trial Advocacy faculty. He has coached the Pace ATLA Mock Trial team and the Georgetown White Collar Crime Mock Trial team.
For eight years (2003-2010), Sam Braverman was also a municipal prosecutor in the Boro of Tenafly, New Jersey and/or the Boro of Alpine, New Jersey municipal courts. In this role, he was the chief law enforcement officer of the town, prosecuting all Driving While Intoxicated offense, simple assaults, thefts, drug possessions, minor frauds and other disorderly persons offenses, as well as all traffic offenses. In this role Sam Braverman tried over 50 DWI offenses and over 500 disorderly persons or traffic offenses.
Since 2002, Sam Braverman has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Dartmouth Lawyers Association, serving as Treasurer and Member-At-Large. The DLA represents the interests and provides services to the 2200 Dartmouth College lawyer alumni/ae.
Since 2004, Sam Braverman has been a member of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Bronx Bar Association, as 2nd Vice President (present position), Treasurer, Board Secretary, Financial Secretary, and Director. The BBA represents the interests and provides services to the 1100 attorneys who practice in Bronx County, New York, as well as the 1.7 million residents of Bronx County.
Since 2006, Sam Braverman has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Network Of Bar Leaders. The NBL is a bar association of the presidents and delegates of the 46 largest bar associations in New York City, representing all the county and special interest bar associations.
In 1998, Sam Braverman created the Law Office of Sam Braverman to provide the highest quality legal services to people and companies accused of criminal acts by federal, state, and local law enforcement. Since then, the firm has represented hundreds of clients in all types of proceedings: pre-arrest investigations, grand jury subpoenas, criminal accusations, trials, sentencing mitigation, and on appeal. Sam Braverman has tried over 100 criminal trials to verdict as lead defense counsel in all types of cases, including: white collar crimes such as conspiracy, money laundering, bank fraud, tax fraud, election law fraud, and securities fraud; and general crimes such racketeering, robbery, guns and drug possession and distribution, sexual assault, arson, and murder. On appeal, Sam Braverman has won reversals in the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the Supreme Court Appellate Division for the First Department of New York.
Since 1998, Sam Braverman has taught at Pace University Law School as an adjunct professor of Trial Advocacy. He has taught both the Advanced Trial Advocacy Skills and Basic Trial Advocacy Skills courses, as well as helped developed the curriculum for these course with the Trial Advocacy faculty. He has coached the Pace ATLA Mock Trial team and the Georgetown White Collar Crime Mock Trial team.
For eight years (2003-2010), Sam Braverman was also a municipal prosecutor in the Boro of Tenafly, New Jersey and/or the Boro of Alpine, New Jersey municipal courts. In this role, he was the chief law enforcement officer of the town, prosecuting all Driving While Intoxicated offense, simple assaults, thefts, drug possessions, minor frauds and other disorderly persons offenses, as well as all traffic offenses. In this role Sam Braverman tried over 50 DWI offenses and over 500 disorderly persons or traffic offenses.
Since 2002, Sam Braverman has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Dartmouth Lawyers Association, serving as Treasurer and Member-At-Large. The DLA represents the interests and provides services to the 2200 Dartmouth College lawyer alumni/ae.
Since 2004, Sam Braverman has been a member of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Bronx Bar Association, as 2nd Vice President (present position), Treasurer, Board Secretary, Financial Secretary, and Director. The BBA represents the interests and provides services to the 1100 attorneys who practice in Bronx County, New York, as well as the 1.7 million residents of Bronx County.
Since 2006, Sam Braverman has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Network Of Bar Leaders. The NBL is a bar association of the presidents and delegates of the 46 largest bar associations in New York City, representing all the county and special interest bar associations.
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