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Norm jumped to the defense of a former Golden Gloves chanp who is also a community youth leader after his unlawful arrest, false imprisonment and his being assaulted. Norm had all charges dismissed and ultimately obtained a large confidential settlement from the City for the Civil Rights violations.

In a sad and tragic case, Norm’s jury returned a verdict of not-guilty. After the acquittal, Norm’s comment to the NY Post was “Even though not guilty of murder and not guilty of manslaughter seems like a huge victory, there are no winners here.

In a sad and tragic case, Norm represented an individual charged with murder at the Jouvet festival. Not Guilty of Murder, Nor guilty of Manslaughter.

Norm is a Krav Maga Instructor and a competitive amateur boxer. When Norm signed up for a USA Boxing sanctioned bout the origination pulled the plug 3 days before the fight since Norm is an amputee. Norm immediately brought a discrimination action in Federal Court. He won the Court case (and the fight)!


An individual wrongfully convicted won an appeal and retained Norm to do the retrial. As a result of what Norm believed were false allegations regarding conduct at the first trial, the client was forced by the Court to wear a frightening net and hood over his head throughout the trial. The impact of that could have caused the jury to convict solely on the client’s appearance. Regardless, Norm passionately tried the case before the jury and his client was found not guilty of all charges. After the acquittal Norm told the NY Post: “His eyes portrayed a moment of restored humanity, he asked me to make sure I thanked the jurors for giving him a chance, despite how he looked.

After a NYPD detective was charged with pimping out a teen, Norm sued the City of New York on the teen’s behalf. After Nor successfully defeated the City’s motion for summary judgement, the City settled for an extremely large sum.


“The United States Federal Court agrees with Norm Steiner and denies New York City’s request for summary judgement after one of it’s former detectives violated Norm’s client’s civil rights”.

In a case that attracted national news attention, Norm had Rape charges filed against his client dismissed.


When the US Government appeared to be circumventing laws in a way that allowed other governments to fund terror, Norm Steiner took action by filing a case against then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.