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Norm selected as a Super Lawyer for the NY Metro area

Using a patented selection process, Super Lawyers selects the top 5% of Attorneys to be listed as Super Lawyers. Norm is honored to be amongst this elite group of Super Personal Injury Lawyers.

Norm files against NYPD after cops allegedly beat and tasered a former Golden Gloves ...

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.

Brooklyn man acquitted of Murder in J’Ouvert festival shooting

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

Using a patented selection process, Super Lawyers selects the top 5% of Attorneys to be listed as Super Lawyers. Norm is honored to be amongst this elite group of Super Personal Injury Lawyers.

Norm drops a Federal Discrimination suit on USA Boxing when they would not let him Box

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)!

Upstate’s ‘Serial Spitter’ Dons Saliva Shield in Court

In court this week, defense attorney Norman Steiner requested the contraption be removed because he said it makes his client look guilty. He also said Poulos denies ever spitting on his previous lawyers, according to the New York Post.

“I meet with him all the time. I sit a foot across from him. I have no fear of him. I don’t think he’s ever going to spit on me,” Steiner told the Post, which reported the attorney Poulos spat on in 2014 attended the retrial.

NYPD Detective charged with pimping out a teen

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.

“It’s a huge victory — they were facing 200 years,” said their lawyer, Norman Steiner

A fed up family was accused of taking things into their own hands and charged with kidnapping their own children from the City’s Foster Care system. The case drew national attention after the family went missing and were found in a van out of state. Norm negotiated a deal that had serious felony charges that carried with multi-century prison sentence potentially reduced to a misdemeanor.

Rape charge against accused ‘black Hitler’ dropped

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

Norm fights terrorist funding in Federal Court

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.

Qns. ‘kidnap’ brood found in filthy van

Their lawyer, Norman Steiner, said the couple took the children because they believed at least one child was being sexually molested. Steiner would not elaborate. Nadal and Payne took off with their children Sept. 19 during a supervised visit, authorities said.

Norm fights terrorist funding in Federal Court

The so-called “boarding school bandit” — a wealthy psychotherapist’s son from New Rochelle — will spend the next year in prison for a one-night string of three Central Park armed robberies. In pleading guilty to three counts of felony robbery, Jesse Wasserman, 18, admitted yesterday that he rifled through the victim’s pockets for cash and goods while his 19-year-old buddy brandished a .357 Magnum.

Building Owner charged with manslaughter in a construction related tragedy

At a time when cranes were collapsing and people were getting killed in construction incidents, Kings County chose to indict a building owner for manslaughter. The building owner retained Norm. Norm believed the matter was entirely civil in nature and should not be in criminal court.

A potential Juror’s honestly got him Contempt of Court charges

When a juror voiced his honest hesitation to serve on a jury, based on his own prior experiences, the Judge lodged Contempt charges against him. The juror quickly retained Norm who came to the juror’s defense and beat all charge

‘CSI’ has ruined the American justice system

Defense lawyer Norman Steiner has seen the way “CSI” has changed criminal courtrooms. “I remember back to the ’90s when we were doing a lot of buy and bust cases,” he said. The defense would always ask why law enforcement hadn’t looked for fingerprints on the plastic bags containing drugs, but “it never worked back then. Half the judges would sort of make a face when you were making the argument. They were like, ‘You’re crazy, no one’s going to do that on a drug case.’ The only time fingerprinting occurred was on burglary and in homicide cases, and jurors were fine with it.”

Norm selected as a Super Lawyer for the NY Metro area

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 files against NYPD after cops allegedly beat and tasered a former Golden Gloves champion in the aftermath of the George Floyde tragedy

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.

Norm files against NYPD after cops allegedly beat and tasered a former Golden Gloves champion in the aftermath of the George Floyde tragedyNorm files against NYPD after cops allegedly beat and tasered a former Golden Gloves champion in the aftermath of the George Floyde tragedy View Article

Brooklyn man acquitted of Murder in J’Ouvert festival shooting

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

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 drops a Federal Discrimination suit on USA Boxing when they would not let him Box

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)!

Upstate’s ‘Serial Spitter’ Dons Saliva Shield in Court

In court this week, defense attorney Norman Steiner requested the contraption be removed because he said it makes his client look guilty. He also said Poulos denies ever spitting on his previous lawyers, according to the New York Post.

“I meet with him all the time. I sit a foot across from him. I have no fear of him. I don’t think he’s ever going to spit on me,” Steiner told the Post, which reported the attorney Poulos spat on in 2014 attended the retrial.

NYPD Detective charged with pimping out a teen

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.

Wrongly convicted individual retains Norm for retrial and wins even though the Court required the client to wear a frightening get up in front of the jury

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.

“It’s a huge victory — they were facing 200 years,” said their lawyer, Norman Steiner

A fed up family was accused of taking things into their own hands and charged with kidnapping their own children from the City’s Foster Care system. The case drew national attention after the family went missing and were found in a van out of state. Norm negotiated a deal that had serious felony charges that carried with multi-century prison sentence potentially reduced to a misdemeanor.

Rape charge against accused ‘black Hitler’ dropped

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

Norm fights terrorist funding in Federal Court

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.

“It’s a huge victory — they were facing 200 years,” said their lawyer, Norman Steiner

A fed up family was accused of taking things into their own hands and charged with kidnapping their own children from the City’s Foster Care system. The case drew national attention after the family went missing and were found in a van out of state. Norm negotiated a deal that had serious felony charges that carried with multi-century prison sentence potentially reduced to a misdemeanor.

Qns. ‘kidnap’ brood found in filthy van

Their lawyer, Norman Steiner, said the couple took the children because they believed at least one child was being sexually molested. Steiner would not elaborate. Nadal and Payne took off with their children Sept. 19 during a supervised visit, authorities said.

Norm fights terrorist funding in Federal Court

The so-called “boarding school bandit” — a wealthy psychotherapist’s son from New Rochelle — will spend the next year in prison for a one-night string of three Central Park armed robberies. In pleading guilty to three counts of felony robbery, Jesse Wasserman, 18, admitted yesterday that he rifled through the victim’s pockets for cash and goods while his 19-year-old buddy brandished a .357 Magnum.

Building Owner charged with manslaughter in a construction related tragedy

At a time when cranes were collapsing and people were getting killed in construction incidents, Kings County chose to indict a building owner for manslaughter. The building owner retained Norm. Norm believed the matter was entirely civil in nature and should not be in criminal court.

A potential Juror’s honestly got him Contempt of Court charges

When a juror voiced his honest hesitation to serve on a jury, based on his own prior experiences, the Judge lodged Contempt charges against him. The juror quickly retained Norm who came to the juror’s defense and beat all charge

‘CSI’ has ruined the American justice system

Defense lawyer Norman Steiner has seen the way “CSI” has changed criminal courtrooms. “I remember back to the ’90s when we were doing a lot of buy and bust cases,” he said. The defense would always ask why law enforcement hadn’t looked for fingerprints on the plastic bags containing drugs, but “it never worked back then. Half the judges would sort of make a face when you were making the argument. They were like, ‘You’re crazy, no one’s going to do that on a drug case.’ The only time fingerprinting occurred was on burglary and in homicide cases, and jurors were fine with it.”

The United States Federal Court agrees with Norm Steiner

“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”.