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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
‘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.”