Michael is an accomplished trial attorney with an unparalleled record of courtroom success. Michael has spent his career fiercely advocating for the rights of criminal defendants and those whose civil rights have been attacked. As a public defender in the Bronx, Michael tried more than a dozen felony and misdemeanor cases to verdict and earned an acquittal or dismissal of all criminal charges in all but one. Most recently, he was the lead trial counsel in Jawaun Fraser v. City of New York, Undercover Officer 84, Detective Matthew Regina, and Detective Jason Deltoro, a federal civil rights wrongful conviction action brought against three NYPD officers and the City of New York for constitutional violations.  After trial, the jury found all defendants liable on all claims, and awarded Michael’s client nearly $2 million in compensatory and punitive damages. Michael has spent more than a decade litigating civil, criminal and commercial matters at the highest levels, at some of the country’s most elite legal institutions.

Len Kamdang is an accomplished trial attorney, a formidable civil litigator, and a skilled criminal defense attorney. For a dozen years, Len served as an Assistant Federal Defender in the Eastern District of New York, where he litigated financial and regulatory offenses, organized crime, and national security cases, among others. By the time he left Federal Defenders of New York in 2018, he had won more trials than any lawyer in the history of the office. Prior to that, he worked as a Staff Attorney at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, where he won full acquittals as lead counsel in all of his felony jury trials. Len also worked as a Senior Associate at the civil rights firm Neufeld Scheck Brustin Hoffman & Freudenberger, LLP, where he litigated complex wrongful conviction cases all over the country. Many of the cases on which he worked resulted in multimillion-dollar resolutions. Most recently, Len served as Senior Director, Litigation Strategy and Trials at Everytown Law, the litigation arm of the largest gun violence prevention organization in America. In NAACP et al. v. Ohio, Len worked to overturn Ohio’s Stand Your Ground law, a type of law that has been linked to increases in homicide rates as well as driven troubling racial disparities in the criminal justice system. In another one of Len’s recent cases, Len helped his client, the City of Los Angeles, litigate and eventually settle a case against Polymer80, the nation’s largest manufacturer of ghost guns, and its founders for an unprecedented five million dollars.

Catherine is an associate at Bloch & White LLP. Prior to joining the firm, Catherine clerked for Judge Denise Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Previously, Catherine clerked for Chief Judge Rowan Wilson of the New York Court of Appeals. Catherine is a graduate of Harvard Law School, where she graduated magna cum laude. During law school, she worked at Harvard’s Prison Legal Assistance Project, was a member of the Employment Law Clinic, and served as an Outside Article Editor for the Civil Rights – Civil Liberties Law Review. Catherine spent her law school summers at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia and the ACLU of Massachusetts. In law school, she received Dean’s Scholar prizes in Federal Courts, Administrative Law, Legal Research and Writing, Discrimination Law, and Family Law. Catherine also served as a teaching fellow in Contracts, Reconstruction Originalism, and Legislation and Regulation, and was a research assistant to Professors Lawrence Lessig and Nancy Gertner. Catherine graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in philosophy.