Michael R. Schneider
Top rated Criminal Defense attorney in Boston, Massachusetts
Good Schneider Cormier Fried & Brooks
Practice Areas: Criminal Defense, Appellate, White Collar Crimes
Licensed in Massachusetts since: 1983
Education: Columbia Law School
Good Schneider Cormier Fried & Brooks
83 Atlantic AvenueBoston, MA 02110 Phone: 617-523-5933 Email: Michael R. Schneider Visit website
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Michael Schneider is a criminal defense attorney with 30 years' experience who has successfully represented clients in complex, state and federal criminal and regulatory matters, including cases with a significant civil liberties, human rights and national security dimension.
Mr. Schneider also represents professors, physicians, students, and scientists in SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH MISCONDUCT & ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT proceedings before university inquiry and investigative committees, and also before the NIH and NSF.
Lecturer in Law at Boston University School of Law, teaching seminar on "Wrongful Convictions and the US Criminal Justice System, 2011 to 2018. Best Lawyers 2002 to present, including 2024 Criminal Defense Lawyer of the Year.
Associate to Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, 1993-97.
Public defender at the Committee for Public Counsel Services in Boston and in New York state for ten years, 1983-93.
Of Counsel, 1997-2008, to The Spangenberg Group, a consulting firm providing technical assistance to local, state, and foreign governments in the area of legal aid, indigent criminal defense delivery systems, and criminal justice.
Michael has lectured at legal education seminars; authored articles in the area of criminal defense practice.
Admitted to practice in Massachusetts, New York, the U.S. District Court in Boston, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
First Admitted: 1983, Massachusetts
Professional Webpage: http://gscfboston.com/attorneys/
- Instruction in Law at Boston University Law School, teaching seminar on "Wrongful Convictions, Miscarriages of Justice, and the US Criminal Justice System. Fall 2009, visiting lecturer at Tufts University teaching class on "Wrongful Convictions and the U.S. Criminal Justice System. 1997-2008, Of Counsel to The Spangenberg Group, a consulting firm providing technical assistance to local, state, and foreign governments in the area of legal aid, indigent criminal defense delivery systems, and criminal justice. 2011-present, Board Member, American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts; 2012-2016, Board Member, National Board of the American Civil Liberties Union; 2014, Member of Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Amicus Brief Committee; 2013-present, Member of New England Innocence Project Case Review Committee.
- Best Lawyers in Boston; Best Lawyers in America (2003-present); Massachusetts Super Lawyer 2006, 2009- present; Charles Evans Hughes Fellow, Columbia Law School.
- JD, Columbia University School of Law, 1983.MALD, Fletcher School at Tufts University, 1997,BA, Brown University, 1978.
- Michael R. Schneider & John Tull, "Core Issues in Designing Legal Aid and Public Defender Programs," in Manual on International Legal Aid (NLADA, forthcoming 2009).Michael R. Schneider, "Legal Aid, Human Rights, and the Rule of Law in Cambodia" (Prepared for IHRLG, September 1999).John Salsberg, & Michael R. Schneider et al., "Pretrial Matters," in Massachusetts Superior Court Criminal Practice Manual (MCLE 1999).Michael R. Schneider, "Lex Americana & Jurisdictional Conflict: Evolving Principles of Limitation on the Extraterritorial Application of U.S. Criminal Laws" (1997) (unpublished thesis). Jane White, Martin Rosenthal, & Michael R. Schneider, CPCS Training Manual for Criminal Defense (MCLE 2003).Michael R. Schneider & Ben Selman, "Evidentiary Issues," in How to Try a Drug Case in Massachusetts (MCLE 2014).
- Member of the Massachusetts Association Of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Former board member of the ACLU
Selections
- Super Lawyers: 2006, 2009 - 2024