Practice areas: White Collar Crimes, Criminal Defense; view more
Licensed in Minnesota since: 2013
Education: University College Cork, Faculty of Law
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Murray Law LLC
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A prominent attorney within her legal community, JaneAnne Murray has garnered a reputation for being a fierce advocate for her clients, fighting tooth and nail to help them overcome their legal challenges with grace and poise. The owner of Murray Law LLC in Minneapolis, Minnesota, she is well-equipped to take on contentious criminal defense cases pertaining to white collar crimes, RICO matters, drug trafficking and numerous federal criminal law issues, among many others.
Ms. Murray completed her legal studies in 1989, graduating with her B.C.L. degree in law from the University College Cork Faculty of Law, and later went on to attend the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law. After receiving her LL.M. degree in 1990, she went on to work for numerous law firms in the United States, and after gaining nearly a decade’s worth of practical experience and knowledge, she was selected as an international human rights adviser for the U.N. High Commission for Human Rights, investigating troubling reports from Kampot, Cambodia.
After opening Murray Law LLC in 2006, Ms. Murray has brought forth her invaluable legal acumen and talents to clients facing serious criminal allegations. Understanding that often, her clients face serious jail time, she uses her legal tool in her arsenal to help them reduce the severity of their charges or have them dismissed altogether. For her many contributions, she has been rated “Very Good” on Avvo.
Outside her law practice, Ms. Murray is a member of the New York State Defenders Association and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the latter organization of which she is on the board of directors and involved with the Advisory Attorney Group of the State Clemency Project. She is licensed to practice law in Minnesota and New York, and she is admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the United States Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. She is also renowned for her status as an educator at the University of Minnesota Law School, serving as an associate clinical professor of law.
Practice areas
Criminal Defense: White Collar, Criminal DefenseFocus areas
Criminal Fraud, Criminal Law, Criminal Law - Federal, White Collar Crime
- 90% Criminal Defense: White Collar
- 10% Criminal Defense
First Admitted: 1991, New York
Bar / Professional Activity
- Member, Board of Directors of the Irish-American Bar Association (2000-2018)
- Member, Board of Directors of the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (March 2009-2012)
- Member, NACDL National Security Committee (2012 to present)
- Member, ABA Taskforce to Reform Economic Crimes Sentencing Guideline (2013)
- Member, Screening and Training Committees of Clemency Project 2014 (2014-2017)
- Member, Steering Committee, NACDL/FAMM State Clemency Project (2017-2022)
- Member, Steering Committee of NACDL/MACDL State Clemency Project (2021 to present)
- Chair, NACDL Second Look Taskforce (2018 to present)
- Member, Board of Directors of the MACDL (2021 to present)
- Member, Criminal Justice Act Panel, Southern District of New York, 2006-2011
- Member, Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the NACDL (2022-25)
- United States Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit
- U.S. District Court District of North Dakota
- Member, New York State Defenders Association
- Member, Criminal Justice Act Panel, Eastern District of New York, 2004-2010
- Member, Criminal Law Committee, New York City Bar, 2005-2010
- Member, Board of Directors, New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, 2018 to 2025
- United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- Member, Criminal Justice Act Panel, District of Minnesota (2013 to present)
- United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
- Minnesota
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- New York
- Member of the NACDL Board of Directors; Member of the NACDL Taskforce on the Trial Penalty; Member of the Advisory Attorney Group of the State Clemency Project of NACDL/FAMM; Member of Steering Committee of Clemency Project 2014 (consortium of ABA, NACDL, ACLU, FAMM and Federal Defenders to recruit and train lawyers to represent inmates in Obama Administration's clemency initiative) Co-Chair of the NACDL Sentencing Committee Member of ABA Task Force to Reform the Economic Fraud Guideline
Pro bono / Community Service
- Ran Clemency Project at the University of Minnesota Law School in which students represented federal inmates in President Obama's clemency initiative for non-violent offenders; drafted 35 petitions with students; visited approximately 18 clients in Minnesota's federal prisons; obtained clemency for 14 and compassionate release for a 15th, and in 2016, a reduction from life to 30 years for a 16th in separate litigation. Efforts for other clients who did not receive clemency continue. This was by far the biggest clemency project in any law school in the U.S. with pre-graduation students working for credit or pro bono., 2016
Educational Background
- University of Cambridge (England) - 1990, L.L.M. with First Class Honors
- University College Cork (Ireland) - 1989, B.C.L., First Class Honors
Scholarly Lectures / Writings
- Associate Clinical Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School (2022 – present); courses taught: Evidence; Criminal Procedure; Clemency Clinic
- Organizer and presenter of IABANY’s Bloomsday Celebration, June 16, 2009, featuring the John Quinn Memorial Address, delivered by Susan Buckley, Esq., introduced by Floyd Abrams, Esq.
- Program Chair, “Lawyers in the Dock: When Does Good Lawyering Become Criminal Conduct,” CLE Program at the New York City Bar, February 16, 2006
- Program Co-Chair, “Healthcare in New York’s Federal Prisons,” Roundtable Discussion at the New York City Bar, June 26, 2008, moderated by the Hon. Jed S. Rakoff
- Organizer and presenter of IABANY’s Bloomsday Celebration, June 16, 2010, featuring the John Quinn Memorial Address, delivered by the Hon. John Gleeson, introduced by the Hon. Reena Raggi
- Panelist, “Federal Sentencing: A Revolution Without Results? Examining the Present to Shape the Future,” CLE Program at the New York City Bar, October 22, 2009, moderated by the Hon. John Gleeson
- Presenter, NYSACDL “Cross to Kill” workshop on cross-examination strategies, April 23, 2010
- Program Chair, “Lawyers in the Dock: When and How Should Lawyers Be Prosecuted for Acts of Advocacy?” CLE Program at the New York City Bar, April 29, 2010, moderated by the Hon. Carol B. Amon.
- Program Co-Chair, “The Rule of Law in the Age of Terror,” CLE Program at Fordham Law School, in association with IABANY, May 27, 2010, moderated by the Hon. Brian M. Cogan
- Presenter, Effective Sentencing Advocacy, Federal Criminal Practice Program, NYSACDL, March 6, 2013 (New York City)
- Panelist, “Federal Sentencing Update 2010,” CLE Program at the New York City Bar, September 16, 2010, moderated by the Hon. John Gleeson
- Organizer and presenter of IABANY’s Bloomsday Celebration, June 16, 2011, featuring the John Quinn Memorial Address, delivered by Dean Kathleen Sullivan, and a re-enactment of the oral argument in U.S.A. v. One Book Called Ulysses (co-written by JaneAnne Murray) and featuring the Hon. Gerard E. Lynch, United States Circuit Judge, the Hon. Charles J. Hynes, Brooklyn D.A., and New Yorker General Counsel Lynn Oberlander
- Presenter, New Fourth Amendment Issues in Searches of Electronic Media, CLE Program at New York State Bar Association Annual Meeting, January 26, 2012, moderated by the Hon. Barry Kamins
- Organizer and presenter of IABANY’s Bloomsday Celebration, June 16, 2012, featuring the John Quinn Memorial Address, delivered by Irish Supreme Court Justice Adrian Hardiman, and a re-enactment of the trial of Joyce’s U.S. publishers in 1921 (co-written by JaneAnne Murray)
- Presenter, Effective Cross-Examination, Fundamentals of Federal Criminal Defense Training, Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts Office of Defender Services Training Branch, May 2012 (Minneapolis)
- Panelist, Barriers to People with Disabilities in the Courtroom, at Human Rights Symposium, Minnesota Department of Human Rights, December 3, 2012 (Minneapolis)
- A Perfect Prosecution: The People of the State of New York Versus Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Criminal Law and Philosophy: Volume 8, Issue 2, 2014
- Presenter, IHL and the Torture Memos, November, 3, 2013, International Humanitarian Law Workshop, University of Minnesota.
- Presenter, Defending Terrorism Cases, November 6, 2013, University of Minnesota
- Presenter, Sentencing, What Works and What Doesn’t, FBA/ABA/NACDL Federal Sentencing Conference, June 12, 2014 (St. Petersburg, Florida)
- Organizer, IABANY Fifth Annual Bloomsday Celebration with keynote speaker, Hon. Gerard E. Lynch, June 16, 2014 (New York City)
- Book Review: “Mercy on Trial: What It Means to Stop an Execution,” New York Law Journal, December 14, 2005
- “Proffer at Your Peril,” White Collar Crime Reporter, August 2005
- Program Co-Chair, “Healthcare in New York’s Federal Prisons,” Roundtable Discussion, New York City Bar, June 26, 2008
- “Easing Your Client’s Experience of Federal Prison,” New York Law Journal, December 7, 2006
- Caveat Professor, Atticus, Spring 2010
- Second Thoughts, Column in Atticus, Summer 2010 – Summer 2012
- The Brady Battle, The Champion, May 2013
- Program Chair, “Lawyers in the Dock: When Does Good Lawyering Become Criminal Conduct,” CLE Program, New York City Bar, February 16, 2006
- Member, Board of Directors, Irish-American Bar Association, 2000-present
- Professor of Practice, University of Minnesota Law School (2011 – 2022); courses taught: Evidence, Criminal Procedure, Clemency, Sentencing Advocacy, Corporate Investigations, Law and Terrorism, and Advanced Criminal Investigations, www.law.umn.edu/facultyprofiles/murrayj.html
- Member, Board of Editors, White Collar Crime Reporter (a West-Thomson Publication) (2007- 2010)
- Practitioner in Residence, University of Minnesota Law School, Criminal Procedure, Corporate Investigations, Law and Terrorism, and Advanced Criminal Investigations, since 2011
- Adjunct Professor of Business Law, St. Francis College, Brooklyn, 1995-96
- Adjunct Professor in Legal Writing Program, Brooklyn Law School, 1996-97
- Please see the summary of Murray's writings available here: https://www.law.umn.edu/profiles/janeanne-murray.
Honors
- Awarded at annual meeting, San Francisco, August 2017, Pro Bono Service Award, NACDL
- Selected to Super Lawyers: 2012 - 2013, 2019 - 2024
Office location for JaneAnne Murray
310 Fourth Avenue South
Suite 5010
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Phone: 612-339-5160
Selections
- Super Lawyers: 2012 - 2013, 2019 - 2024, 2026
