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Stewart Orden and Bonnie Orden have nearly sixty years of
litigating an enormously varied set of legal matters. Stewart Orden has
gained settlements for civil clients including personal injury slip and fall
victims and car accident victims to a jury verdict in favor of the owners of
a Ten Million Dollar East Hampton Beach home wrecked by tenants who let the
pipes freeze. Mr. Orden successfully represented a father in a contested
matrimonial case who needed a fighter to gain full custody of his children.
After filing papers in the Supreme Court he obtained a free private school
education for a student suspended from public school for writing a "mean
girls" diary. Stewart Orden won the highest publicly acknowledged award
ever paid by the City of New York
in a sexual harassment case. His clients were awarded a settlement of
$300,000.00 dollars for an unwelcome kiss on the cheek, and some dirty words
spoken as executives in the toy industry. As a trial expert, Mr. Orden has
taught, lectured and given demonstrations of trial techniques to a national
audience of law students and trial lawyers for over twenty-five years. Trial
practice concentrating in civil litigation, personal injury, matrimonial,
white collar, securities, and complex criminal defense. Practice has
included enormous settlements in discrimination lawsuits, accident cases,
defense of companies under investigation by Antitrust Division of Justice
Department, companies and individuals under federal investigation by various
U.S. Attorney's offices, and SEC as well asdefense
of State crimes.
* High profile cases have ranged from: Nieves v. City of NY (won largest
settlement against NYC alleging sexual harassment); Lead Attorney
representing CFO of Candie's Inc. against SEC; Lead counsel in Renaissance
Financial Securities trial; Lead trial counsel in SEC v. O'Shaughnessy, The
successful defense of individual accused in the $5,000,000.00 "Apple
Bank" fraud (client acquitted of all sixteen counts); First successful
introduction of a "cultural defense," in a trial which received worldwide
attention and response from the international community because of its
impact; Acquittal of accused shooter on Bronx Courthouse steps (profiled on
"Sixty Minutes "); Acquittal of major figure on RICO and
murder charges; Lead counsel in the first successful trial defense of a woman
facing the Death Penalty in N.Y. since its reinstatement; Other proceedings
have included trials involving organized crime, wiretaps and other
sophisticated investigation techniques, civil trials for property damage in
State Court, arbitration proceedings, construction lawsuits, federal
discrimination lawsuits, price fixing, fraud, and stock broker and brokerage
firm representation. Extensive appellate experience includes civil and
criminal appeals in State and Federal Courts.
Bonnie Orden has tried over 75 cases to verdict, and along
with her experience as the 3rd ranking member of the New York City Department
of Corrections leading all of that departments investigations, and as a
member of a local school board for six years, she brings another dimension of
knowledge and expertise to our clients.
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