Career Nathan Lewin

1 career

1.1 assistant solicitor general
1.2 cases

1.2.1 first amendment cases


1.3 academia
1.4 non-profit work
1.5 notable clients

career

lewin law clerk chief judge j. edward lumbard of united states court of appeals second circuit (1960–1961) , associate justice john m. harlan of supreme court of united states (1961–1962). lewin served deputy administrator of bureau of security , consular affairs @ department of state. later served deputy assistant attorney general in civil rights division of department of justice.

upon leaving government service, lewin founding partner of miller cassidy larroca , lewin.

lewin has practiced law in district of columbia, new york, supreme court of united states, federal appellate circuits, , many united states district courts. lewin has engaged in trial , appellate litigation in federal , state courts more 45 years.

assistant solicitor general

while assistant solicitor general in department of justice under solicitors general archibald cox , thurgood marshall, argued 12 cases before supreme court of united states.

cases

lewin s supreme court cases included representation of banks , other commercial interests criminal cases , issues of constitutional law.

in 2012, supreme court ruled in favor in case of zivotofsky v. clinton, holding political question doctrine not deprive federal court of jurisdiction enforce federal statute explicitly directs secretary of state how record birthplace of american citizen on consular report of birth abroad , on passport.

on april 21, 2014, supreme court granted lewin s certiorari petition in follow-up case of zivotofsky v. kerry, concerns question whether federal statute directs secretary of state, on request, record birthplace of american citizen born in jerusalem born in israel on consular report of birth abroad , on united states passport unconstitutional on ground statute impermissibly infringes on president s exercise of recognition power reposing exclusively in him .

first amendment cases

lewin has been champion in advocating first amendment rights , civil liberties. has argued many cases involving right display chanukah menorah in public forum, including 2 such cases before en banc courts of sixth , eleventh circuits. among these cases county of allegheny v. aclu in supreme court held lubavitch had right maintain menorah on public property in pittsburgh. represented air force psychologist in supreme court case testing constitutional right wear yarmulke while on duty. lewin represented williamsburg hasidic community in supreme court in constitutional challenge in 1976 racially conscious legislative reapportionment, urging rule of constitutional law supreme court accepted 20 years later.

he initiated lawsuit against yale university on behalf of orthodox freshmen , sophomores not reside in co-educational dormitories on religious grounds. brought lawsuits on behalf of sabbath-observers discriminated against in private employment, on behalf of military chaplains denied right wear religiously motivated beards, , on behalf of jewish prisoners denied kosher food. attorney satmar kiryas joel school handicapped children in defense of law creating special public school district handicapped children in community, case heard supreme court in 1994.

lewin drafted number of legislative provisions preserve constitutional right freedom of religion including: provision of federal civil rights act enacted in 1972 protects religious observances of private employees, provision of federal law enables federal employees observe religious holidays without financial penalty, provision of new york s domestic relations law conditions issuance of civil divorce on removal of barriers remarriage such delivery or acceptance of jewish religious divorce, , provision of federal law entitles servicemen wear yarmulkes.

academia

in 1974-1975, lewin visiting professor @ harvard law school, , taught advanced constitutional law (first amendment litigation), appellate advocacy, , defense of white-collar crime . lewin adjunct professor of constitutional law @ georgetown law school , @ university of chicago law school, , taught jewish civil law @ george washington university law school in 1998 , 2001. lewin led seminar in supreme court litigation @ columbia law school.

non-profit work

between 1982 , 1984, served president of jewish community council of greater washington, , more 30 years, served national vice president of national jewish commission on law , public affairs (colpa). lewin president of american section of international association of jewish lawyers , jurists 1992 1997. honorary president of successor, american association of jewish lawyers , jurists.

notable clients

lewin s individual clients have included lubavitcher rebbe rabbi menachem mendel schneerson, attorney general edwin meese iii, whom represented while serving attorney general, president richard nixon, jodie foster, john lennon, nursing home owner bernard bergman, congressman george hansen, teamsters president roy williams, , israeli war hero aviem sella.

lewin represented sholom rubashkin, after latter sentenced 27 years in jail.

lewin conceded submitted picture of baruch herzfeld dancing non-jewish woman orthodox rabbinical court part of case against him, insists minor detail of case .

in 2014 , 2015, lewin represented binyamin stimler, co-conspirator of mendel epstein, ringleader of gang purpose kidnap , torture of jewish men in order force them granting religious divorces wives. stimler sentenced 3 years (39 months) in prison role in plot.

currently, lewin practices law daughter alyza d. lewin, @ lewin & lewin, llp. lewin & lewin, llp specializes in white-collar criminal defense , in federal appellate litigation, , located in washington, d. c.