Ms. Newman opened her own practice in 1991 and maintains offices in New York and New Jersey. She predominately practices in federal court, specializing in representing criminal defendants before the district court and the court of appeals. She currently represents Jose Padilla who was designated an enemy combatant by President Bush in June 2002 and was held for over three and a half years at a naval brig in South Carolina.

She is a recipient of the 2003 and 2004 NYSACDL President’s Award. Ms. Newman recently was featured in The New York Times “Public Lives,” Feb. 11, 2003, the New York Law Journal Magazine “Top Cases of 2002"; and the September 11, 2002 edition of Time Magazine. She was elected as one of the Lawyers of the Year for 2002 by Lawyers Weekly, USA. She has participated as a speaker on various panels on terrorism and constitutional rights, including the 2003 Sparer Symposium at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, the Seventh Circuit’s Bar Association Annual Meeting and Judicial Conference; NACDL January annual conference. She was a speaker before the NACDL Board and was a guest speaker at New York Law School’s Spotlight on Women’s Spring 2003 Luncheon. She also served as a faculty member at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Intensive Trial Advocacy Program.

Ms. Newman discusses how she came to represent Jose Padilla, what has transpired in the case, and what the future may hold for Mr. Padilla.

Nancy Hollander is the recipient of numerous awards in her career as one of the preeminent criminal defense attorneys in the United States, including the Order of the Coif. Recipient: Distinguished Achievement Award, University of New Mexico School of Law, 2003; The Henrietta Pettijohn Award, 2000. She was the editor of the University of New Mexico Law Review, 1977-1978, and has been the author of numerous books and articles, including: co-author of The Everytrial Criminal Defense Resource Book, West Group, 1994; Co-Author, 15th Ed. Wharton's Criminal Evidence, West Group, 1997; Wharton's Criminal Procedure, West Group, 2002; "Obtaining Evidence in the U.S. for Use in other Countries," The Champion, January/February, 2004; "Getting Witnesses to Federal Court," The Champion, July 1999; Co-Author: "Dismissal of Jurors," The Champion, July 2000; "Taking Advantage of Underutilized Rules of Evidence," The Champion, Vol. XVIII, No. 7 (1994); "Winning with Experts," Trial, Vol. 29, No. 3 (March 1993); "Expert Testimony in Criminal Trials: Creative Uses, Creative Attacks," The Champion, Vol. XV, No. 10 (1991); "The Incompetent Child Witness," The Champion, Vol. XIII, No. 9 (1989); "Highway Stops and Searches for Drugs Based On Drug Courier Profiles," Drug Law Report, Vol. II, No. 9, (May-June, 1989); "Sufficiency of Indictments," Criminal Defense Techniques, Vol. 1 (1989); co-author, "In Search of a Reasonable Suspicion on the Road to California: Stops, Searches and Seizures and the Drug Courier Profile,'" The Champion, Vol. II, No. 7, 1987; "Proposed Amendments to the Federal Rules on Admissibility of Scientific Evidence: A Defense Counsel's Perspective," 115 F.R.D. 121, 1987; "Immigration Implications for the Alien Defendant," The Champion, Vol. 10 Nos. 4, 5, 1986; "Survey of New Mexico Law, 1985-85: Crim. Law," 15 N.M.L. Rev., 231, 1985; "Defending the Political Client," The Champion, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1984; "Survey of New Mexico, 1981-1982: Crim. Law," 13 N.M.L. Rev. 323, 1983; Uptown: Poor Whites in Chicago, Harper & Row, 1970 (co-author).

Ms. Hollander was the Program Coordinator and faculty, University of Leiden, The Hague, Netherlands for Lawyers appearing at ICTY; Consultant, United Nations Development Programme, "Strengthening Vietnam's Supreme People's Procuracy," Hanoi, Vietnam, 1998; Program Coordinator, Russian Jury Trial Project, 1995-1997; member of faculty: Gerry Spence's Trial Lawyers' College, 1994-1998; National Institute for Trial Advocacy, 1982—; National Criminal Defense College, 1984—; Western Trial Advocacy Institute, 1985-1991; member, Board of Regents, National Criminal Defense College, 1985—; Reviewing Officer and Hearing Panel Member, Disciplinary Board, New Mexico Supreme Court, 1985—; New Mexico Board of Legal Specialization Recognized Specialist in Criminal Law).

Ms. Hollander speaks of her representation of one of the Guantanamo detainees, Mohammedu Ould Salahi.