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Nathan Lewin
Nathan Lewin has engaged in trial and appellate litigation in federal and state courts for 40 years. While he was
an Assistant to the Solicitor General in the Department of Justice under Solicitors General Archibald Cox and
Thurgood Marshall, he argued 12 cases before the Supreme Court for the United States. Since entering private
practice he has argued in the Supreme Court another 15 times, for a total of 27 arguments in the Supreme
Court. His Supreme Court cases have included the representation of banks and other commercial interests as
well as criminal cases and issues of constitutional law. Mr. Lewin was law clerk to Chief Judge J. Edward
Lumbard of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1960-1961) and to Associate Justice John
M. Harlan of the Supreme Court of the United States (1961-1962). Mr. Lewin also served as Deputy Assistant
Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, and before that as Deputy Administrator
of the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs at the Department of State. On leaving government service, Mr.
Lewin was a founding partner of Miller Cassidy Larroca and Lewin, which was one of the nation's foremost
litigation "boutiques" for more than thirty years.
Mr. Lewin's individual clients have included Attorney General Edwin Meese III in an Independent Counsel
investigation; former President Richard Nixon in the Supreme Court case testing the constitutionality of the taking
of Presidential papers and tapes; actress Jodie Foster in the prosecution of John Hinckley; performer John
Lennon in the successful appeal of his immigration case; Barnett Bank to establish in the Supreme Court the
right to sell discounted trademark merchandise; and national Jewish organizations on religious liberty issues.
He has been listed in Best Lawyers in America since its first editions in the areas of Criminal Defense,
Business Litigation, and First Amendment Law, and was included in "Washington's Best 75 Lawyers" in the April
2002 Washingtonian magazine.
In 1974-1975 Mr. Lewin was Visiting Professor at the Harvard Law School, teaching Advanced Constitutional
Law (First Amendment Litigation), appellate advocacy, and the first formal course ever given in a national law
school on the Subject of "Defense of White-Collar Crime." He teaches a seminar in Supreme Court litigation at
Columbia Law School. He has been Adjunct Professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown Law School and at
the University of Chicago Law School, and taught Jewish Civil Law at George Washington University Law School
in 1998 and 2001. He was also an author and Contributing Editor to The New Republic between 1970 and
1991. His articles on the law and the Supreme Court have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles
Times, Newsday, Saturday Review, The Washington Post, and other periodicals.
Mr. Lewin was president of the American Section of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists
from 1992 to 1997. Between 1982 and 1984 he served as President of the Jewish Community Council of
Greater Washington, which speaks for approximately 220 Jewish organizations and synagogues in the Greater
Washington area.
He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, New York, the Supreme Court of the United States, all
federal appellate circuits, and many United States District Courts. He received his B.A. summa cum laude from
Yeshiva College in 1957, and earned his J.D. magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1960, where he
was treasurer of the Harvard Law Review.
Encyclopedia Judaica- Nathan Lewin
an Assistant to the Solicitor General in the Department of Justice under Solicitors General Archibald Cox and
Thurgood Marshall, he argued 12 cases before the Supreme Court for the United States. Since entering private
practice he has argued in the Supreme Court another 15 times, for a total of 27 arguments in the Supreme
Court. His Supreme Court cases have included the representation of banks and other commercial interests as
well as criminal cases and issues of constitutional law. Mr. Lewin was law clerk to Chief Judge J. Edward
Lumbard of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1960-1961) and to Associate Justice John
M. Harlan of the Supreme Court of the United States (1961-1962). Mr. Lewin also served as Deputy Assistant
Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, and before that as Deputy Administrator
of the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs at the Department of State. On leaving government service, Mr.
Lewin was a founding partner of Miller Cassidy Larroca and Lewin, which was one of the nation's foremost
litigation "boutiques" for more than thirty years.
Mr. Lewin's individual clients have included Attorney General Edwin Meese III in an Independent Counsel
investigation; former President Richard Nixon in the Supreme Court case testing the constitutionality of the taking
of Presidential papers and tapes; actress Jodie Foster in the prosecution of John Hinckley; performer John
Lennon in the successful appeal of his immigration case; Barnett Bank to establish in the Supreme Court the
right to sell discounted trademark merchandise; and national Jewish organizations on religious liberty issues.
He has been listed in Best Lawyers in America since its first editions in the areas of Criminal Defense,
Business Litigation, and First Amendment Law, and was included in "Washington's Best 75 Lawyers" in the April
2002 Washingtonian magazine.
In 1974-1975 Mr. Lewin was Visiting Professor at the Harvard Law School, teaching Advanced Constitutional
Law (First Amendment Litigation), appellate advocacy, and the first formal course ever given in a national law
school on the Subject of "Defense of White-Collar Crime." He teaches a seminar in Supreme Court litigation at
Columbia Law School. He has been Adjunct Professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown Law School and at
the University of Chicago Law School, and taught Jewish Civil Law at George Washington University Law School
in 1998 and 2001. He was also an author and Contributing Editor to The New Republic between 1970 and
1991. His articles on the law and the Supreme Court have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles
Times, Newsday, Saturday Review, The Washington Post, and other periodicals.
Mr. Lewin was president of the American Section of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists
from 1992 to 1997. Between 1982 and 1984 he served as President of the Jewish Community Council of
Greater Washington, which speaks for approximately 220 Jewish organizations and synagogues in the Greater
Washington area.
He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, New York, the Supreme Court of the United States, all
federal appellate circuits, and many United States District Courts. He received his B.A. summa cum laude from
Yeshiva College in 1957, and earned his J.D. magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1960, where he
was treasurer of the Harvard Law Review.
Encyclopedia Judaica- Nathan Lewin
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Alyza D. Lewin
Alyza D. Lewin specializes in litigation and government relations. She currently practices law together with her
father, Nathan Lewin, at Lewin & Lewin, LLP. Her work involves criminal defense and civil litigation matters. Her
clients include individuals and corporations under investigation by the Department of Justice for matters
including (but not limited to) tax-fraud, mail-fraud, export-control act violations, and money-laundering. Ms. Lewin
also represents clients who have been denied security clearance before the Defense Office of Hearing and
Appeals. In addition, Ms. Lewin represents government employees who are subjects of inquiries relating to their
official duties. Her achievements include: convincing the Department of Justice not to indict a client investigated
for tax-fraud; lobbying the United States Congress on behalf of (and ultimately gaining passage of) a law to
assist the family of an American-Israeli soldier missing in action; and filing the first lawsuit under the anti-
terrorism laws on behalf of American victims of terror against organizations based in the United States that
provide material support to international terrorist groups. Prior to establishing Lewin & Lewin, Ms. Lewin worked
at Wilmer Cutler and Pickering (now WilmerHale) and at Miller Cassidy Larroca and Lewin.
Ms. Lewin began her law career in Israel where she clerked on the Supreme Court for Deputy President Justice
Menachem Elon. She is Executive Vice President of the American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists.
She served on the Board of Directors of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington from 2001-2007.
She served on the Board of Directors of the Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia from 2001-
2004.
Ms. Lewin is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and in New York. She received her B.A. from
Princeton University in 1988 and a J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1992. She is married to
Eliezer M. Halbfinger and has four children.
father, Nathan Lewin, at Lewin & Lewin, LLP. Her work involves criminal defense and civil litigation matters. Her
clients include individuals and corporations under investigation by the Department of Justice for matters
including (but not limited to) tax-fraud, mail-fraud, export-control act violations, and money-laundering. Ms. Lewin
also represents clients who have been denied security clearance before the Defense Office of Hearing and
Appeals. In addition, Ms. Lewin represents government employees who are subjects of inquiries relating to their
official duties. Her achievements include: convincing the Department of Justice not to indict a client investigated
for tax-fraud; lobbying the United States Congress on behalf of (and ultimately gaining passage of) a law to
assist the family of an American-Israeli soldier missing in action; and filing the first lawsuit under the anti-
terrorism laws on behalf of American victims of terror against organizations based in the United States that
provide material support to international terrorist groups. Prior to establishing Lewin & Lewin, Ms. Lewin worked
at Wilmer Cutler and Pickering (now WilmerHale) and at Miller Cassidy Larroca and Lewin.
Ms. Lewin began her law career in Israel where she clerked on the Supreme Court for Deputy President Justice
Menachem Elon. She is Executive Vice President of the American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists.
She served on the Board of Directors of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington from 2001-2007.
She served on the Board of Directors of the Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia from 2001-
2004.
Ms. Lewin is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and in New York. She received her B.A. from
Princeton University in 1988 and a J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1992. She is married to
Eliezer M. Halbfinger and has four children.