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Lewin & Lewin, LLP - Nathan Lewin
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.
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.
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