Nancy Hollander is an internationally recognized US criminal defense lawyer in the firm of Freedman Boyd Hollander & Goldberg P. A. She is also an Associate Tenant at London’s Doughty Street Chambers, Of Counsel to the New York firm of Arshack, Hajek & Lehrman, and Of Counsel to the Geneva firm of Savolainen Avocats.

Ms. Hollander has been admitted to practice in the US Supreme Court, most US Courts of Appeal, US District Courts, the US Army Court of Criminal Appeals, the US Court of Appeals for the Armed Services and the State of New Mexico. She is also on the list of counsel for the International Criminal Court as well as the Department of Defense Pool of Qualified Civilian Defense Counsel for Military Commissions.

For more than four decades, Ms. Hollander’s practice has been largely devoted to representing individuals and organizations accused of crimes, including those involving national security issues, in trial and on appeal. She was lead appellate counsel for Chelsea Manning and won Ms. Manning’s release in 2017 when President Obama commuted her 35-year sentence to seven years. Ms. Hollander has also represented two prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, and in 2016, she won the release of one of them – Mohamedou Ould Slahi – who had been incarcerated for 14 years without charge. His story is chronicled in his New York Times bestselling book, Guantanamo Diary, which Ms. Hollander helped publish and in a feature film, The Mauritanian.

In addition to her criminal defense practice, Ms. Hollander has been counsel in civil cases, forfeitures, and administrative hearings, and she has argued and won an historic case involving religious freedom in the US Supreme Court. Ms. Hollander is counsel to cases in the European Court of Human Rights and the International Criminal Court.

She has created and taught in hundreds of trial practice programs in the US, internationally in Russia, Sweden, the UK, Portugal, Switzerland, France, Poland, Romania and for lawyers practicing in international criminal tribunals. She has also written extensively and conducted more than 200 seminars and presentations around the globe on various subjects, including the securing of evidence in international cases, forfeiture, illegal search and seizure, expert witnesses, defense of child abuse cases, ethics, evidence, and trial practice.

In 1992-93, Ms. Hollander was the first woman president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. She is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and on the Board of the Lawyers for the Rule of law. She has received many professional awards. Among them, in 2001, the National Law Journal named her as one of America’s top 50 women litigators. In 2006, the New Mexico Trial Lawyers Foundation selected her as Professional Lawyer of the year.

In 2016 Ms. Hollander received a Lifetime Achievement Award from America’s Top 100 Lawyers for New Mexico. She was chosen as Best Lawyers’ Albuquerque Criminal Defense Non-White Collar Lawyer of the Year in 2010, White Collar Lawyer of the Year in 2011, and General Practice Lawyer of the Year in in 2016. She was the cover story in the Spring 2021, “Women in the Law,” Best Lawyers Business Edition.