Lawrence A. Vogelman, Criminal Defense Attorney in Dover, New Hampshire

Lawrence A. Vogelman brings over 45 years of experience to Shaheen & Gordon. He joins the firm’s Personal Injury and Criminal Defense practice groups, focusing on civil rights, criminal defense and complex civil litigation.

As a trial lawyer, Larry has tried hundreds of cases to verdict and handled dozens of appeals in state and federal courts. He was certified to act as lead trial counsel in death penalty cases in the State of New York and has represented death row inmates around the country. As a trained and experienced mediator, Larry also mediates civil controversies in both state and federal courts.

Larry is a frequent lecturer in the areas of civil rights litigation and professional ethics, as well as virtually every area of criminal defense. For over 30 years, he has traveled around the country training law students and lawyers in trial advocacy. For the past two decades, he has been the co-editor of West’s treatise on eyewitness identification, originally authored by Judge Nathan Sobel.

Larry was born in Brooklyn, New York and is a graduate of Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. He is a 1973 graduate of Brooklyn Law School, where he was a member of the Law Review, Editor of the Moot Court Honor Society, and elected to the Order of the Barristers. While President of the New Hampshire Bar Association, Larry started to focus on providing legal assistance to veterans. The result has been the birth of the Veterans Law Project, Legal Boots on the Ground. The project provides legal assistance to active duty service members, veterans throughout New Hampshire, and their families.

The only Fellow of the American Board of Criminal Defense Lawyers in New Hampshire, Larry was also on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers for six years. He is a member of the American Association for Justice, the New Hampshire Association for Justice, the New Hampshire Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and a founding member of the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He is a Master Emeritus of the Daniel Webster Chapter of the American Inns of Court.

Before joining Shaheen & Gordon, Attorney Vogelman was a partner at Nixon, Vogelman, Slawsky & Simoneau, P.A. He came to New Hampshire from New York in 1994 and spent two years as deputy director of the New Hampshire Public Defender. Prior to that, Larry spent 15 years as a professor at Cardozo School of Law in New York, where he and Barry Scheck built the clinical and trial advocacy program. For over ten of those years, he and Professor Scheck were law partners in the firm Vogelman & Scheck.

Larry lives in Durham. He has three sons. When not trying to change the world “one case at a time,” Larry is a basketball referee and avid—albeit fair to middling—tennis player.

Publications

Sobel, Eyewitness Identification, West/Clark BoardmanUpdates and revision (1986–present)

The Big Black Man Syndrome: The Rodney King Trial and the Use ofRacial Stereotypes in the Courtroom, 20 Fordham Urban L.J. 571 (1993)

Reinstatement of Appeal — United States ex rel. Randazzo v. Follette, 38Brooklyn L. Rev. 1108 (1972)