Nancy Hollander

Nancy Hollander is an internationally recognized US criminal defense lawyer. She is also an Associate Tenant at London’s Doughty Street Chambers and Of Counsel to the Geneva firm of Savolainen Avocats.

Ms. Hollander has been admitted to practice in the US Supreme Court, federal, state, and military courts. She is also on the list of counsel for the ICC as well as the DOJ Pool of Qualified Civilian Defense Counsel for Military Commissions.

For more than four decades, Ms. Hollander’s practice has largely been 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 she won Ms. Manning’s release in 2017 when President Obama commuted her sentence from 35 years 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 facilitate and 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 argued and won an historic case involving religious freedom in the US Supreme Court. Ms. Hollander has also served as a consultant to the defense in international cases.

She has created and taught in hundreds of trial practice programs in the US, internationally in Russia, Sweden, the UK, Portugal, Switzerland, France 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 also a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers. Ms. Hollander has also received many professional awards. Among them, in 2001, the National Law Journal named Ms. Hollander as one of America’s top 50 women litigators.

Ms. Hollander’s full CV can be found at https://fbdlaw.com/nancy_hollander/. She has security clearances and can be reached at [email protected]