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When the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers was founded, Donald Vogelman was there — a charter member of the organization that now anchors the state’s defense bar. Admitted in 1977, he has spent nearly half a century trying criminal cases in New York’s state and federal courts, more than a hundred of them by his own count, while teaching trial advocacy to the next generation on the faculty of Cardozo Law School’s intensive program.
At a Glance
| Firm | Donald H. Vogelman, Attorney At Law |
| Principal Attorney | Donald H. Vogelman |
| Office | 260 Madison Avenue, 22nd Floor, New York, NY 10016 (Midtown Manhattan) |
| Focus | Criminal defense in New York’s federal and state courts — murder, weapons, drug, and white-collar charges through the full criminal spectrum, plus DWI |
| Admissions | New York (1977); U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York (1982) |
| Education | J.D., University at Buffalo School of Law — SUNY (1976) |
| Teaching | Faculty, Intensive Trial Advocacy Program, Cardozo School of Law |
| Fee Structure | Initial consultation by phone or email |
Career History
Vogelman graduated from Buffalo Law in 1976, was admitted in New York in 1977, and added the Southern and Eastern District federal courts in 1982 — a practice now approaching its fiftieth year. His professional anchors are institutional: charter membership in the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, membership in the New York Criminal Bar Association, the Bronx County Bar Association, and the New York State Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section, and a teaching post on the faculty of Cardozo Law School’s Intensive Trial Advocacy Program — where practicing lawyers train law students in the courtroom craft. He reports representing numerous clients pro bono over his career, and has held Super Lawyers selection continuously from 2020 through 2025.
Practice Concentration
The practice is criminal defense across the full spectrum — murder, weapons offenses, drug charges, white-collar matters, and DWI — in both federal and state courts throughout New York. It is a deliberately traditional model: one senior trial lawyer, decades of accumulated bench and adversary familiarity, investigators retained case by case, and a stated philosophy that some cases should be tried rather than settled. His materials emphasize custom-built defense strategy and full personal attention over volume processing.
Track Record
Vogelman states he has tried more than one hundred cases with an eighty percent trial success rate — figures we attribute as the firm’s own claims, since no independent dispositions ledger exists to verify them; the claim is at least consistent with a career structure (charter defense-bar membership, a trial-advocacy teaching post, five consecutive Super Lawyers selections late in his career) that would be difficult to assemble without genuine courtroom results. Past results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future case.
Client Voice
This is the profile’s thinnest section, and we say so plainly: our research located no meaningful base of published consumer reviews for this practice — no populated Avvo, Google, or Yelp review record of the kind this category’s volume firms accumulate. That absence is consistent with a referral-driven senior practice, but it means the ordinary client experience cannot be independently assessed from public sources; prospective clients should ask directly for references. This research did not surface any public disciplinary findings across his forty-nine years at the bar.
Beyond the Courtroom
The Cardozo teaching post is the standout entry — a working trial lawyer returning to the classroom to train students in advocacy — alongside his self-reported pro bono representation of clients who could not afford to pay, and the charter-member service that helped build the state’s organized defense bar.
Recognition
Sorting per our standard: the Cardozo faculty appointment and the NYSACDL charter membership are institutional credentials; the Super Lawyers selections (2020–2025, with Criminal Defense, White Collar, and DUI/DWI designations) are peer-informed recognition from a commercial publication, not certification. A disclosure we apply to every New York profile: New York State does not operate a board certification program for legal specialties comparable to the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, so no New York attorney profile on this site will describe its subject as a state-certified specialist, and this profile attributes no certification to Vogelman.
New York Legal Backdrop
A New York criminal case moves on statutory clocks that defendants rarely know exist. After arrest, arraignment generally must occur within about twenty-four hours; a felony defendant held on bail must be released under CPL § 180.80 if the prosecution fails to secure grand jury action within the statutory period (120 hours, or 144 hours spanning a weekend or holiday). CPL § 30.30 sets speedy-trial clocks — six months on most felonies, ninety days on class A misdemeanors — that run against the prosecution and can end a case outright. New York’s discovery reform, CPL Article 245, obligates prosecutors to turn over their evidence on an automatic timetable, and CPL § 160.59 permits sealing of up to two eligible convictions after a ten-year crime-free period. For a defendant weighing a plea against a trial, the calculus depends on counsel’s genuine willingness and ability to try the case — the leverage that a hundred-trial career is built to supply. None of this is legal advice; consult a licensed New York attorney about your situation.
Awesome Attorneys Assessment
The case for Vogelman is seniority of the rarest kind: forty-nine years at the New York bar, a claimed hundred-plus trials, charter standing in the state’s defense-bar institution, a trial-advocacy teaching post, and continuous recent peer recognition — a résumé that reads like the category’s institutional memory.
The honest trade-offs, stated plainly: this is a solo practice at the far end of a long career, and clients should ask directly about capacity, succession on lengthy matters, and who covers court dates; the hundred-trial and eighty-percent figures are self-reported and unverifiable from public sources; there is no prosecutorial background in the record; and the published consumer-review base is effectively empty, as disclosed above — the most review-sparse profile in this category, offset by institutional rather than consumer evidence.
Methodology & Sourcing
This profile was researched and written independently by Awesome Attorneys in August 2026 without the participation, sponsorship, or payment of Donald H. Vogelman, Attorney At Law. Primary sources: the attorney’s website (donaldvogelmannyattorney.com), including its about, criminal-law, attorney-profile, and office pages (100+ trials and 80% success-rate claims, attributed above as the firm’s own; office address; 1977 New York and 1982 federal admissions; association memberships). Independent verification: Super Lawyers profile (Buffalo Law 1976; 1977 admission; 2020–2025 selections; Cardozo Intensive Trial Advocacy Program faculty listing; charter NYSACDL membership; pro bono statement; practice designations); NYSACDL member directory (current membership); LawInfo and FindLaw listings. The absence of a published consumer-review base is disclosed in Client Voice. Statutes cited in the New York Legal Backdrop were verified against the New York Criminal Procedure Law (§§ 30.30, 160.59, 180.80, and Article 245).
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