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Michael Bloch

Counsel

Kaplan Hecker & Fink


Michael Bloch is Counsel at Kaplan Hecker & Fink. He is an experienced trial attorney who spent over seven years as a public defender at the Bronx Defenders and three years as a litigation associate at Williams & Connolly LLP before joining Kaplan Hecker.

At Bronx Defenders, Michael represented hundreds of clients charged with criminal matters at all stages of litigation.  He has tried more than a dozen felony and misdemeanor cases to verdict and earned an acquittal or dismissal of all criminal charges in all but one case. In the past four years, he has tried seven cases to jury verdict – as lead counsel on five of them – and earned a full acquittal on all of them. Michael was a supervisor in the Bronx Defenders Criminal Defense Practice, a member of the Homicide Practice Group, and previously served as a supervisor of the Investigations Practice. Michael has conducted numerous trainings on trial advocacy and criminal defense investigations and was a member of the 2019 faculty for Harvard Law School’s Trial Advocacy Workshop.

Michael served as a law clerk to the Honorable Chief Judge Helen Ginger Berrigan on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana and subsequently to the Honorable Diane P. Wood on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

He is currently a member of the New York City Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Operations Committee and Mass Incarceration Task Force. His writings have appeared in the New York Times, USA Today and The Forward.