Bredhoff & Kaiser, P.L.L.C.


Todd E. Edelman



	Todd E. Edelman focuses his practice on complex civil and criminal litigation, with a particular emphasis on trial practice. Since joining Bredhoff and Kaiser, Mr. Edelman has represented individuals in state and federal criminal prosecutions, and both plaintiffs and defendants in civil actions involving employment, labor law, employee benefit, contract, tort, and civil rights claims. He has also conducted independent investigations and counseled clients facing government investigation. From 1997 to 2005, Mr. Edelman was a trial attorney with the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia.

In that capacity, Mr. Edelman served as lead counsel in dozens of felony trials, including homicides, conspiracies, and other serious crimes. Mr. Edelman became a trial supervisor in 2001, and was Chief of the agency’s Serious Felony Section from 2002 to 2004. He served as the agency’s Training Director in 2004 and 2005, conducting intensive eight-week trial skills training courses for new staff attorneys and designing a comprehensive skills training program for all trial attorneys in the agency. Mr. Edelman regularly gives lectures and presentations on evidence and trial practice. He was a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center during the 2003-4 academic year, and has taught criminal trial litigation as an Adjunct Professor in the Law Center’s L.L. M. program since 2004. Mr. Edelman has served on the faculty of the Harvard Law School Trial Advocacy Workshop, the National Legal Aid and Defender Association Trial Advocacy College, and the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council Honors Program. He has lectured at numerous law schools, including Yale, Harvard, and George Washington University. Mr. Edelman is a cum laude graduate of Yale University and of the New York University School of Law, where he was a Root-Tilden Scholar. After graduating from law school, Mr. Edelman served as a law clerk to the Honorable William B. Bryant of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and then as an E. Barrett Prettyman Fellow in the Georgetown University Law Center’s Criminal Justice Clinic. He was named a Wasserstein Fellow by Harvard Law School in 2003. He is an elected member of the Steering Committee of the D.C. Bar’s Criminal Law and Individual Rights Section and serves on the Board of Directors of the Washington Council of Lawyers. Email Todd E. Edelman

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