Life Member Directory

Life members are attorneys who have made an extraordinary commitment to support the work of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. By supporting NACDL at the highest dues level, they are accorded a lifetime membership as long as they continue to meet the standards for NACDL membership. In addition, they are listed in this special expanded life member directory, including bio and photograph, and receive a special award in recognition of their support for NACDL’s work.

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  • Bruce Udolf

    Bruce L. Udolf

    • Bruce L. Udolf, P.A.
    Defender Circle
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    For over 35 years, Bruce Udolf has served the American legal system as a white collar criminal trial lawyer.

    Upon graduation from Emory Law School in 1979, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Arthur W. Fudger, then as an Assistant District Attorney for the Northeastern Circuit of Georgia before his election as District Attorney in 1982.

    In 1987, he joined the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida, working in the appellate, major crimes, and narcotics sections of that office. In 1992, he became Chief of the Public Integrity/Corruption section of that office and served in that capacity for five years before being tapped as Associate Independent Counsel in the Whitewater investigation. This investigation, which focused on alleged activity involving a sitting U.S. President, captured national attention.

    During his years at DOJ, Bruce received multiple Outstanding Achievement Awards from the Department, as well as commendations from the United States Customs Service, Office of Internal Affairs, the Drug Enforcement Administration Office of Professional Responsibility, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and, in 1992 and 1994, from the Director of the FBI.

    In 1998, Bruce entered private practice, and eventually formed his own firm, Bruce L. Udolf P.A., in 2010. He has written and lectured extensively on numerous topics, including legal ethics and professionalism and has been a frequently sought-after speaker at legal conferences and symposia throughout the U.S. and abroad.

    Bruce has received the peer-reviewed rating of AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell for over ten years, and was named to the tier one ranking of U.S. News and World Report's Best Lawyer listings in the white collar and non-white collar criminal defense category. For four consecutive years, in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 he was named Lawyer of the Year in the area of Criminal and White Collar Criminal Defense in South Florida by Best Lawyers in America.

    In December, 2017, Mr. Udolf achieved an acquittal for his client, a former president of a national South American soccer federation in the so-called “FIFA-gate†case prosecuted in federal district court in Brooklyn.

    Education
    • Undergraduate: Hofstra University, BA, 1973
    • Law School: Emory University School of Law, Juris Doct, 1979
    Bar Information
    • 1982 United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit; 1983 United States Supreme Court; 1998
    Practice Areas
    • Corporate Compliance
    • Federal Practice
    • White Collar Crime
  • Keith Uhl

    Keith E. Uhl

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    1st Asst. US Attorney, US DOJLegislative Asst., US House of Rep.State Commissioner, Iowa Dept. of Environmental QualityAuthor, "Application of the Exclusionary Rule to Confessions Made During Mental Examination," Iowa Trial LawyerCo- Author, ABA Criminal Standards Project, The Legal Status of PrisonersNACDL 50th Anniversary Dinner Planning Committee
    Education
    • Undergraduate: George Washington University, , 1969
    • Graduate: George Washington University, , 1972
    Bar Information
    • 8th Cir., DC Cir.
    Practice Areas
    • Controlled Substances
    • Federal Practice
  • Victor Valdes

    Victor M. Valdes

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    Ed. D., Univ. of Kentucky, LexingtonMA Public Administrator, Golden Gate Univ.Member, ABAMember, TCDLAMember, San Antonio Bar Assn.Retired, United States Army Officer
    Education
    • Undergraduate: University of Puerto Rico, , 1967
    • Law School: Suffolk Law School, , 1974
    Bar Information
    • US Supreme Ct., 5th Cir., Ct. of Veterans Appeals
    Practice Areas
    • Appellate Advocacy
    • Controlled Substances
    • DUI
    • Federal Practice
  • Glenn Valdez

    Glenn Smith Valdez

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  • David Valentini

    David L. Valentini

    • Valentini Law, P.A.
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    Member, Minnesota Society for Criminal JusticeMember, Minnesota Assn. of Criminal Defense LawyersMember, Minnesota Trial Lawyers Assn.Member, National College of DUI DefenseListed, Best Lawyers, Minnesota Monthly MagazineListed, Top 40 Criminal Law Super Lawyers, Minnesota Law and Politics Magazine and Mpls. St. Paul MagazineListed, Minnesota Super Lawyers, "Minnesota Law and Politics" magazine and Mpls St. Paul Magazine
    Education
    • Undergraduate: University of Minnesota , , 1974
    • Law School: Hamline University Law School , 1977
    Practice Areas
    • Controlled Substances
    • DUI
  • Susan Van Dusen

    Susan W. Van Dusen

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    Biography
    Practice Areas
    • White Collar Crime
  • R. VanDervort

    R. Clarke VanDervort

    • West Virginia Southern District Court - Bluefield, WV
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    Member, Phi Beta KappaMember, WV Bar Assn.Life Member, WV Bar FoundationMember, Ohio State Bar Assn.Honorable Discharge, US Marine Corps, Combat Veteran of VietnamUS Magistrate Judge (2001)
    Education
    • Undergraduate: Ohio University, , 1975
    • Law School: West Virginia University College of Law , , 1986
    Bar Information
    • 4th & 6th Cir. Ct. of Appeals, Northern Dist. of WV, Southern Dist. of WV, Southern Dist. of Ohio, U
  • Vinoo Varghese

    Vinoo P. Varghese

    • Principal, Varghese & Associates, P.C.
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    Biography
    Practice Areas
    • Appellate Advocacy
    • Controlled Substances
    • DUI
    • Federal Practice
    • Forfeiture
    • Sex Crimes
    • White Collar Crime
  • Kaliopi Vasiliou

    Kaliopi Vasiliou

    • Owner of Vasiliou Law
    Biography
    Practice Areas
    • Controlled Substances
    • DUI
    • Immigration
    • Sex Crimes
  • Joy Vastola

    Joy L. Vastola

    • Ferro, Kuba, Mangano & Sklyar
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    Biography
    Member, NY State Assn. of Criminal Defense LawyersRecipient, NACDL President's Commendation Award
    Education
    • Undergraduate: Muhlenberg College, , 1982
    • Law School: Fordham Law School, , 1985
  • D. Venie

    D. Chipman Venie

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    Biography
    Education
    • Undergraduate: Virginia Tech, B.A., 1993
    • Graduate: Virginia Tech, MURP, 1995
    • Law School: University of Virginia School of Law, JD, 1999
  • Jack Venturi

    Jack Venturi

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    Certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy as a Criminal Trial AdvocateMember, Assn. of Criminal Defense Lawyers, New JerseyMember, NJ State Bar Assn.Member, of Middlesex Co. Bar Assn.Lecturer, ICLE; ACDL-NJ; and Office of the Public DefenderListed, Super Lawyers of New JerseyListed, Top 100 Trial Lawyers of NJ, American Trial Lawyers Assn.Recipient, 10 Leaders of Northern NJ Criminal Defense Law
    Education
    • Undergraduate: New York University School of Law, , 1975
    • Law School: New York University School of Law, 1975
    Bar Information
    • Fedl. Dist. Ct., 3rd Cir., US Supreme Ct.
    Practice Areas
    • Capital Defense
    • Controlled Substances
    • DUI
    • Juvenile Defense
    • Sex Crimes
    • White Collar Crime
  • Cynthia Vermeulen

    Cynthia J. Vermeulen

    • Attorney, Vermeulen Law Office, P.A.
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    • Vancouver, WA
    Biography
  • Stormy Vickers

    Stormy Vickers

    • Vickers Law
    Biography
    Practice Areas
    • Controlled Substances
    • DUI
    • Federal Practice
    • Juvenile Defense
    • Mental Health Defense
    • Mitigation Specialist
    • Public Defense
    • Sex Crimes
  • Thomas Viloria

    Thomas E. Viloria

    • Viloria, Oliphant, Oster & Aman L.L.P.
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    Biography
    Practice Areas
    • Controlled Substances
    • DUI
    • Sex Crimes
    • White Collar Crime
  • James Voyles

    James H. Voyles

    • Voyles Vaiana Lukemeyer Baldwin & Webb
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    Biography
    Member, Board of Managers, Indianapolis Bar Assn.President, Indianapolis Bar Assn.Vice-President, Indianapolis Bar Assn.President-Elect, Indianapolis Bar Assn. (2009)Member, Board of Directors, NACDL (2007)Member, The Amer. Coll. of Criminal LawyersMember, Indiana Supreme Ct. Comm. on Character and FitnessFellow, American Coll. of Trial LawyersRecipient,Best Lawyers in America (1985-Present)
    Education
    • Undergraduate: Illinois College, , 1965
    • Law School: Indiana University School of Law, 1968
    Practice Areas
    • DUI
    • Federal Practice
    • White Collar Crime
  • Michael Waddington

    Michael S. Waddington

    • Gonzalez & Waddington, LLC
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    Social Media
    Biography
    Michael is a criminal defense lawyer and former Army JAG attorney. He has defended cases in courtrooms worldwide, including in Japan, South Korea, Germany, Iraq, Bahrain, Italy, England, and the United States. He has defended some of the highest-profile court-martial cases from the “War on Terror" and has been reported on and quoted by hundreds of major media sources worldwide.
    Michael is a Life Member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) and a Fellow of the American Board of Criminal Lawyers (ABCL). He is licensed to practice law in Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and South Carolina. He has lectured on trial strategy and cross-examination at national CLE events, including NACDL, the National Trial Lawyers Summit, and Gideon’s Promise.

    Michael has provided consultation services to CNN, 60 Minutes, ABC Nightline, the BBC, CBS, and the Golden Globe-winning TV series, The Good Wife. He appeared in a CNN documentary, Killings at the Canal. Some of his cases have inspired books and movies, including the Academy Award-winning documentary Taxi to the Dark Side, the documentary The Kill Team, and Brian De Palma’s Redacted. Since 2013, Mr. Waddington has written chapters in the American Bar Association's annual publication, The State of Criminal Justice. He authored the following books: 
    • Pattern Cross-Examination Questions for DNA & Biological Evidence
    • Pattern Cross-Examination Questions for Sexual Assault Cases
    • Pattern Cross-Examination for Expert Witnesses
    • Exposing Toxic Manipulators
    • Pattern Cross-Examination for Digital Forensic Experts
    • The Art of Trial Warfare: Winning at Trial Using Sun Tzu’s The Art of War
    • The Art of Trial Warfare Volume II: Applying Sun Tzu’s The Art of War to Modern Litigation
    • Kick-Ass Closings: A Guide to Giving the Best Closing Argument of Your Life
    • Battlemind: A Military Legal Thriller
    Education
    • Undergraduate: Duquesne University, BA, 1997
    • Law School: Temple University School of Law, JD, 2000
    Bar Information
    • FL, PA, NJ, GA, SC - All military courts worldwide
    Practice Areas
    • Federal Practice
    • International
    • Military Defense
    • Military Justice
    • Sex Crimes
    • White Collar Crime
  • Ian Wallach

    Ian M. Wallach

    • The Law Offices of Ian Wallach, PC
    Defender Circle
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    Ian Wallach practices nationally but predominantly in Los Angeles (he is licensed before the states of California, Colorado, and New York). About 90% of his practice is state and federal criminal defense, and the remainder is devoted to (usually two) criminal defense related civil rights actions. Ian is a member of the CJA panel for the Central District of California and also devotes substantial time providing pro bono representation. 

     

    Ian is a life member of NACDL and presently serving his third three-year term on the Board of Directors. He is a co-chair for the NACDL Task Force for Police Accountability and also serves on NACDL’s membership committee, and co-chairs NACDL’s annual “Defending Modern Drug Crimes” seminar in Las Vegas. Ian is also a frequent presenter at CLE events, focusing on how to use inherent police officer bias against defendants to that client’s advantage. 

     

    In the late 1990s, Ian served as a law clerk in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia where he participated in drafting the indictment of Slobodan Milosevic. He subsequently represented Guantanamo Bay detainees in connection with the Center for Constitutional Rights challenging their unlawful detention. He then spent 5 years in general commercial litigation, predominantly with the firm of Luce, Forward, Hamilton, and Scripps, LLP (now Venable, LLP). Realizing that trial practice and representing the disenfranchised was his calling, he left the corporate world in 2005 to join the Los Angeles County Office of the Public Defender. In 2010 he returned to private practice to be able to work in both federal and state court and on criminal defense and civil rights matters. 

     

    In December of 2023, along with NACDL Board Member Katherine (“Kacey”) McBroom, following a three and a ½ month pro bono trial in Joshua Tree California, Ian and Kacey secured full acquittals in People v. Pedro Martinez, an eleven-count life case with allegations reminiscent of McMartin and Stoll, where a completely innocent and randomly targeted high school janitor was charged with multiple counts of child sexual assault and alleged to have committed hundreds of such acts. The acquittal received international media attention. Ian and Kacey are now bringing the federal civil rights action on behalf of Mr. Martinez against the prosecutor and officers who fabricated the evidence that resulted in Mr. Martinez’ almost five years of extended pre-trial detention. At present, the court has determined that – for the time being – the absolute immunity protections usually afforded to all prosecutors may not be applicable and the case against the prosecutor and the police officers goes forward. 

     

    Ian has had substantial success in the civil rights arena, settling the cases of In Re Dontre Hamilton v. Milwaukee Case (in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) and Barry Montgomery v. LASD (In Los Angleles, Calfornia) (both with Jovan Blacknell of California) and Raul Martinez v. LASD (in Los Angeles, CA) (as co-counsel with Neufeld, Scheck, Brustin. Hoffmann &, Freudenberger, LLP), all for record-setting recoveries. 

     

    Ian successfully argued the case of Edison v. United States, 822 F.3d 510 (9th Cir. 2016), securing the rights of inmates to sue the United States for harms arising in custodial settings at facilities contracted out to third parties, and was the first lawyer to obtain a substantial settlement for claims arising out of Valley Fever infections in Eastern California, where the Government knew of the danger such housing posed to individuals of certain ethnic groups but disregarded those dangers.  

     

     Ian is ever-thankful to NACDL and its efforts to ensure the values and goes enshrined in its mission statement.

    Education
    • Undergraduate: University of Oregon, Bachelor of Arts, 1996
    • Law School: U.C. Hastings College of Law, Juris Doctor, 1999
    Bar Information
    • Many
    Practice Areas
    • Controlled Substances
    • DUI
    • Federal Practice
    • International
    • Sex Crimes
  • Sanford Wallack

    Sanford A. Wallack

    • Wallack Law
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    Biography
    Life MemberGeorgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (Life Member)National Criminal Defense College
    Education
    • Undergraduate: University of Florida, B.A., 1991
    • Law School: Emory University School of Law, J.D., 1994
    Practice Areas
    • Appellate Advocacy
    • Capital Defense
    • Controlled Substances
    • Federal Practice
    • White Collar Crime
  • William Walraven

    William Walraven

    • Law Offices of William Walraven
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    Biography
    Practice Areas
    • DUI
  • Lawrence Walsh

    Lawrence A. Walsh

    • Lawrence A. Walsh, Law Offices
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    Biography
    Education
    • Undergraduate: St. Mary's University at San Antonio, BA, 1976
    • Law School: St. Mary's University School of Law, JD, 1978
    Practice Areas
    • Controlled Substances
    • Federal Practice
    • Forfeiture Reform
    • International
    • White Collar Crime
  • Harry Warden

    Harry Warden

    • Law Office of Harry Warden
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    Social Media
    Biography
    Practice Areas
    • Appellate Advocacy
    • Controlled Substances
    • Corporate Compliance
    • DUI
    • Federal Practice
    • Forfeiture
    • White Collar Crime
  • Michael Warren

    Michael W. Warren

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    Biography
    Lead counsel, 2002 - vacating convictions of Central Park Five; member of legal team that secured $41 million settlement against City of New York- Kings County (NY), Judicial Friends award- National Lawyers Guild award- Finalist - Public Justice Righting Wrongs 2015 "Lawyer of the Year" award, based on work in Central Park Five case
    Education
    • Undergraduate: Duquesne University School of Law, JD, 1973
    • Law School: Duquesne University School of Law, JD, 1973
    Practice Areas
    • Federal Practice
  • Robin Waters

    Robin V. Waters

    • Loeb & Loeb
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    Biography
    Practice Areas
    • Appellate Advocacy
    • Federal Practice
    • Juvenile Defense
    • White Collar Crime
  • Herman Watson

    Herman A. Watson

    • Watson Law Office P.C.
    Contact Information
    Biography

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