Joseph A. Bondy is a federal criminal defense and cannabis business attorney in private practice in Manhattan.
The New York Times has called him “armed with the eloquent demeanor of a surgeon,” with an “oratorical intensity [that] hovers at the evangelistic.” A native New Yorker, Mr. Bondy is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, Columbia University, and Brooklyn Law School. He is admitted to practice law in New York State, the United States District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of New York, the District of Colorado, and the District of Connecticut, the United States Courts of Appeal for the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Circuits, and the Supreme Court of the United States.
Mr. Bondy has been privileged to represent nearly one thousand clients, from all walks of life, in all stages of litigation. His dedicated courtroom advocacy and written work have resulted repeatedly in dismissals, trial acquittals, and appellate reversals.
Mr. Bondy is a life member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), and a life member of the legal committee for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML). The American College of Trial Lawyers rates Mr. Bondy as one of the top 100 criminal trial attorneys in the United States. Mr. Bondy is also the Vice-President of the Cannabis Cultural Association (CCA), and founder of the cannabis law and policy livestream, In the Know 420. He advocates nationally on social justice, criminal law reform, and ending cannabis prohibition, and is a long-time faculty member at Cardozo Law School’s Intensive Trial Advocacy Program (ITAP).
