Shelley R. Sadin

Practice Areas
Criminal Defense & White Collar Investigations
Litigation

 

Phone: (203) 332-5729
Email: ssadin@znclaw.com

Ms. Sadin joined Zeldes, Needle & Cooper in 1984.  She concentrates her practice on complex civil litigation (including antitrust and securities matters, and legal and accounting malpractice cases) criminal investigations, corporate compliance, regulatory matters, and criminal and civil trials and appeals.  Ms. Sadin has extensive experience representing individual and corporate clients in pre-litigation investigations, from federal grand jury matters and state criminal investigations to internal corporate investigations and compliance audits.  In 2004, she won a life verdict in one of the initial cases to be tried in the District of Connecticut under the Federal Death Penalty Act of 1994. 

At the appellate level, Ms. Sadin has handled civil and criminal appeals to the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and to the Connecticut Supreme and Appellate Courts as counsel to individual clients and as amicus and cooperating counsel to the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union and the Connecticut Criminal Defense Lawyers Association.  In the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and then the United States Supreme Court, she argued Connecticut Dept. of Public Safety v. Doe, 538 U.S. 1 (2003), rev’g 271 F.3d 38 (2001).  Her role in the Doe case earned her one of the National Law Journal’s 2003 awards for pro bono lawyer of the year. 

Ms. Sadin is listed in the 2008 edition of Best Lawyers In America for appellate law and white collar criminal defense, and in the 2008 Super Lawyers edition of Connecticut Magazine for white collar criminal defense. 

Ms. Sadin has held appointments on a number of committees serving judges of the District of Connecticut and the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, including the Federal Grievance Committee.  She is the Criminal Justice Act Representative for the District of Connecticut, and a member of the Connecticut Bar Association’s Federal Practice and Criminal Justice Sections, the Connecticut Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

• Yale College (1979)
• Georgetown University Law Center (1984)

• Connecticut (1984)
• U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut (1984)
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit (1984)
• U.S. Supreme Court (2002)

• Greater Bridgeport Bar Association
• Connecticut Bar Association
• Connecticut Criminal Defense Lawyers Association
• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
• Criminal Justice Act District Representative, District of Connecticut

• Sentencing Individuals Under The Guidelines:  The Vital Role of Background And Character Information, Federal Sentencing Reporter, Vol. II, No. 6 (May/June 1999)
• Where Have You Gone, Horace Rumpole?, The Champion, Vol. XXV, No. 4 (May 2001)

• Connecticut Dep’t of Public Safety v. Doe, 538 U.S. 1 (2003), rev’g, 271 F.3d 38 (2d Cir. 2002)
• United States v. Howard, 998 F.2d 42 (2d Cir. 1993)
• Golino v. City of New Haven, 950 F.2d 864 (2d Cir. 1991)
• United States v. Perez, 299 F.Supp. 2d 38 (D. Conn. 2004)
• United States v. Perez, 222 F.Supp. 2d 164 (D. Conn. 2002)
• Prisco v. Westgate Entertainment, 799 F.Supp. 266 (D. Conn. 1992)
• Ingels v. Saldana, 103 Conn. App. 724, 930 A.2d 774 (2007)
• LaPenta v. Bank One, N.A., 101 Conn. App. 730, 924 A.2d 868 (2007)
• Yang v. Veterans Chemicals, VACRS, 40 Conn. App. 936, 671 A.2d 869 (1996)
• State v. Woods, 234 Conn. 301, 662 A.2d 732 (1995)
• Lieberman v. Reliable Refuse Company, Inc., 212 Conn. 661, 563 A.2d 1013 (1989)