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Law Firms - Criminal Law

Yair Gaulan – Law Firm

air Gaulan – Law Firm has been one of

Israel’s leading and most influential

criminal law firms for many years. The

firm believes that being a defense attorney is a

mission, stemming from the perception of the

great importance of a defense attorney as the

most basic condition of ensuring defendants’

rights and avoiding faulty or imbalanced legal

results. The firm’s attorneys commit themselves

to uncompromising legal representation, and to

personal services throughout the legal proceed-

ings. The team studies, analyses and deepens

into questions quid juris quid facti (of law and of

fact), with a wide perspective and a creative ap-

proach, while believing this will enable original,

balanced and just results. Advs. Yair Gaulan and

Dr. Nachshon Shohat combine daily representa-

tion of the accused in courts with vast public-

volunteer work in order to influence legislation

and ensure proper defense of rights of the ac-

cused, as well as academic activity (lectures and

research).

Yair Gaulan Law Firm – History and

Achievements

The firm was founded by Adv. Yair Gaulan in

1978. Adv. Gaulan became one of the most

successful, leading influential defense attor-

neys in Israel. Dr. Nachshon Shohat interned

at the firm (1999) and later became a partner.

Over the years the firm represented cases of the

greatest public and legal importance, alongside

hundreds of “regular” cases – both light and

heavy – which required the professional atti-

tude and the devotion to the clients’ affairs and

distresses.

The firm is proud to have been involved in

many precedents, in which its ability to conduct

in-depth research has prevented grave miscar-

riages of justice (including extraordinary suc-

cesses regarding correcting false convictions at

the appeal stage, including murder cases). The

firm’s activity contributed to shape fundamental

laws in the criminal, essential and deliberative

legal field. Adv. Gaulan and Nachshon repre-

sented several principal precedential cases

such as the Supreme Court “diaries” decision

balancing the defendant’s right to review in-

vestigative material and the accuser’s right to

their privacy; an additional deliberation at the

Supreme Court in front of 11 judges about the

definition of “public worker” regarding a bribe

offense; several principally important cases

regarding interpretation of 113 amendment of

the penal code (discretion in penalty) and au-

thority to digress from the “appropriate penal

area”; cases regarding freedom of speech and

sedition offense; major cases regarding bribe

and breach of trust; several precedential cases

involving extradition, and more.

Fields of Expertise

The firm has vast experience in all aspects of

criminal law, including grave cases, murder

offenses, economic offenses, “white collar”

violations, money laundering, bribe and breach

of trust, extradition and international crimes,

drug offenses, youth offenses, etc. The firm

advises and represents throughout the proce-

dures: advise before and during investigation;

arrest proceedings; hearing proceedings prior

to indictment; pardon or registration removal

requests; legal proceedings and extradition pro-

ceedings. The firm is especially experienced in

representation in front of the Supreme Court.

Adv. Yair Gaulan

• Adv. Gaulan interned and worked in adv. Sh-

lomo Tusia’s firm. In 1978 he founded his firm

and realized his vision in his unique manner.

• Member of the Criminal Law Arrangements

Committee (Arbel Committee) appointed by

the Minister of Justice – a standing committee

comprised of judges, senior academia repre-

sentatives and select attorneys, dealing with

legislation propositions regarding criminal law.

• Served on the committee of examining the

weight of judicial opinion in handing down sen-

tences, headed by Supreme Court Judge Eliezer

Goldberg. Adv. Gaulan wrote the minorities

view.

• Served on the Ministry of Justice Committee

for amending the evidence law (protecting chil-

dren) of the Ministry of Law.

• Member of the Ministry of Justice’s Commit-

tee for investigating and witnessing for the

disabled.

• Examiner in the Israel Bar’s oral exams, in-

terns’ acceptance exams.

• Adv. Gaulan believes in the importance of

teaching criminal law principles pertaining to

the practical work of the defense attorney to

lawyers and law students. A lecturer at the He-

brew University of Jerusalem.

• Many lectures to various professional

entities.

• Lectures at educational programs for the IDF.

Adv. Dr. Nachshon Shohat

• Ph.D. from the Faculty of Law at Haifa Univer-

sity. Dissertation: “The moral and legal duty to

protect the innocent from false-prosecution:

an analytic-critical study of the normative and

procedural obligations deriving from the legal

system” (2015).

• Graduate (magna cum laude) Law and Eco-

nomics and a M.A. (summa cum laude) from

Haifa University. Certified lawyer since 2000.

• Deputy Chairman of the Criminal Law Forum

of the Bar Association to the Knesset’s Consti-

tution, Law and Justice Committee. Has been

a representative of the Israeli bar in the com-

mittee’s discussions of the Knesset regarding

criminal law legislation since 2007.

• 2005-2013 Member of the National Ethics

Committee of the Israel Bar.

• Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Haifa

University.

• IDF Lt-Colonel (Res.) Served as a Company

Commander in the Paratroopers Regiment).

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18 Hillel St., Jerusalem 9458118

Tel:

972-2-6244204

Fax:

972-2-6251360

gyair@barak-online.net

Esta b l i s h e d

1978

L i n e o f b u s i n ess

Law Firm specializing mainly in Criminal

Law

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