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Nancy Hollander is an internationally recognized US criminal defense lawyer. For more than four decades, Ms. Hollander’s practice has been largely devoted to representing individuals and organizations accused of crimes, including those involving national security issues, in trial and on appeal. She won Chelsea Manning’s commutation in 2017 when President Obama commuted her 35 year sentence to seven years. Ms. Hollander has also represented two prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, and in 2016, she won the release of one of them – Mohamedou Ould Slahi – who had been incarcerated for 14 years without charge. His story is chronicled in his New York Times bestselling book, Guantanamo Diary, which Ms. Hollander helped publish and in a feature film, The Mauritanian. In addition to her criminal defense practice, she won an historic case involving religious freedom in the US Supreme Court. She has created and teaches in trial practice programs in the US and internationally. She has also written extensively and conducted more than 200 seminars and presentations around the globe. In 1992-93, Ms. Hollander was the first woman president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. She has also received many professional awards. Although Ms. Hollander is no longer taking cases, she is available to consult on significant matters of interest and assist her colleagues. She holds security clearances and can be reached at Nh@fbdlaw.com.