Sean M. Maher, Esq.

Partner

Sean Maher is a Partner of Wahid, Vizcaino & Maher LLP in the firm's Midtown Manhattan office. His practice focuses on criminal defense and civil litigation.  He has represented clients charged with a wide array of criminal activity, including murder, providing material support to terrorists, conspiracy to assassinate the President of the United States, fraud, money laundering, drug trafficking, and sex offenses.  Mr. Maher also provides representation for businesses and organizations facing federal and state investigation and prosecution. 

Before entering private practice, Mr. Maher was a supervising attorney at the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem.  Mr. Maher represented hundreds of clients facing felony and misdemeanor charges, ranging from infanticide, serial rape, and gang execution to minor drug possession and DUI.  Mr. Maher also handled hundreds of felony cases as a senior trial attorney at the Fulton County Public Defender's Office in Atlanta, Georgia.

Mr. Maher has served on the faculty of the Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy Litigation Persuasion Institute, the Southern Public Defender Training Center in Birmingham, Alabama, and the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council Trial Advocacy Program, including its Honors Program, and has been an invited speaker at Boston University, Brooklyn, Columbia, Fordham, and NYU law schools.

Mr. Maher received his B.A. from Northwestern University in 1991 and graduated cum laude from Boston University School of Law in 1995, where he was an Article Editor of the Boston University Law Review. While in law school, Mr. Maher interned at Kunstler & Kuby and the Office of Navajo Uranium Workers.

Mr. Maher is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and a co-chair of its National Security Committee. He is also a member of the New York Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the National Lawyers Guild.  He is member of the State and Federal Bars of New York, as well as the State Bar of Georgia and the District of Columbia.