At ECBA Mr. Maazel has represented Martha Stewart, Friends of the High Line, the New York City Council, New York gubernatorial candidate Tom Golisano, the City of Mount Vernon, and a diverse array of commercial and civil rights clients. He has also served as class counsel or co-counsel to a putative class of millions of Americans subjected to illegal surveillance by the federal government, to a class of hundreds of disabled preschool children in a suit against the New York City and State Departments of Education, and to a class of thousands of inmates in New York City prisons in a suit against the New York City Department of Corrections. Mr. Maazel is a recipient of the Legal Aid Society's 2004 and 2005 Pro Bono Publico Awards, a 2001-02 recipient of a Coro Fellowship, Leadership New York, and received an Echoing Green Public Service Fellowship, awarded to “outstanding individuals who are committed to public service work.”

Mr. Maazel previously worked at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and at the Federal Defenders in the Eastern District of New York. He regularly writes and lectures on civil rights, First Amendment, education, and election law issues, and is a frequent commentator on civil rights issues in the national media.

Harvard University, B.A., magna cum laude, 1993, Harvard National Scholar (in recognition of “unusual academic, extracurricular and personal distinction”), Harvard Scholarship for “academic work of high distinction”

Co-counsel for Martha Stewart in United States v. Stewart.

Represented the estate of Kenneth Banks in a wrongful death/ police misconduct suit against the City of New York, in the first case in the Second Circuit to recognize “loss of life” damages in a civil rights case. See Banks v. Yokemick, 177 F.Supp.2d 239 (S.D.N.Y. 2001). The case settled with some defendants for $1.1 million; plaintiff won a jury verdict of $605,000 against the remaining defendant.

Represented a commercial seller in an action for specific performance of a $30 million real estate transaction.

Represented the New York City Council and Friends of the High Line in an action under the City Charter to preserve, restore, and convert the lower West Side elevated railway known as the High Line into a public promenade.

Won a landmark victory on behalf of a German citizen unlawfully arrested and beaten by the New York Police Department, in the first ever successful damages claim for violation of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. See Standt v. City of New York, 153 F.Supp.2d 417 (S.D.N.Y. 2001). 

"Civil Rights Action Against Private Actors," New York Law Journal, October 1, 2007

"Should I Take the ACD?" New York Law Journal, July 23, 2007

"Discoverability of Personnel Records in Section 1983 Cases," New York Law Journal, April 30, 2007

"Civil Rights Actions Arising from Wrongful Convictions," New York Law Journal, February 21, 2007

"Substantive Due Process Claims of Relatives in Wrongful Death Cases," New York Law Journal, January 10, 2007

"Emotional Damages in Civil Rights Cases," New York Law Journal, November 27, 2006

“Protecting the Rights of Domestic Violence Victims in the Workplace,” New York Law Journal, August 1, 2006 (with O. Andrew F. Wilson) 

“Closing the Billionaire Loophole,” Chicago Tribune, December 14, 2003

“Wrongful Death Actions Under Section 1983,” 19 Touro Law Review 707 (2003) (excerpt from the Practicing Law Institute's 18th Annual Section 1983 Civil Rights Litigation Program)

“Mulloche v. Netherlands: A Marshallian Discourse on Modern Europe,” 35 University of West Los Angeles Law Review 1 (2003)

“What Is the European Union?” 16 Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law 243 (2002)

“Why Civil Rights Lawsuits Do Not Deter Police Misconduct: The Conundrum of Indemnification and a Proposed Solution,” 28 Fordham Urban Law Journal 587 (2000) (with Richard D. Emery)