Ben Maoz – Law Offices

Ben Maoz’s law firm has been ranked consecutively every year, by prestigious and official legal rankings, as one of Israel’s leading and best-known criminal law firms.

Over the years, the firm grew at a meteoric rate as it successfully represented public officials, celebrities and everyday people in the most complex and publicized criminal affairs, and established its position as leader in its practice area.

The firm’s team fights for its numerous clients also in cases which are perceived as “hopeless” while finding create legal solutions for particularly complex and difficult cases. Many of the cases where Adv. Maoz represented raised lively public discussions, and some of them even led to im-portant social changes, legislation amendments and legal precedents in the Israeli law.

The numerous successes of the firm in large and high-ly-publicized cases led to its fast rise to prominence and the public eye and Adv. Maoz’s legal achievements received extensive attention in the national and global media.

Adv. Maoz’s team members have an LL.M. and vast professional knowledge in criminal law. The firm also collaborates with experts from the fields of psychiatry, private investigations, polygraph, forensics and more, in order to provide its clients with the best and most comprehensive legal de-fense during their trial and manage the crisis into which they stumbled.

The firm provides legal service at any time and at any place across the globe, with uncompromising commitment and devotion, for criminal offences of all types, including drug offences (trafficking, importing, exporting, growing and more), violence, manslaughter (murder, 2nd degree manslaugh-ter and criminally negligence manslaughter), sex offences (sexual harassment, indecent act, rape, sodomy and more), property offences, economic offences, fraud, and more.

In addition, the firm provides legal representation to convicts in administrative petitions, before the parole committees, handles pardon applications to the President, expungement requests and closure of criminal files in the police.
Adv. Ben Maoz formerly served as head of a criminal investigation department in the IDF and nowadays serves as a team leader (at the rank of a captain) in the missing persons unit. He started his professional career in the state criminal prosecution service and opened his own firm about a decade ago in Tel Aviv. In addition to his work as a leading defense attorney, he is renown media personality who serves as a legal pundit and is often interviewed by various media outlets.

Adv. Maoz believes that “being a defense attorney means to be sucked into the client’s world for the duration of the case, to think about it at any given moment until the most accurate legal solution for achieving victory is found. It is not a profession – it is a way of life that has no room for er-rors”.

Complex and Significant Cases That Ben Maoz Law Office Handled:

Over the years, Adv. Ben Maoz’s firm represented large and complex cases that were highly publicized. Some of the cases include the representa-tion of Shira Iskov which led to an amendment in the Law and a new legal precedent in Israeli Law (a case that received extensive media coverage in Israel and globally including an article in the New York Times).

Other prominent cases include: The Eliasi Affair (“The Crook Who Managed to Convince Adva Dadon”), the affair of the jailoress who was accused of an alleged sexual relationships with convicts, the affair of Lihi Greener, rep-resenting a former soccer player who was accused of secretly filming women and distributing sex videos on porn sites, representing Shiri Sobol who was accused of murdering her twin sister, representing a suspect of throwing a grenade into the house of soccer player Omer Atzili, representing a suspect in making threats against Minister Ohana, representing a son from Rehovot who was accused of murdering his mother, representing victims in the affairs of the models agent Shai Avital and Yisrael Or, representing Steimatzky’s salary accountant who was accused of embezzlement, rep-resenting the brothers Tom and Elimelech Kashti who were accused of assaulting a guard in a residential building, representing the beauty queen Tehila Levy, representing a private investigator who was accused of bribing a cop, representing a nurse who was accused of stabbing and causing severe harm and a physician who was accused of stealing medicine and illicit substances abuse, representing a masseuse who was suspect of sodomy and indecent behavior, the affair of importing drug suitcases from Germany - the “pink suitcases” affair, representing one of the suspects close to Eyal Golan in the “social games” affair, the affair of the undercover police agent where the firm represented defendants in a drug trafficking case, “Derby Eritrea” the murder case where the firm represented three defendants who were accused of political murder and more.