Inbal Duchovni-Zeevi, Law Offices

The Law Offices of Inbal Duchovni Zeevi is a leading boutique Israeli law firm that specializes in criminal law and white-collar offences. The firm was founded by Inbal Duchovni Zeevi, who has been handling white-collar cases for over a decade, both in Israel and in the U.S (California). The firm specializes in handling complex criminal and white-collar cases, and has secured numerous not guilty verdicts, conviction set asides, dismissals of charges, DA refusals to file charges, restorative justice solutions, and other favorable results for its clients. Its professional excellence and ability to achieve optimal results for its clients is renowned.
The firm offers unique global services for its clients, based on Duchovni Zeevi’s experience as a criminal defense attorney in top notch criminal defense firms both in Israel and in California – in Werksman Jackson & Quinn in Los Angeles, California, and in Chen - Yaari in Tel-Aviv, Israel. This international experience provides her with a broad legal perspective and enables her to devise creative legal solutions for complex situations, while providing her clients with legal services at a first-class American standard. Duchovni Zeevi’s broad network of international professional connections, both in the U.S. and across Europe, enables the firm to provide immediate legal assistance to individuals who are facing extradition proceedings, as well as for Israeli citizens who are arrested or indicted abroad.
For clients that are under police investigation, and are facing law enforcement questioning, the firm has a tailor-made “preparation for interrogation” service. After devising a defense strategy, the firm instructs its clients as to how to handle various interrogation techniques, guides them on how to shrewdly exercise their rights, and utilizes simulations to train them, often with assistance of former police interrogators. This service enables the firm’s clients to successfully withstand their questioning, maximizes the chances that the DA will decide not to file charges, and secures the best possible defense for trial.

Duchovni Zeevi always zealously strives to protect her client’s freedom, rights, and good name. She sees fighting against oppressive police conduct and prosecutorial misconduct as her mission. In exposing law enforcement errors and holes in the prosecutor’s case, Duchovni-Zeevi tenaciously fights for non-guilty verdicts, often driving the DA’s office to withdraw and drop charges against her clients altogether.
Duchovni-Zeevi’s has a proven history of success in representing high profile and complex criminal and white-collar cases. She is also a well sought after legal commentator on Israeli national radio and TV.

Practice Areas

Preparation for Law Enforcement Questioning and Interrogation

The firm provides a top-notch service of consultation prior to law enforcement questioning, which is vital as in Israel a suspect is not entitled to a presence of his or her counsel during such questioning. Duchovni-Zeevi personally formulates a tailor-made defense strategy for every client, and she and her team instruct them as to how to avoid falling for police manipulation tactics, how to handle various interrogation techniques, what to watch out for, and how to shrewdly exercise their legal rights. When possible, the firm utilized simulations to better prepare its clients for expected and unexpected scenarios. When a client is detained by the police, a firm’s representative will immediately be deployed to the police station to meet her or him and counsel them prior to their questioning.

Arrest

The firm has an impressive record of success in representing its clients in detention proceedings and securing their speedy release from custody. The firm represents its clients in pre-arraignment detention proceedings, post-arraignment detention proceedings, in extradition related detention proceedings, and in appellate detention hearings. As clients are often re-interrogated during their detention, the firm always counsels them prior to any such questioning, instilling them with confidence, and securing their release as soon as possible. In doing so, the firm conducts its own investigations, gathers favorable evidence, and builds a strong defense strategy, achieving outstanding results.

Criminal Trial

The firm leaves no stone unturned in order to identify the weaknesses in the prosecution’s case, suppress unfavorable evidence, undermine the credibility of adverse witnesses, uncover favorable evidence, and craft a strong and robust defense at trial.
The firm takes on white-collar cases, as well as classic criminal cases. It has successfully handled cases involving charges of money laundering, bribery, fraud, forgery, computer offences, crypto/blockchain offences, violence and manslaughter offences, sex offences, property and drug related offences, obstruction of justice and witness tampering, conspiracy, criminal threats, and offences against peace officers.
Duchovni-Zeevi’s professional experience includes handling some of the most complex white-collar cases in Israel, representing top executives, leading personalities in the entertainment industry, lawyers, accountants, and people in the financial industry.

Extradition Proceedings and Israeli Citizens Detained Oversees

The firm has a well-established professional network with leading law firms in the U.S. and Europe as well as in the far east, enabling it to quickly respond in extradition cases and in any case where an Israeli citizen is arrested or criminally charged overseas.
Duchovni Zeevi is licensed to practice law not only in Israel, but also in California. Working at a leading criminal defense firm in L.A., Werksman Jackson & Quinn, she represented defendants both in state and federal court. Her deep knowledge of the U.S. law and legal system, and her familiarity with the American way of thinking, and with key figures in the field, enables her firm to provide her clients with the most comprehensive and professional service in extradition cases as well as in cases involving detention of citizens abroad.

Inbal Duchovni Zeevi – Founder and Owner

Inbal Duchovni Zeevi’s vast experience includes not only working in leading criminal law defense firms in Israel and the U.S., but also successfully representing lawyers, doctors, executives, engineers, and other key figures in the economy and in the entertainment industry. She has represented in some of the most complex cases in Israel, including in money laundering cases, securities cases, tax cases, corruption cases and classic criminal defense cases such as sex offenses cases, manslaughter and murder, robbery, criminal threats, and many more - always securing the best results possible for her clients. In light of her expertise, Inbal Duchovni Zeevi is a popular legal pundit in radio and television channels, as well as the written press.

Inbal Duchovni Zeevi has an LL.B. (cum laude) from Tel Aviv University and an LL.M. (cum laude) from Columbia University, and she also holds a B.Sc. (magna cum laude) in Physics and Philosophy from Tel Aviv University - a degree that provided her with unique scientific and critical thinking tools which she applies in the legal realm.
Inbal Duchovni Zeevi has been licensed to practice law in Israel since 2009, and in California since 2014.