He has represented a number of high-profile clients, including financier and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein,[2] the Black Panthers, activist/author Abbie Hoffman, hotelier Harry Helmsley, former Speaker of the New York State Assembly Mel Miller, and actors Russell Crowe[3] and Tracy Morgan.
Lefcourt graduated from Brooklyn Law School in the class of 1967, and heads a firm in New York City that specializes in criminal defense.
In 1997 he was presented the Thurgood Marshall Lifetime Achievement Award by The New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
His victories have included a full acquittal of rap mogul and Murder Inc. founder Irv Gotti on federal money laundering charges.
Lefcourt was an attorney of "aider and abettor" non-KMPG employee David Amir Makov,[5] in the 2008 federal KPMG tax shelter fraud prosecution, believed to be the largest tax fraud case ever brought in the history of the United States.