Marilyn E. Bednarski

Marilyn Bednarski is a partner in the law firm of Kaye, McLane, Bednarski & Litt, L.L.P., in Pasadena California, specializing in federal and state criminal defense and civil rights litigation. Marilyn began her career as a criminal defense lawyer in 1983 working with a death penalty defense lawyer in Los Angeles. She joined the Federal Public Defender’s Office in Los Angeles in 1984. Marilyns career has spanned public service and private practice.
Marilyn tries cases in state and federal courts and has tried over a hundred jury trials in federal court. She has been very successful, once winning six acquittals in a row from juries. Marilyn has also been very successful in negotiations of dismissals and reduction of charges and obtaining short sentences in all kinds of cases, including very complicated prosecutions for fraud, securities, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, money laundering, tax evasion, exportation of defense technology as well as other types of serious cases such as those involving the RICO act, guns and drugs.

Other Accomplishments:
Superlawyers
California’s Best Women Litigators 2012
Top Women Lawyers of So. California 2015
Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers
Faculty, National Criminal Defense College