Neufeld Scheck & Brustin, LLP (NSB) is a boutique national civil rights law firm based in New York City. Founded over 20 years ago by Peter Neufeld, Barry Scheck and the late Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr., NSB currently is lead counsel in approximately 30 complex individual and multi-plaintiff Section 1983 cases throughout the country. Our constitutional civil rights cases target police misconduct and other types of corruption within the criminal legal system—most commonly, wrongful convictions, excessive force, and abuse of prisoners. Our mission is to use civil litigation to win justice for our clients and hold individuals and institutions accountable.