Herbert W. Mondros

Herbert W. Mondros is Special Counsel at Rigrodsky Law.  Mr. Mondros is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University and a magna cum laude graduate of Tulane University Law School, where he served as a member of the Tulane Law Review and was awarded the Order of the Coif.  After graduating law school, Mr. Mondros entered the United States Department of Justice through the Honors Program.  He served as a Trial Attorney in the Environmental Crimes Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney and Chief Appellate Counsel for the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana.  Prior to joining Rigrodsky Law, Mr. Mondros was a litigation partner at Margolis Edelstein and a litigation associate in the Delaware office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.  He has represented plaintiffs and defendants in shareholder corporate and derivative litigation, securities and consumer fraud class actions, and commercial civil litigation.  Mr. Mondros routinely litigates in all of Delaware’s state and federal courts.  He has an active pro bono practice, representing defendants in capital punishment cases and plaintiffs in prisoner civil rights cases.  Mr. Mondros has been a member of defense teams that exonerated and freed two individuals who had been wrongfully convicted and collectively served more than thirty years on Delaware’s death row, and a third who served thirty-eight years in prison for a crime he did not commit.  Mr. Mondros serves on the Board of Innocence Delaware, an innocence organization dedicated to the exoneration of wrongfully convicted individuals.