+ Criminal

• Defended a target in a federal wire-fraud investigation. After negotiations with the government, the client was not prosecuted.

   

• Defended a company and its owner in a federal fraud investigation related to set-aside contracting. The company was not charged, and all charges against the owner were dismissed by pre-trial diversion agreement.

   

• Defended an engineering professional in a federal theft-of-trade-secrets investigation. The client was not charged.

   

• Defended a client charged with bank robbery, and won acquittal at trial.

   

• Defended a subject in a federal insider-trading investigation. The investigation of the client was closed without charges, penalties, or publicity.

   

• Defended a business and its executives in an investigation by the New York City Department of Investigation. The case was resolved without litigation or business suspension.

   

• Defended businesses and individuals in administrative and criminal tax investigations. These matters ended with successful audits, amendment of returns, or other similar resolutions.

   

• Defended a police officer charged with assaulting a suspect and making false statements, and won acquittal at trial.

   

• Defended a business and its owner in a federal public-corruption investigation. The business owner received immunity and neither client was charged.

   

• Defended a Canadian client charged with drug offenses carrying a ten-year mandatory minimum, and won dismissal of all counts.

   

• Defended an individual charged with drug and gun offenses carrying a five-year mandatory minimum, and secured a favorable resolution.

   

• Defended a business and its owner in a federal environmental and tax investigation. After an internal investigation, the case was resolved with a favorable global plea.

   

• Secured a no-jail sentence for a young woman charged in a wire-fraud conspiracy.

   

• Defended a Canadian client charged with a felony immigration offense. The matter was resolved with a plea to false-statement charge and the client was sentenced to time served.

   

• Defended a Canadian client charged with felony immigration and false-statement offenses. The matter resolved by a plea to a misdemeanor and the client was sentenced to unsupervised probation.

   

• Defended a client charged with federal immigration violations, and won acquittal at trial.

   

• Defended a client charged with federal false-statement offenses. On the eve of trial, the prosecution dismissed all charges.

   

• Defended a client charged with federal firearms offenses, and won acquittal at trial.

   

• Defended a client in a federal public-corruption investigation. After negotiations with the government, the client was not prosecuted.

   

• Defended a heavy-industry worker in a federal environmental investigation. The client received immunity and was not prosecuted.

   

• Defended multiple clients charged with drug offenses carrying a ten-year mandatory minimum sentences. The clients obtained reduced charges and probation or time served.

   

• Defended employees in a professional-services firm who were the subjects of a federal fraud and public-corruption investigation. The clients were not charged.

   

• Defended a combat veteran charged with racketeering, drug offenses, firearms offenses, and perjury. The client received a reduced sentence.

   

• Defended a professional charged with participating in a wire-fraud conspiracy. After successful motion practice, the client received a resolution that may allow him to retain his license.

+ Civil

• Successfully represented a business owner wrongly frozen out by his partners.

   

• Represented a Jamaican national who spent more than five years in immigration detention waiting for his case to be resolved. After successful habeas litigation in federal court, the client was released.

   

• Defeated a civil-rights suit brought against a telecommunications company.

   

• Defended a not-for-profit organization in an OSHA investigation stemming from a death caused by an episode of workplace violence.

   

• Defended a not-for-profit organization in a surrogate’s court bench trial challenging investment decisions made by the foundation’s directors. After trial, the court issued a decision in the client’s favor.

   

• Defeated an attempt to impose corporate-governance restrictions on a large utility company.

   

• Prepared the scientific defense in toxic-tort suits brought against a large pharmaceutical company.

   

• Defended a Minnesota corporation against a wrongful-termination suit, which settled favorably on the eve of trial.

+ Appellate

• Overturned the client's conviction for assaulting a police officer.

   

• Preserved a judgment dismissing a discrimination suit brought against a large medical practice.

   

• Overturned an order rejecting a Colombian national's application for relief under the Convention Against Torture.

   

• Preserved a judgment upholding an arbitral award issued against a Mexican manufacturer.

   

• Won an order declaring the client a United States citizen.

   

• Overturned the client's murder conviction because the jury was improperly instructed on the law of justification.