White-Collar Defense

“It is an excellent firm to work with and has very capable attorneys. They are very customer service-oriented.”
(Chambers USA 2013)

"They provide very insightful, spot-on legal advice."
(Chambers USA 2012)

"A solution-focused firm with strong experience in cross-border actions"
(Chambers USA 2011)

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Representative Experience

In re UnitedHealth Group, Inc.

(D. Minn.) We defended the former chair of the compensation committee of the board of directors of UnitedHealth Group Inc. in government investigations and civil actions relating to allegations of option backdating, resulting in avoidance of action by the government and settlements favorable to our client in the civil actions.

People v. Patricia Dunn

In State of California v. Patricia Dunn (California Superior Court, Santa Clara County), we obtained dismissal of all criminal charges against Patricia Dunn, former Chairperson of Hewlett-Packard, in an indictment alleging that Ms. Dunn was involved in a conspiracy to illegally obtain phone records of journalists and Hewlett-Packard board members and in related civil litigation. The novel charges were based on an investigative technique known as "pretexting."

U.S. v. Bruens, et al.

We won a complete jury defense victory on behalf of a former pharmaceutical sales executive in a criminal case charging conspiracy and violations of the federal Anti-Kickback statute. Following a two-week trial in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, in Boston, a jury took less than three hours to fully exonerate our client who faced up to 15 years in prison and a $750,000 fine.

United States v. Hitt

We led the defense in trial court, and obtained a rare dismissal based on a statute of limitations, on behalf of the China program director of McDonnell Douglas charged with criminal conspiracy to violate export laws in connection with the shipment of aircraft machining tools to China (249 F.3d 1010 (D.C. Cir.); 107 F. Supp. 2d 29 (D.D.C.)).