White Collar Criminal Defense

The federal and state governments are dedicating attention to the investigation and prosecution of corporations and their officers, directors and employees. Led by experienced trial lawyers and former federal, state, and local prosecutors, Gordon & Rees' White Collar Defense Group has the civil, criminal, and regulatory expertise required to achieve successful outcomes at trial, and, often more importantly, before charges are filed and investigations become public.

Gordon & Rees has attorneys in many of its offices with extensive experience in criminal law and special operations, both as prosecutors and defense lawyers. The Group's attorneys include former prosecutors from the United States Attorney's Offices, state district attorney offices and local district attorney offices. Our background includes counseling and representing clients in all aspects of the white collar practice, including, but not limited to, internal audits and investigations, corporate compliance programs, regulatory and administrative enforcement actions, grand jury investigations, and criminal trials.

Our White Collar Defense attorneys provide representation in state and federal investigations and prosecutions, as well as cases before self regulatory agencies such as the SEC, FINRA/NASD, FCC and CFP, and federal and state securities divisions. Our attorneys represent clients in insurance, banking, finance, real estate, sports, media and entertainment, and health care industries. In addition to the other articles authored by our White Collar Defense team, New York partner, Deborah Swindells Donovan, recently published a chapter titled "Key Elements in Developing a White Collar Defense Strategy, " in Apastore, Inc.'s "Inside the Minds Series," August 2007.

Our White Collar Defense attorneys utilize the expertise of other practice areas in the firm. For example, attorneys from the firm's Insurance, Financial Services and Employment Groups frequently collaborate with our White Collar Defense attorneys on D&O insurance, indemnity, and employment issues.

Gordon & Rees' White Collar Defense team has handled the following types of white collar crime matters:

• Fraud, including Tax and Health Care Fraud
• Credit card and check scams
• Corporate theft of assets
• Self-dealing/Commingling
• Sexual assault and battery
• Wiretapping/Surveillance
• Pretexting
• SEC/NASD/FINRA violations
• NFL salary cap violations
• Commission/Fee splitting
• Illegal digital file sharing
• Ponzi schemes
• Failure to supervise
• Financial elder abuse
• Consumer Legal Remedies Act claims
• 17200 claims with criminal overlay

Representative Defense Experience

• Medi-Cal fraud prosecution against Medical clinics
• Alleged failure to pay fuel taxes against Fuel broker
• Sexual assault and battery
• NFL salary cap investigations against the San Francisco Forty Niners
• Copyright infringement claims brought by RIAA against Napster co-founder
• NASD/ SEC/FINRA, state and federal securities investigations against Brokers
• SEC investigation against Gaming company
• Failure to supervise and Ponzi scheme cases against Broker dealers
• Federal fraud investigation during interviews with prosecutors
• Pretexting scandal against corporate client
• Financial elder abuse
• Class action defense