Admitted
1975, New York, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 1980, U.S. Supreme Court; 1981, New Jersey and U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey; 1983, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circu
Law School
St. Louis University, J.D., 1974
Law School Graduation Year
1974
College
Boston University; New York University, B.S., 1971
Memberships
New Jersey State, New York State and American Bar Associations; Federal Bar Council; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; New Jersey Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Biographical
Member, St. Louis University Law Review, 1973-1974. Assistant District Attorney, Bronx District Attorney's Office, 1974-1977. Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, 1977-1980. Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, 1980-1982. Recipient: U.S. Attorney General Special Achievement Award, 1979; U.S. Attorney General Special Commendation Award, 1980; Trial Attorneys of New Jersey Trial Bar Award, 2003. Selected for inclusion in Chambers USA-America's Leading Business Lawyers, 2003-2004. Listed in: The Best Lawyers in America (under Criminal Defense and Business Litigation), 2001-2004. Author: Grand Jury Practice, The New Jersey Lawyer, February/March 1994; The Parallel Proceedings Pickle: Making the Best of Concurrent Civil and Criminal Federal Cases, 1995 Complex Crimes Journal ABA, Section of Litigation; When the White Collar Criminal Investigation Hits No Longer 'Business as Usual,' The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, June 1995; The Defense of Criminal Antitrust Prosecutions: Sometimes Half The Battle is Knowing Where To Fight, The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, June 1996; Victims May ‘Collude ’ To Contest Dumping, The National Law Journal, Vol. 19, No. 31 (March 31, 1997); Did You Say Pre-Subpoena Obstruction of Justice? The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, September 1998; “When an Employee Invokes the Fifth Amendment, the Corporate Employer May Suffer the Consequences, ” co-authored with C. Porrino, Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, Vol. 7, No. 6 (June 1999); What Lawyers Need to Know About Accepting Cash from Clients, New Jersey Law Journal, Vol. CLXII, No. 2, Oct. 2000. Lecturer: American Bar Association, Section of Criminal Justice, Ninth Annual Institute on White Collar Crime, 1995. Lecturer, Institute for Continuing Legal Education Seminars, White Collar Criminal Defense, 1992—. President, 1998-2000 and Member, Advisory Board, 2000—, Association of Federal Bar of the State of New Jersey. Member, District Ethics Committee, Chairman, f