White-Collar Criminal Defense

When the future of a company hangs in the balance, many of the nation's highest profile senior executives and corporations choose Steptoe to represent them.

We have long provided representation to clients in areas of corporate compliance, white-collar criminal matters, and related administrative enforcement and civil litigation matters. Our representation includes corporate counseling, internal investigations, and criminal, civil, and enforcement matters ranging from administrative subpoenas through SEC and grand jury investigations, trials, post-trial matters and appeals. Our white-collar, securities, and corporate compliance practices are nationwide.

Our white-collar litigation team includes Reid Weingarten, widely recognized as one of the nation's top criminal defense lawyers, and is headed by former Assistant US Attorney Mark Hulkower. It includes three former federal prosecutors with extensive trial experience and a host of attorneys with substantial experience in other government positions.

Our white-collar criminal defense team represents individuals and corporations in some of the most noteworthy cases in the country involving allegations of the following:

accounting and securities fraud
corporate misconduct
public corruption
money laundering
price fixing
government contracting fraud
healthcare fraud
environmental crimes

Our clients include senior executives and corporations in the telecommunications, pharmaceutical, energy, chemical, electronics, electronic commerce, agricultural, and cruise line industries, as well as financial institutions and foreign governments.

Individual Clients
Our white-collar criminal defense team has extensive experience representing senior executives allegedly involved in corporate controversies that frequently generate significant public attention. In addition to the defense of senior executives from companies such as Enron, Tyco, WorldCom, Rite Aid, and ADM, we have represented former cabinet-level US government officials, the former president of a leading trade union, and the president of a foreign government.

We have also provided representation in a number of recent federal independent counsel proceedings.

Corporate Representation
The white-collar defense team brings extensive experience to defending charges brought against businesses in complex criminal proceedings, and related civil and enforcement matters, and before Congressional committees.

Our attorneys assist corporate clients with internal investigations and both public and private litigation in wide-ranging matters including the following:

SEC investigations
domestic and international antitrust violations
foreign corrupt practices
illegal hiring, obstruction of justice
RICO and fraud actions

Noteworthy & Success Stories

Received a #1 Ranking in Chambers USA 2008, America's Leading Business Lawyers; Litigation: White Collar Crime & Government Investigations (District of Columbia)
White-Collar Team Relies on Good Faith for Tyco's Belnick Acquittal

News, Seminars & Events

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Publications & Speaking Engagements

Are You at Risk of Waiving the Attorney-Client Privilege by Using Your Employer’s Computer Systems to Communicate With a Personal Attorney?
May 1, 2008, Digital Discovery & e-Evidence, Vol. 08, No. 05
Russell: Prosecuting Defense Counsel for Obstruction
November 21, 2007, New York Law Journal
International Law Advisory - Fifth Circuit Clarifies the Intent Requirements for a Criminal FCPA Conviction
November 9, 2007
Getting Your Hands on the Internal Investigation: Use of the Criminal Discovery Rules to Obtain Material Critical to Trial Preparation
March 1, 2007, ABA White Collar Crime Conference 2007 Course Materials
Brian Heberlig on Panel at ABA White-Collar Crime Conference: Successful Strategies in Managing a White Collar Investigation
Brian Heberlig on ABA Subcommittee's Tales from the Courtroom Panel

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