Jeffrey E. McFadden

Partner

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Jeffrey E. McFadden is a partner in the Washington office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, where he is a member of the Litigation Department.  Mr. McFadden focuses his representation on mass tort and complex commercial litigation, securities litigation and enforcement, white-collar crime and corporate internal investigations.  His experience includes civil, administrative, and criminal first-chair trial and appellate litigation of federal and state cases in mass tort, bank fraud, securities fraud, commodities fraud, private and commercial contracts, broker-dealer, investment adviser, and exchange regulation, and mergers and acquisitions.

Bringing his extensive briefing and oral advocacy experience to bear, Mr. McFadden is a senior supervisory partner for the firm's service as national coordinating counsel for a major client's asbestos litigation, and heads that team's motions practice, briefing and arguing dispositive motions and appeals across the country. In 2006, he received a Burton Award for an article he co-authored on mass tort liability.

Mr. McFadden has extensive securities class action and shareholder derivative suit experience, along with wide-ranging SEC, NASD, and NYSE enforcement and arbitration defense experience in proxy disclosure, insider trading, sales practice, touting, internet fraud, and accounting fraud cases.

Additionally, Mr. McFadden's practice includes a wealth of corporate internal investigation experience, including service to the Special Investigative Committee of the Board of Directors of Enron Corp.  He also represented a former senior government official before the Iran-Contra prosecutor and served as counsel to the Honor Review Committee of the US Naval Academy Board of Visitors, drafting the final report submitted to the Secretary of the Navy.  He also has a long history of representing veterans pro bono before the Department of Veterans Affairs and the US Court of Appeals for Veterans' Claims.

Prior to joining Steptoe, Mr. McFadden practiced at a large Washington, DC, law firm.  He previously served as a lecturer in English at the US Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD; as a Special Assistant and Speechwriter for the Secretary of the Navy; as a systems engineer at General Electric Co.; and as a nuclear engineer in the US Navy. 

Noteworthy

• Burton Award for Legal Achievement, 2006

Select News & Events

• Steptoe Congratulates Burton Award Winners
• In-House Attorneys as Gatekeepers
• Kevin Mayer, Jeff McFadden, Ana Voss Receive Burton Award for Legal Achievement
• Steptoe Promotes 13 Attorneys in 2006
• McFadden and Lieberman Join the Washington Office
• SOX's Fifth Birthday: A No Holds Barred Debate on the Good, the Bad and the Unresolved, September 21, 2007
• “Agent Orange and the Derivative Morality of the Political-Military Decision Maker.” Paper presented at the Joint Academy Conference on the Constitutional Responsibilities of Military Officers, National Defense University, January 11, 1989

Publications

• Mass Tort Cases: Debunking the Expansion of Defendants Theory
  Defense Research Institute
  October 2005, For the Defense
• When ‘No Comment’ is Not Enough
  Global Counsel, Vol. VI, No. 4, with Andrew Parnell, David Lynn, David Taylor, and Phillip von Hoyenberg
  May 2001
• A Second Opportunity to Set the Appropriate Discretionary Standard in Cease-and-Desist Proceedings
  PLI/32nd Annual Institute on Securities Regulation (with William R. McLucas)
  January 2000
• Recent Developments in Criminal Money Laundering Law
  ABA/ABA Money Laundering Enforcement Seminar,
  October 27, 1994, Washington, DC
• We Need Leaders, Not Technocrats
  January 1990, United States Naval Institute Proceedings

Professional Affiliations

• District of Columbia Bar
• Maryland Bar
• Member, Judicial Conference of the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
• Florida Bar