Michael Campion Miller

Partner

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Michael Campion Miller is a partner in the New York office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, where he is a member of the Litigation Department. He represents US- and foreign-based clients in all facets of federal and state commercial disputes, white-collar criminal and regulatory cases, and sensitive internal investigations. Mr. Miller has particular experience developing winning strategies in parallel criminal, regulatory, and civil proceedings. He also has extensive trial experience, with a recent win in an international arbitration for an Israeli high-tech company, which led to an $18 million settlement, and a full acquittal in a white collar criminal trial in Manhattan.

Mr. Miller’s diverse client base includes officers and directors of Fortune 500 companies, fixed income hedge fund managers, the owners of private businesses, government officials, attorneys, accountants, doctors, actors, and other professionals. In addition to representing clients located throughout the United States, Mr. Miller represents many businesses and individuals residing in Canada, Europe, Great Britain, Israel, and the Far East, and has appeared before AAA arbitration panels sitting in London, and Paris. Recently, Mr. Miller represented clients involved in the subprime mortgage market meltdown, Enron and Refco accounting fraud cases, KPMG tax fraud prosecutions, Comverse Technology's stock option grant back dating indictments, and mutual fund market timing.

After graduating from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1985, Mr. Miller joined the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, where he prosecuted securities fraud, tax fraud, and other business crimes. He has been in private practice since 1993. Mr. Miller is an arbitrator with the NASD, lectures and publishes frequently, and served as an adjunct professor of law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.

Representative Matters

• Franck Muller USA, Inc. v. Yafa Antique Jewelry Inc. et al (S.D.N.Y. 2007) – Represented the United States licensee for Franck Muller watches in a lawsuit alleging trademark infringement and unfair competition suit relating to the gray market trafficking of Franck Muller watches.  On December 7, 2007, a federal court issued the last of several rulings barring 11 retailers from engaging in this illegal activity in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean. 
• In August 2007, Mr. Miller won a $12 million interim AAA arbitration award for Orckit Communications Ltd., an Israeli Internet modem manufacturer, following a hearing held against Conexant Systems, Inc., the owner of Orckit's former semiconductor chip supplier. This award led to an $18 million settlement for Orckit. 
• In May 2007, his client was acquitted on all charges of embezzlement following a jury trial in the New York State Supreme Court.

Noteworthy & Success Stories

• Mr. Miller regularly appears in newspapers and on the Canadian Business News Network (formerly known as the Report on Business Network), Court TV, and other cable stations to discuss white collar criminal investigations and prosecutions and the American legal system.

News, Seminars & Events

• Steptoe, Piliero Goldstein Settle $14.2 Million Commercial ICDR Arbitration
• Miller Leads Top Team to Steptoe

Publications & Speaking Engagements

• Co-author, “The US Sentencing Guidelines Face the Ultimate Departure”
  Winter 2004, A.B.A. Trial Practice Newsletter
• Contributing Author of chapters in Arkin’s Business Crime treatise on Securities Fraud, 1994 and Insider Trading, 1995
• Co-author, “The Martin Act: Securities Fraud Statute”
  November 5, 1991, N.Y. Law Journal
• Co-author, “New York City’s Campaign Finance Laws”
  June 17, 1989, N.Y. Law Journal
• “Forced Waiver of the Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege - Is the Tide Turning,” presented at the American Conference Institute 4th Annual Corporate Counsel’s Forum on Conducting and Responding to Internal & Government Investigations, June 23, 2006
• Co-presenter, “New York State Tax Violations,” presented at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York conference on Federal and State Criminal Tax Investigations, May 17, 2004

Professional Affiliations

• New York Council of Defense Lawyers Member, 1997-present; Board of Directors, 2004-2007
• President Elect, NYCLA American Inn of Court
• Member, Criminal Advisory Committee, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 2007-present