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| Practice Areas | Criminal Law; Litigation; Federal Litigation; White Collar Crime; Drugs and Narcotics; Commercial Litigation; Federal Civil Practice; Drug Crimes; Fraud; Medical Malpractice; Trial Practice; Personal Injury; Accidents; Catastrophic Injury; Plaintiffs Personal Injury; Wrongful Death; Civil RICO; Money Laundering; Torts; Federal Tort Claims Act; Appellate Practice; Complex and Multi-District Litigation; Constitutional Law; Criminal Defense; Complex Litigation; Civil Litigation; Negligence; Premises Liability; RICO; White Collar Criminal Defense; Forfeiture Defense | | | Education | State University of New York at Buffalo, J.D., 1979, State University of New York at Albany, B.A., magna cum laude, 1975 | | | Admitted | 1980, New York, U.S. District Court, Northern and Western Districts of New York; U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth and Second Circuits; 1992, U.S. Supreme Court | |
| Memberships | Albany County Bar Association (Former Chair, Federal Practice Committee); New York State Bar Association (Member, Sections on Trial Lawyers, Federal and Commercial Litigation, Criminal Justice); American Bar Association (Member, Sections on Litigation, Criminal Justice; Committee Member: Trial Practice, Trial Evidence, Criminal Litigation); Capital District Trial Lawyers Association; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. | | | Born | Staten Island, New York | | | Biography | Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. Honor Graduate Program, 1979-1980. Assistant U.S. Attorney, Northern District of New York, 1980-1989. Listed in Who's Who in American Law. Recipient: 1988, Superior Performance as an Assistant U.S. Attorney; Commendations: 1989, Department of Justice, Attorney General's Asset Forfeiture Policy Advisory Committee; 1987, FBI Director, Sessions; 1985, FBI Director, William Webster. Local Chair, Moderator and Panelist, "Zealous Representation: Ethical Limits and Trial Techniques," NYSBA Seminar, May 2007. Lecturer, "Federal Civil Discovery Practice for Experienced Litigators," NYSBA Seminar, 2000. Author, Federal Criminal Law Column, Albany County Bar Newsletter, 1999. Overall Planning Co-Chair, Local Chair & Lecturer, NYSBA Seminar: "The United States Sentencing Guidelines," 1998; Local Chair, NYSBA Seminar: "Juries, Grand and Petit, in New York State Criminal Cases," 1996; Lecturer, NYSBA Seminar: "Practical Skills, Criminal Law," 1995; Local Chair and Lecturer, NYSBA Seminar: "The Trial of a Drug Case," 1994; Lecturer, Albany County Bar Association Seminar: "When the Feds Come Knocking at Your Client's Door" (representing clients in federal criminal investigations), 1994; Lecturer, NYSBA Seminar: "White Collar Crime," 1989. | | | Reported Cases | (partial listing): U.S. v. Ford, 435 F.3d 204 (2d Cir. 2006); U.S. v. Johnson, 221 F.3d 83 (2d Cir., 2000), cert. denied, 533 U.S.953; U.S. v. Hernandez-Fundora, 49 F. 3d 848 (2d Cir. 1995), amended, 58 F.3d 802, cert. denied, 115 S. Ct. 2288, conviction vacated and indictment dismissed, 896 F.Supp. 276 (N.D.N.Y., 1995); U.S. v. Jaswal, 47 F. 3d 539 (2d Cir. 1995); U.S. v. Davis, 967 F.2d 84 (2d Cir. 1992), cert. denied, 113 S. Ct. 356; U.S. v. Ritchey, 949 F.2d 61 (2nd Cir. 1991); Town of Fenton v. Dole, 792 F.2d 44 (2d Cir. 1986); Friends of Shanangunks, Inc. v. Clark, 754 F.2d 446 (2d Cir. 1985); Michelson v. Daly, 590 F.Supp. 261 (N.D.N.Y. 1984); County of Delaware v. J E D Distributing and Manufacturing, Inc., 161 A.D. 2d 1083, 557 N.Y.S. 2d 642 (3d Dept. 1990). | | | ISLN | 907522278 | |
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