White Collar Defense and Investigations
Stevens & Lee’s White Collar Defense and Investigations Group is anchored by lawyers with a long history of successfully representing corporate and individuals in government investigations and prosecutions, conducting internal investigations for our corporate clients and providing guidance for compliance with the variety of regulatory landscapes.
Experience Counts and Can Change the Odds
Our highly experienced team is comprised of lawyers who are recognized leaders in their profession and have attained a high degree of credibility among judges, prosecutors and investigative agencies resulting from a long history of consistently obtaining excellent outcomes at trial. In addition to our high percentage of not guilty verdicts, we have extensive experience assisting our clients in achieving non-prosecution decisions at the conclusion of lengthy investigations.
Our team includes former federal and state prosecutors, and a deep bench of lawyers who have significant experience in antitrust, tax, securities, banking and health care.
We have defended professionals including doctors, accountants, lawyers, engineers, banking and financial professionals, elected officials, business owners, media personalities and professional athletes at criminal trials involving a wide range of allegations, including fraud, extortion, money laundering, tax evasion, racketeering, embezzlement, bribery and corruption.
Our lawyers have defended corporate and individual clients against a wide variety of allegations including:
- Antitrust violations, including alleged bid-rigging, price fixing or customer allocation
- Violations of food, drug and cosmetic laws and regulations
- Commercial bribery, embezzlement, extortion
- Money laundering
- Securities fraud, insider trading and other regulations
- Tax fraud and evasion of federal, state and local taxes
- Environmental law and regulatory violations
- Immigration and customs law violations
- Import or export law and regulatory violations
- Violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
- Fraud – mail, wire, consumer, insurance and bank fraud
- Medicare, Medicaid or health care regulatory violations
- Government contracting law and regulatory violations
- Political corruption or bribery and theft or misappropriation from state or local agencies or programs
- Violations of state or federal election campaign laws and regulations