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Stephen R. Spivack

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Stephen R. Spivack

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Steve specializes in white collar criminal investigation and defense matters, including the conduct of internal investigations. He is a highly experienced white collar attorney having served as a federal prosecutor in D.C. for 13 years and as a defense lawyer for the last twenty years. He has handled a wide variety of complex white collar cases and in 2009, after a ten week trial in federal court in Montana, all charges were dismissed against his client, a Division President of W.R. Grace, in what the EPA had claimed was one of the most important environmental cases ever brought. Steve Spivack has handled a wide variety of white collar criminal, civil and administrative cases, including those involving such statutes as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), Bribery of Public Officials, Government Contractor Fraud, Antitrust Violations, Health Care Fraud, Qui Tam Claims, Export Control and OFAC violations, and Suspension and Debarment Proceedings. As a federal prosecutor, he prosecuted some of the most important white collar cases in the office, including two ABSCAM prosecutions, and as a supervisor in the office, he supervised the work of 21 Assistant U.S. Attorneys, including the Pollard spy case.

Steve specializes in white collar criminal investigation and defense matters, including the conduct of internal investigations. He is a highly experienced white collar attorney having served as a federal prosecutor in D.C. for 13 years and as a defense lawyer for the last twenty years. He has handled a wide variety of complex white collar cases and in 2009, after a ten week trial in federal court in Montana, all charges were dismissed against his client, a Division President of W.R. Grace, in what the EPA had claimed was one of the most important environmental cases ever brought. Steve Spivack has handled a wide variety of white collar criminal, civil and administrative cases, including those involving such statutes as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), Bribery of Public Officials, Government Contractor Fraud, Antitrust Violations, Health Care Fraud, Qui Tam Claims, Export Control and OFAC violations, and Suspension and Debarment Proceedings. As a federal prosecutor, he prosecuted some of the most important white collar cases in the office, including two ABSCAM prosecutions, and as a supervisor in the office, he supervised the work of 21 Assistant U.S. Attorneys, including the Pollard spy case.

Steve handles cases across the country and overseas for corporate and individual clients. He has successfully represented a wide range of diverse clients from Fortune 200 Companies and small privately owned companies, Labor Organizations and its officers, CEOs, corporate presidents and other executives, lawyers, accountants, journalists, Executive Branch officials, and local government officials. He has assisted companies in establishing compliance programs and has conducted company in-house seminars on such topics as FCPA compliance and government contractor ethics. He has conducted internal investigations for his corporate clients, handled suspension and debarment matters for them and is experienced in pursuing insurance coverage claims under fidelity loss policies.

Experience

Steve has handled complex criminal cases across the country including the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, New York, California, Florida, Montana, Michigan, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Nevada, Utah, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Maine, and Rhode Island.

Distinctions

  • Listed in The Best Lawyers in America®, Criminal Defense: White Collar, 2007-2013
  • Listed in Washington D.C. Super Lawyers, Criminal Defense: White Collar, 2009-2013

Memberships and Affiliations

  • Criminal Justice Section
    • White Collar Crime/Corporate Criminal Liability Subcommittee
    • White Collar Crime/Health Care Fraud
    • White Collar Crime Committee
    • White Collar Crime Subcommittee, Co-Chairman of the Environmental Crimes Section, 2008-2009  
  • Section of Litigation
    • Criminal Litigation
  • Section of Public Law
  • National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL)