The Bradley Arant Boult Cummings White Collar Crime Practice Group defends companies and individuals accused of criminal violations at both the federal and state levels. We offer a team that includes a former United States Attorney, Assistant U.S. Attorneys, and an Assistant District Attorney. The group is led by former United States Attorney Jack Selden and former Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Spivack. Selden is a Past President of the National Association of Former United States Attorneys, and he currently serves as the Chair of the ABA’s DOJ Dialogue Group subcommittee, which addresses criminal justice issues with the Attorney General of the United States and other leadership within the Department of Justice. Spivack was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of Columbia for almost 13years, where he served in the Fraud Division and also as Chief of Special Prosecutions. Spivack currently serves as the Co-Chair of the American Bar Association's Criminal Justice Section: WCC/Environmental Crimes Subcommittee. Other members of the team are also seasoned legal professionals with the deep criminal defense experience demanded by high-stakes white collar matters and parallel civil and administrative enforcement proceedings.
The Bradley Arant Boult Cummings White Collar Crime Practice Group defends companies and individuals accused of criminal violations at both the federal and state levels. We offer a team that includes a former United States Attorney, Assistant U.S. Attorneys, and an Assistant District Attorney. The group is led by former United States Attorney Jack Selden and former Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Spivack. Selden is a Past President of the National Association of Former United States Attorneys, and he currently serves as the Chair of the ABA’s DOJ Dialogue Group subcommittee, which addresses criminal justice issues with the Attorney General of the United States and other leadership within the Department of Justice. Spivack was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of Columbia for almost 13 years, where he served in the Fraud Division and also as Chief of Special Prosecutions. Spivack currently serves as the Co-Chair of the ABA’s White Collar Environmental Crime subcommittee. Other members of the team are also seasoned legal professionals with the deep criminal defense experience demanded by high-stakes white collar matters and parallel civil and administrative enforcement proceedings.
Our White Collar Crime group provides experienced counsel to defend our corporate and individual clients through all phases of federal and state investigations and enforcement proceedings. We defend clients in government investigations and prosecutions in a broad array of white collar criminal and parallel civil matters, including allegations of Medicare and Medicaid fraud, defense procurement fraud, securities fraud, bank fraud, tax fraud, environmental crimes, and antitrust violations, as well as charges of public corruption and alleged violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
While our principal goal is to resolve potential criminal liability before a prosecution decision has been made, we vigorously defend such actions when they are brought. The group has extensive experience defending our clients’ interests in court at the trial and appellate level, both regionally and nationally. We also focus on minimizing civil and administrative exposures to monetary penalties and liabilities. We conduct internal corporate investigations, and advise clients regarding responses to grand jury subpoenas and other investigative demands, as well as decisions regarding voluntary disclosure and corrective actions.
As we represent both companies and individuals, we understand the importance and complexities of attorney-client privilege and joint defense agreement issues in such cases, and have worked with joint defense counsel where appropriate to find solutions to such challenges. We are thoroughly familiar with the evolving DOJ policies on the prosecution of business organizations, including as most recently amended in the U. S. Attorney’s Manual.
We also advise our clients about creating or modifying business ethics compliance programs to ensure effective compliance with the law. Members of our White Collar Crime group work with companies from a variety of industries to develop, implement, and modify corporate compliance programs. We also partner with in-house legal staff to identify and monitor areas of potential civil or criminal exposure.