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I have been a partner in the Litigation Department of Ropes & Gray since 1993. Since joining the firm in 1990, I have specialized in white-collar criminal matters and complex civil litigation. My practice includes representation of clients in criminal litigation, enforcement actions and federal and state grand jury investigations involving alleged health care fraud and abuse; securities fraud; public corruption; pharmaceutical sales, marketing and pricing practices; RICO violations; mail and wire fraud; and bank fraud. I served for many years as co-Chair of our Government Enforcement Practice and currently serve as a member of the firm’s Policy Committee.

Matters on which I have worked include: representation of a number of major pharmaceutical companies in criminal investigations being conducted by the Department of Justice and various U.S. Attorney's Offices, including matters involving alleged fraud and abuse violations and obstruction of justice; representation of a multi-facility hospital system in a federal investigation into alleged Anti-Kickback Act and Stark law violations, together with a parallel civil qui tam action; representation of a major defense contractor in a federal grand jury investigation into the alleged illegal export of military equipment to Pakistan; representation of physicians in a federal grand jury investigation involving an alleged conspiracy to defraud the government through submission of improper claims to Medicare; representation of a federal district court judge presiding over a high-profile criminal trial in connection with mandamus petitions brought by the press seeking access to judicial records being withheld pursuant to procedures designed to protect the defendants' rights to a fair trial; representation of the State of Rhode Island in litigation that challenged the constitutionality of legislation evicting private union employees from the Rhode Island Public Employees' Retirement System; representation of a health care insurer in a public corruption inquiry being conducted by the Rhode Island U.S. Attorney's Office and the Attorney General's Office; and representation of the United States on appeal from a judgment of contempt entered against a news reporter for his refusal to testify in a federal criminal proceeding.

Prior to joining Ropes & Gray, I served as an Assistant United States Attorney and Deputy Chief of the Appeals Unit in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. As a federal prosecutor, I investigated and tried fraud, narcotics, bank robbery, obstruction of justice, labor racketeering and organized crime cases. I graduated from Princeton University in 1980 and from Harvard Law School in 1984. Following law school, I served as a law clerk for the Honorable Abraham D. Sofaer in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

I am married and have three children. I enjoy skiing, sailing, reading and traveling with my family.

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