Describe your firm’s approach to litigation and your strategy for building successful teams for trials or other matters. We build teams by matching the case with the most experienced attorney from a substantive, industry, and procedural perspective (e.g., investigation, compliance, trial, appeal). We staff across offices to put the best team in the field. We invest in first-chair and “on-your-feet” training at all skill levels. Junior attorneys develop substantive specialties and learn courtroom skills from day one. Our white collar practice has developed a talent model emphasizing courtroom and investigation skills, grounded in apprenticeship, to develop instincts and judgment. This pays off in the form of a lean, thoughtful and powerful team.

Discuss the two biggest white collar litigation cases your firm worked on in 2019 and how you reached successful outcomes. In representing Banco San Juan Internacional and its owners relating to a search warrant and a civil forfeiture action alleging serious sanction and other criminal violations and seizing $53 million, we secured an order declaring the search unconstitutional, litigated the forfeiture and settled with the government, which conceded its case was based on faulty information, returned the $53 million (minus an administrative penalty), and entered into a [nonprosecution agreement] with the bank, its directors and [its] officers.