The brand of legislation agency Morrison & Foerster LLP at their workplace in Washington, D.C. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
(Reuters) – Morrison & Foerster stated Monday that it has added two former prosecutors in New York who will bolster its investigations and white collar protection capabilities and assist anchor a brand new follow group targeted on state legal professional basic issues.
The San Francisco-founded agency introduced on Katherine Driscoll and Nathan Reilly from the U.S. Legal professional’s workplaces for the Jap District of Pennsylvania and the Jap District of New York, respectively. Each are becoming a member of as counsel within the agency’s 100-lawyer investigations and white-collar protection group.
Chuck Duross, who serves as world co-chair of Morrison & Foerster’s investigations and white-collar protection group, stated the additions replicate the continued progress of the agency’s white collar follow in New York, Washington, D.C., and past
“The reality is that we’re busy,” Duross stated. “Our purchasers want the assistance, and we want the sorts of large expertise that we’re lucky to get with Nathan(and) Kate becoming a member of us to assist our purchasers take care of a few of their most urgent and severe issues.”
Driscoll served for 5 years as an assistant U.S. legal professional within the U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace for the Jap District of Pennsylvania. As a part of the felony division, she prosecuted a big selection of white-collar crime issues within the healthcare business, together with COVID-19-related authorities fraud investigations, theft of pharma-related commerce secrets and techniques, complicated white-collar fraud and cash laundering circumstances.
Reilly has held a number of positions in his decade-long tenure within the EDNY, most not too long ago serving as senior litigation counsel. As a federal prosecutor, he led felony investigations and prosecutions associated to public corruption, funding fraud, business bribery, corruption, cybercrime and tax fraud.
Reilly additionally beforehand served as an assistant legal professional basic dealing with particular investigations within the Workplace of the New York State Legal professional Common and was an aide within the workplace of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
“What was significantly enticing to hiring each Kate and Nathan was their means to assist all kinds of purchasers on all kinds of issues,” stated Carrie Cohen, a New York-based associate within the agency’s investigations and white collar protection group.
With Reilly becoming a member of the workforce, Cohen stated that Morrison & Foerster is forming a state and native authorities enforcement group to assist purchasers which are more and more going through scrutiny from the state, native and different authorities businesses.
MoFo is the newest legislation agency to kind a follow group targeted on responding to actions by state attorneys basic, who’ve change into extra aggressive in pursuing enforcement and coordinating efforts amongst states. Different huge companies which have not too long ago launched state AG practices embrace DLA Piper, Jones Day, O’Melveny & Myers and Crowell & Moring.
In accordance with the agency’s web site, the state and native authorities enforcement group, which Cohen leads, contains 37 attorneys throughout the agency’s workplaces. The brand new follow is a part of the agency’s investigations and white collar protection group, which earlier within the yr additionally tapped Brian Kidd, a decade-plus veteran of the U.S. Division of Justice and former chief of the market integrity and main frauds unit within the felony division’s fraud part.
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