Criminal Defense
Our Practice - What We Do
Snell & Wilmer’s Criminal Defense practice assists the firm’s clients in defending against all aspects of state and federal “white-collar” criminal investigations and prosecutions. In addition to assisting our clients in coping with the current corporate governance climate, we conduct internal investigations for corporations that have discovered suspected misconduct by their clients, including conduct that victimizes the client such as embezzlement, fraud, or the abuse of corporate assets for illegal activities, and conduct that victimizes third parties such as antitrust violations, consumer fraud, or environmental crimes. These investigations may involve thorough document sweeps and examination, employee interviews, third-party inquiries, reports to management, and coordination and negotiation with federal and state law enforcement authorities. In addition, we develop, implement and audit corporate compliance programs and codes of conduct.
Our Attorneys - Who We Are
Leading our practice are two former federal prosecutors who currently represent clients in the following matters:
- Federal and state grand jury investigations
- Criminal prosecutions from indictment to final resolution
- Internal corporate investigations involving allegations of securities fraud, consumer fraud, and banking fraud
- Criminal violations of antitrust laws, employee and executive embezzlement, and threats of workplace violence
- Criminal compliance advice matters such as working with audit committees and avoiding criminal prohibitions
Our Clients - Who We Represent
We represent corporate and individual clients who are either the subject or target of ongoing grand jury investigations throughout the United States, or who have been indicted. We also represent executives and employees subpoenaed to testify as witnesses in criminal matters. Our experience extends to other criminal defense matters including allegations of drug related crimes by medical professionals, practicing medicine without a license, EPA violations, Federal Corrupt Practices Act matters, customs violations and criminal fraud.
Our Experience - What We've Done
We have experience in tax, securities and antitrust violations, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, health care fraud, consumer fraud, violations of Customs regulations, workplace crimes, embezzlement, EPA violations, banking fraud, mail and wire fraud, and drug-related crimes committed by medical professionals.