Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations

Cohen Williams brings experience, compassion, strategic thinking, and sound judgment to our representation of our clients undergoing government scrutiny. We have successfully advocated on behalf of entrepreneurs, high-level executives, legal and medical professionals, organizations, and institutions nationwide in connection with a wide range of criminal charges, including financial, accounting, and computer crimes, investment fraud and insider trading, money laundering, Ponzi and pyramid schemes, racketeering and RICO violations, anti-corruption, kickbacks, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, false claims, witness tampering, import-export offenses, and virtually every kind of fraud.

When defending clients accused of misconduct, we have a singular goal: to ethically and efficiently obtain the best possible result. Our team devotes significant time and resources to pre-indictment advocacy, which regularly leads to declinations to prosecute and deferred prosecution agreements. We also frequently persuade prosecutors to file reduced charges as part of a favorable plea deal. And if a person's liberty or company's future must be defended in court, the CW team wages a strategic and vigorous battle to defend our client. Our lawyers have first-chaired dozens of jury trials all over the country, several of which have made headlines. We are confident, skilled, and forceful courtroom advocates who excel at crafting—and communicating—winning narratives that convince judges and juries.