Wiechert, Munk & Goldstein, PC

Wiechert, Munk & Goldstein, PC (“WMG”) is a premier boutique law firm specializing in white collar criminal defense and complex civil litigation. WMG is a majority women-owned law firm. It represents a variety of clients including corporations, corporate executives, physicians and healthcare providers, business owners, and other professionals spanning several industries. WMG has a proven track record of obtaining excellent results for its clients and brings over 75 years of combined experience representing clients in a variety of white collar criminal and regulatory matters in federal and state courts; and has handled numerous high-profile and multi-million dollar white collar cases. WMG brings its decades of expertise, proven experience, and a high quality of work comparable to that of big law, while providing the personalized and cost-effective representation that only a boutique firm can offer. We routinely participate in joint defense agreements with, and practice at the same level as prominent big law firms. David Wiechert, the firm’s managing partner is a former federal prosecutor, and partner Jessica Munk is a former state prosecutor and former law clerk to a Court of Appeals Judge. This former prosecutorial experience allows WMG to “put on the government’s hat” and provide valuable insights and exceptional defense advocacy to WMG’s clients. WMG has extensive experience representing individual and corporate clients in a wide array of criminal matters, including defending against pre and post indictment charges of: mail, wire and bank fraud; securities fraud; healthcare fraud; money laundering; public corruption; insider trading; the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act; the Travel Act; the False Claims Act; the CAN-SPAM Act; honest services fraud; the Clean Water and Clean Air Acts; tax evasion; the Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law; and many other federal and state white collar crimes.

In addition to handling criminal matters, WMG is regularly utilized by clients due to its unique ability to handle regulatory investigations, compliance initiatives, and complex civil litigation expertly and cost effectively. WMG is highly adept at and handles parallel civil enforcement proceedings and regulatory investigations and actions by agencies such as the Securities Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Additionally, its partners have argued cases in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Tax Court; and excel at handling novel matters in often gray areas of the law.

WMG routinely secures excellent results for its clients. A sampling of its successes include:

• A complete dismissal (with zero restitution) for a client indicted of federal felony disability fraud, i.e., wire fraud, in the Northern District of California
• Receipt of a minor misdemeanor with no jail and minimal restitution in a California felony state billing fraud and kickback case
• A diversion agreement and no criminal conviction in a high profile federal and state public bribery case
• Sentencing result of straight probation following conviction for a federal kickback scheme in the Central District of California
• Representation of lead defendant in a federal multi-million-dollar wire fraud case and the first case indicting 18 U.S.C. §1037(a)(5) of the CAN-SPAM Act in the Southern District of California. Trial resulted in mistrial and WMG negotiated extremely favorable plea to misdemeanor with no jail time
• Various prosecution declinations following WMG white paper presentations
• Extremely favorable settlements and/or consent orders for clients with the SEC, FTC and CFPB
• Favorable plea agreement for an individual executive charged in the largest FCPA case against individuals involving hundreds of alleged bribes in over 30 countries

WMG’s attorneys are licensed in California, Tennessee, and Washington. The firm has offices in Orange County, California and Nashville, Tennessee and handles federal white collar criminal cases and regulatory/civil enforcement actions across the country, including for clients located throughout California and Tennessee, as well as in Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, New York, and Washington. WMG can assist at any stage in a matter from pre-indictment through sentencing and provides personalized and experienced advocacy and big law results to its clients at boutique rates.