Linda Ricci

Practice Areas

White Collar Defense & Investigations

Litigation

Trial Practice

Career

Linda M. Ricci, Co-Chair of the Boston Litigation Department, focuses her practice on white collar criminal defense, including matters related to corporate compliance and internal investigations, government investigations, money laundering violations, criminal tax offenses, forfeiture, wire fraud, securities fraud, theft of public funds, obstruction of justice, insider trading, and health care fraud.

Linda draws from more than 15 years of experience working for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, where she served as Chief of the Narcotics and Money Laundering Unit and was a member of the Economic Crimes Unit. During her tenure with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, she represented the United States in all aspects of prosecution, including jury trials, detention hearings, evidentiary hearings, change-of-plea hearings, sentencing hearings, and grand jury proceedings, and she helped develop enforcement strategies and policy guidance in the District of Massachusetts and the New England region. Linda served as the lead prosecutor for several complex international cases resulting in the extradition and prosecution of many foreign nationals on money laundering and drug trafficking charges. She also oversaw the office's criminal narcotics and money laundering investigations focused on the disruption and dismantling of multi-jurisdictional and international drug trafficking organizations and money laundering organizations. She has worked with a large number of federal agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division, the United States Postal Inspection Service, the United States Secret Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations, as well as numerous state and local agencies.

Linda also has experience handling internal investigations in a variety of industries, including the pharmaceutical industry, the medical device industry, the international vitamin industry, and the airline publication industry. She conducts internal investigations, handles grand jury matters, responds to regulatory and law enforcement requests, and provides legal advice to public and private corporations, boards of directors, special committees, and officers and individuals.

Concentrations:

White collar crime

Internal investigations

International crime

Money laundering

Financial crimes

Health care fraud

Securities fraud

COVID-19-related crime

Professional Memberships

Member, Board of Museum Advisors, Museum of Science, Boston, 2023-2026

Women’s White Collar Defense Association, Thought Leadership Committee, 2022-Present

Member, National Charity League, Middlesex Chapter, 2016-Present; Board of Directors, 2017-2021; Parliamentarian/Parliamentarian-Elect, 2019-2021; President/President-Elect, 2017-2019

Yale Law School; Steering Committee Member, Yale Law School Association, New England Region, 2001-Present; Reunion Co-Chair, Yale Law School Class of 1994, 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019; Vice President, Yale Law School Executive Committee, 2002-2006; Admissions Ambassador/Interviewer, Dartmouth College, 2006-Present

Instructor, African Regional Pharma Working Group Roundtable for Francophone West African Nations, Accra, Ghana, 2020

Volunteer, The Middlesex School Parents’ Association, Concord, Massachusetts, 2018-Present

Volunteer, The Fenn School Parents’ Association, Concord, Massachusetts, 2017-2021

Member, Concord Public Schools, School Advisory Council; Concord Middle School, 2016-2018; Willard Elementary School, 2012-2014

Personal

Education:

J.D., Yale Law School, 1994; Editor, Yale Law Journal

B.A., magna cum laude, Dartmouth College, 1991; Phi Beta Kappa

Clerkships:

Hon. John M. Walker, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1995-1996

Hon. John S. Martin, Jr., U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1994-1995