The White Collar Defense Practice Area has extensive experience in the area of commercial law, representing clients in both federal and state courts, and before the Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation. In today’s regulatory and compliance- oriented environment, the White Collar Defense Practice Group focuses on issues of individual and institutional accountability.

Attorneys in this group represent clients on issues relating to traditional white collar criminal investigations and provide counsel on regulatory issues at the state level, including matters before the Ethics Commission, Department of Environmental Management (DEM) and the Department of Business Regulation (DBR). Additionally, we advise clients in regard to issues of corporate and institutional accountability. These issues include the Federal False Claims Act, corporate compliance programs, the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for organizational defendants, personal liability of board members, and the appointment of monitors for organizations.

We also advise clients with respect to recently enacted legislation, legal aspects of corporate internal investigations, corporate director responsibilities, ethics law, the civil prosecution of commercial fraud through RICO, and criminal defense in related matters.