Overview
Carlton Fields handles all aspects of criminal defense representation and civil cases involving allegations of criminal conduct or similar wrongdoing. We have significant experience in the areas of business, tax, and securities frauds; trade secret theft; money laundering; Medicare and Medicaid frauds; bank fraud; forfeiture matters; and immigration crimes. Our team, which includes more than 20 lawyers with high-level experience as assistant U.S. attorneys, assistant state attorneys, and federal and state public defenders, has tried hundreds of criminal cases to judgment in bench and jury trials.
We regularly:
- Defend clients accused of crimes at trial.
- Defend during grand jury and other government investigations.
- Defend clients charged with crimes or targeted in civil enforcement actions.
- Counsel clients before federal and state courts and agencies including the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- Conduct internal investigations for individual and corporate clients, rooting out fraud and abuse, and helping them design prevention and detection programs.
- Represent individuals and businesses victimized by crime, presenting to both federal and state authorities clients for possible criminal prosecution.
Offers clients wide-ranging litigation expertise across both civil and white-collar crime issues. Held in high regard for its criminal defense and government investigations work and excels in an array of areas including healthcare, tax and securities fraud cases.