Andrew St. Laurent

Ranked in 1 Practice Areas

Band 5

Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations

New York

4 Years Ranked

About

Provided by Andrew St. Laurent

USA

Practice Areas

Criminal and Regulatory, Commercial Litigation, Securities Litigation, Employment Litigation

Career

Andrew St. Laurent is a first-chair trial lawyer, with a depth and breadth of experience in civil, criminal, and regulatory matters. He has tried more than 20 cases to verdict, from federal jury trials, to FINRA, AAA and JAMS arbitrations, to New York State court bench and jury trials, winning civil verdicts for plaintiffs in investment and employment matters and acquittals for defendants in criminal cases, including those charged with fraud, drug, and gun crimes. Mr. St. Laurent has a diverse practice, which includes regulatory and internal investigations, employment litigation, securities litigation, cryptocurrency litigation, and representations of individuals in criminal matters. After beginning his career at leading white-collar criminal defense firm Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason & Anello., P.C., he worked for 5 years as a public defender in Manhattan before joining Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler in 2009. Mr. St. Laurent has been recognized as a Super Lawyer for the past ten years, 2013-2023 and has been Chambers-ranked in Litigation: White Collar Crime and Government Investigations for the last 3 years. He graduated from Brown University in 1994 and received his law degree from Columbia Law School in 1998. He is admitted to the bar of New York, the bars of the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Publications

Mr. St. Laurent has written extensively on criminal and regulatory subjects. Some of his most recent publications include (i) When the Paper Tiger Bites: The Myriad Dangers of Ineffective Compliance Programs — New York Law Journal, March 26, 2021; (ii) The Broad Impact of the Supreme Court’s ‘Lorenzo’ Decision — New York Law Journal, August 26, 2020; (iii) FINRA Enforcement Interview — Wall Street Lawyer, July 2020; (iv) An Introduction to FINRA Enforcement Proceedings — New York Law Journal, June 29, 2020; (v) The Doctrine of Constitutional Immunity — Where Did It Come From and What Does It Do? — Medium, October 29, 2019; (vi) Anatomy of a Guilty Plea — The Champion Magazine, June 2019; and (vii) Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing — A book by Andrew St. Laurent, Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc., August 2004