Richard M Strassberg

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Rich Strassberg, head of Goodwin’s White Collar Defense and Government Investigations practice, specializes in white collar criminal defense, SEC enforcement proceedings, FCPA compliance and investigations, corporate internal investigations, and complex business and financial litigation. He is a former member of Goodwin’s Executive Committee. Prior to joining the firm, Rich was the Chief of the Major Crimes Unit in the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, responsible for supervising approximately 25 Assistant US Attorneys in the prosecution of white collar criminal cases.

Rich is a Regent of the American College of Trial Lawyers (“ACTL”), one of the premier legal associations in America, and was formerly the Chair of the ACTL’s Downstate NY Committee. He has twice been recognized by The American Lawyer as “Litigator of the Week” as a result of his securing extraordinary victories in some of the most closely followed white collar cases in the country, including the first ever insider trading case involving credit derivatives, the criminal accounting fraud case involving Bristol-Myers Squibb, and the KPMG criminal tax shelter case. Additionally, under Rich’s leadership, Law360 recognized Goodwin’s White Collar Crime and Government Investigations practice as one of the top five white collar practices in the United States.

Personal

J.D., Harvard Law School, 1988 (cum laude) ; B.S., Cornell University, 1985 (with distinction)