Rita Glavin

Practice Areas

Rita represents clients in a wide range of White-Collar Criminal matters involving insider trading, money laundering, securities law violations, FCPA violations, public corruption matters, campaign finance violations, fraud, cybercrime, and theft of trade secrets.

She represents clients in all aspects of governmental investigations, regulatory enforcement and compliance matters, as well as clients seeking internal investigations. A seasoned trial lawyer, she has served as trial counsel in 20 federal jury trials and handled numerous appeals.

Career

Rita was a federal prosecutor for almost 12 years in the U.S. Department of Justice and served as Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division in 2009, where she supervised more than 400 attorneys in enforcing federal law. She was a prosecutor with the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section from 1998 to 2003, and from 2003 to 2010 she was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York. Ms. Glavin began her legal career as a Law Clerk to the Honorable John F. Keenan, Southern District of New York.

Personal

Fordham University School of Law, J.D., 1996, Order of the Coif, Fordham Law Review, Editor-in-Chief

Middlebury College, B.A., 1993, magna cum laude