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Education:

• J.D. cum laude, Harvard Law School
  • Articles Editor, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
  • Public Interest Fellowship
• B.A. with Distinction, University of Michigan
• M.A. with Distinction, University of Michigan

Clerkship:

• The Honorable Charles S. Haight, Jr., United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1982-1984

Bar Admissions:

• New York State
• United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
• United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• United States Tax Court

Memberships, Boards and Committee Service:

• New York Council of Defense Lawyers
  • Board of Directors
  • Membership Committee
• Association of the Bar of the City of New York
  • Criminal Law and Litigation Committees
• American Bar Association
  • Criminal Justice and Litigation Sections
• Federal Bar Council

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Catherine L. Redlich

Catherine Redlich has been a white-collar criminal defense attorney for close to twenty-five years, specializing in securities matters, tax and accounting fraud, public corruption, criminal antitrust, money laundering, sentencing litigation, and criminal appellate work. She received her law degree cum laude from the Harvard Law School, where she served as Articles Editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review and was awarded a Public Interest Fellowship. She holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees, with Distinction, from the University of Michigan, and worked for a number of years as an editor and writer prior to law school. From 1982 - 1984, Ms. Redlich served as law clerk to the Honorable Charles S. Haight, Jr., United States District Court Judge for the Southern District of New York.

Ms. Redlich's interest in white-collar criminal defense developed during her federal clerkship in Manhattan, the venue for many high-profile business prosecutions. She joined a prominent white-collar defense firm in New York following her clerkship, and became a partner in 1988. In 1994, she and Peter Driscoll made the decision to establish their own firm, with the intention of creating and maintaining a small, high-quality practice that would enable the firm's partners to handle client matters personally rather than routinely delegating to junior partners and associates.

Ms. Redlich frequently represents principals, senior executives, and employees of investment banking firms, brokerage firms, and hedge funds in state and federal securities prosecutions, as well as in civil enforcement matters and internal corporate investigations. Her clients also regularly include attorneys, physicians, accountants, business owners and other professionals in investigations of offenses ranging from bankruptcy fraud to tax crimes to environmental and customs violations.

Recent matters include representation of several senior executives in SEC, NYSE, and New York Attorney General investigations of mutual fund trading practices; the portfolio manager of a billion-dollar hedge fund in SEC and Department of Justice investigations of the fund's collapse following a decline in the subprime mortgage market; a senior managing director of a global investment firm in a SEC investigation of false financial reporting; employees of a major specialist firm on the New York Stock Exchange in investigations by the DOJ, the SEC, and the NYSE; an airline company in a Department of Justice antitrust investigation; an individual in a federal grand jury investigation of corporate espionage; a senior managing director of a global investment firm in a SEC investigation of false financial reporting; and an employee of a global financial services firm charged with insider trading.

Ms. Redlich is an active member of several bar associations and often participates as a panelist or speaker on criminal law topics. In 2001, she was elected to the Board of Directors of the New York Council of Defense Lawyers, the premier white-collar defense organization in New York, and currently serves on its Membership Committee. She is also a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, where she has served on the Criminal Law and Litigation Committees; the American Bar Association, sections on Criminal Justice and Litigation; and the Federal Bar Council. Her written and oral presentations include:

Author and Panelist: "The ABC’s of Federal Criminal Litigation: Exploring Dispositions," Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Center for Continuing Legal Education

Author: "Representation Prior to a Criminal Tax Investigation," American Bar Association, Center for Continuing Legal Education

Author: 'Prosecutors Wield Powerful Weapon of Civil Forfeiture," New York Law Journal

Panelist: "The New Federal Sentencing Guidelines: Overhauled and Unveiled," Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Center for Continuing Legal Education

Speaker: "Careers in Criminal Law," The Harvard Law School

Moderator: "Counseling the Client Facing Prison," The New York Council of Defense Lawyers and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Center for Continuing Legal Education

Ms. Redlich is active outside of the legal community in many civic and philanthropic activities. She currently serves as Co-Chairman of the Leadership Board of the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program at the University of Michigan; as a Director and Vice-President of the Ridgewood Public Library Foundation; and as Trustee of a private Charitable Foundation focused on educational reform, foster-care initiatives, and the welfare of children.