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Gordon A. Greenberg is a partner in the Trial Department, resident in McDermott Will & Emery's Los Angeles office. Mr. Greenberg has more than 25 years of experience handling a wide range of business crime investigations and trials.
Mr. Greenberg was a federal prosecutor, serving as the Chief of the Financial Investigations Unit in the Los Angeles U.S. Attorney's Office, and was also a state and special federal prosecutor in Chicago. As a prosecutor, he tried several precedent-setting cases that include U.S. v. Cuevas, the first extradition of an individual from Switzerland to the United States for money laundering-related offenses, and U.S. v. Barry Minkow, ZZZZ Best, et al., one of the largest securities/money laundering cases tried on the West Coast in the 1980s.
In Mr. Greenberg's current capacity as a partner at McDermott Will & Emery, he regularly represents clients in civil and criminal investigations, trials and congressional hearings. He often defends clients in high stakes "bet your company" matters that have civil and criminal components.
Mr. Greenberg is acknowledged by the Los Angeles Business Journal as one of the top 50 trial lawyers in Los Angeles and is recognized in his field of practice in The Best Lawyers in America. He achieved the highest possible rank in white-collar and government litigation in the 2005 and 2006 editions of Chambers USA. Representative matters handled by Mr. Greenberg include:
Mr. Greenberg is active in local and national bar associations and recently served as the chairman of the Los Angeles County Bar Association's White Collar Crime Committee. He also served as a faculty lecturer to the Federal Judicial Center, the organization that provides federal judges with continuing legal education. He is admitted to practice in California as well as before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh and Ninth Circuits.
Education:
Chicago-Kent College of Law, J.D. (with honors), 1980
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, B.A., 1976 | 