Paul N. Murphy concentrates his practice on complex corporate litigation, arbitration, and federal enforcement, with emphasis on tax, securities, and financial institutions. He has specialized investigative skills and extensive trial experience handling financial fraud cases, both criminal and civil.

Mr. Murphy served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia and as a Senior Trial Attorney in the Criminal Section, Tax Division, of the U.S. Department of Justice. He represents individuals and entities in matters involving securities, and tax fraud, securities arbitration and broker-dealer regulation, money laundering and asset forfeiture, multi-district civil litigation, and parallel agency administrative and enforcement proceedings. He has lectured at the Attorney General Advocacy Institute and the Internal Revenue Service and he is a former chairman of the Tax Enforcement Subcommittee of the American Bar Association's White Collar Crime Committee. Mr. Murphy is also a Commander in the United States Naval Reserve.

Mr. Murphy is a 1973 graduate of the University of Virginia Law School. He is a member of the bars of Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia, and pending in West Virginia