Event Type 2: Business & Professional

This one-hour CLE Webinar CLE is aimed at newer prosecutors and defense attorneys who practice at least periodically in the federal courts across the United States. Two renowned criminal attorneys will walk you through each of their perspectives on optimal strategy and presentation at criminal sentencing to truly tell your client’s story to the Judge and obtain the best possible outcome for your client.  Our moderator, Judge Richard E.N. Federico of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, will introduce topics for discussion between the panel members aimed at providing an overview of the relevant law, including United States Sentencing Commission Guidelines, an explanation of the process, examples of “dos and don’ts” and case-specific examples from past sentencing hearings.

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Presenters

Teny Geragos, Partner, Agnifilo Intrater LLP.

Teny Geragos, a founding partner of Agnifilo Intrater LLP, defends individuals in federal and state criminal cases at both the trial and appellate level. Most recently, Ms. Geragos helped secure an acquittal for Sean Combs for the charges of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy in the Southern District of New York. Teny is particularly experienced in defending and investigating allegations of sexual misconduct, which involve complex legal issues and emotionally charged situations. She has represented numerous individuals accused of sexual assault, sexual harassment, or other types of sexual misconduct. Teny has also regularly represented victims of sexual assault and violence, helping them navigate the difficulties of reporting to the police, and cooperating with law enforcement investigations. Finally, Teny has led several internal investigations, including in the construction and healthcare industries.

Prior to founding Agnifilo Intrater LLP, Teny was associated with Brafman & Associates, P.C. for approximately eight years, where she successfully defended a wide range of criminal matters including sex assault, securities fraud, wire fraud, public corruption, tax evasion, narcotics, FCPA, and cases that have potentially serious collateral consequences, such as deportation.

Ms. Geragos has been selected as a SuperLawyers Rising Star for five consecutive years and publishes and speaks regularly on various legal topics ranging from “Gag” Orders to Protective Orders to managing electronic discovery.

Ms. Geragos serves on the Board of Directors of the New York Criminal Bar Association.

Dan Webb, Co-executive Chairman, Winston & Strawn LLP, Chicago, Illinois.

Dan is co-executive chairman of Winston & Strawn and one of the most distinguished and sought-after trial lawyers in the United States. He has tried more than 100 jury cases involving a wide variety of claims and been named a fellow of the prestigious American College of Trial Lawyers. Notably, Dan achieved international acclaim for his successful prosecution of retired Admiral John Poindexter in the Iran-Contra Affair. He served as the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois and has served in special prosecutor or similar roles on several occasions, including for the successful prosecution of actor Jussie Smollett in Chicago, for which he was named Am Law’s “Litigator of the Week” in December 2021.

Dan’s trial practice concentrates in the areas of major commercial, civil, regulatory, and white collar criminal cases. Among his jury cases are numerous successful complex commercial and white collar criminal trials, representing, on several occasions, large corporations in jury trials lasting two months or longer.

Dan has spent his entire professional life as a courtroom trial attorney and litigator. As the U.S. Attorney in Chicago, he spearheaded the “Operation Greylord” investigations into judicial corruption in Cook County, Illinois.

He received national attention for his work as lead trial counsel for General Electric, successfully defending it against criminal price-fixing allegations related to industrial diamonds, as well as for his representations of Microsoft Corp. in its antitrust litigation; Philip Morris in its sprawling tobacco-related litigation; and Verizon in obtaining a US$58M verdict in a patent litigation matter.

Dan delivered a historic win for BPI in its defamation action against ABC News relating to a series of reports by ABC News in which its broadcasters referred to BPI’s product in a defamatory way, leading BPI to massive financial losses. With BPI seeking over US$1.9B in actual damages, the case has been widely reported as the “largest” and “one of the most significant” defamation cases in U.S. history. After weeks of putting on witnesses to prove ABC intentionally and knowingly made nearly 200 hundred false statements about BPI and its product and with our team about to put on damages witnesses, the case settled. The settlement vindicated BPI and put the company on the path to recovery.

A team of Winston attorneys, led by Dan, conducted an internal investigation at the New York Stock Exchange related to the compensation of its former Chairman and CEO, Richard A. Grasso. Following Winston’s investigation, summarized in what is now known as the “Webb Report,” the New York Attorney General’s Office sued Grasso for the return of more than US$120M in compensation.

Other successes for clients in securities matters include obtaining favorable settlements for Ernst & Young in a securities class action brought by stockholders of HealthSouth Corp. and for Cisco Systems in a securities class action brought by the Plumbers & Pipefitters National Pension Fund and obtaining summary judgment for Scientific-Atlanta in a securities fraud class action.

On the antitrust front, Dan successfully represented Wyeth (Pfizer) against an antitrust class action relating to its patented potassium chloride product K-Dur®, C.R. Bard against claims of anti-competitive conduct relating to sales contracts with group purchasing organizations for catheters, and Monsanto against the antitrust claims brought by competitor DuPont relating to Monsanto’s patented Roundup Ready® weed killer.

As for other class action experience, one of Dan’s most significant cases was for Philip Morris. He served as lead trial counsel in Engle, et al. v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., et al., the first—and to date, only—class action brought by cigarette smokers for punitive damages to be tried to verdict. He also served as chief trial counsel for Lexecon in another high-profile class action civil trial that resulted from the failure of Lincoln Savings, the S&L institution owned and operated by Charles Keating, Jr.

Hon. Richard E.N. Federico, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit:

Judge Richard E.N. Federico was nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit by President Joseph R. Biden in July 2023, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate and received his commission in December 2023.  Judge Federico received his J.D. from the University of Kansas School of Law in 2002 and his L.L.M. from Georgetown University Law Center in 2012.

Judge Federico served as a Military Judge with the Navy Reserve Trial Judiciary in Washington, D.C. from 2019-2020 and 2022-2023.  He served as a U.S. Navy Captain in the JAG Corps from 2002-2024, serving in active duty from 2002-2015 and in the select reserves (retired) from 2015-2024.  He also previously served as Trial Counsel at the Naval Station in Norfolk, Virginia, and the Navy Reserve Region Legal Service Office at the Navy Base in San Diego, California.  He also served in the Office of the Federal Public Defender, District of Kansas, from 2017-2023 and was an Assistant Federal Public Defender in the District of Oregon from 2015-2017.  Judge Federico also served as appellate defense counsel in the Navy Reserve Navy-Marine Corps Appellate Review Authority, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C., from 2015-2019, in addition to serving the country in numerous other roles within the U.S. Region Legal Service Office, Office of Military Commissions, Navy Legal Service Office Southeast and Defense Service Office Southeast.

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