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About Nathan
Experience, Track Record, Bio
Nathan is an attorney with the law firm of Quadrino
Schwartz, with offices in Manhattan and on Long Island. He focuses
on white-collar criminal defense, achieving success for such clients as
a manager of the Bear Stearns subprime hedge funds, and an executive of
an international aviation corporation. He is also skilled at
internal investigations involving complex financial dealings.
Nathan also defends clients charged with serious
felonies such as homicides, enterprise corruption, narcotics, sex crimes
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Experience
Where's he been?
-
Quadrino Schwartz
Criminal Defense & Investigations Group
White-Collar Criminal Defense
(Yup, he got recruited. They made him an offer he
couldn't refuse... so he didn't!)
- The Burney Law Firm
Principal Attorney
White-Collar Criminal Defense
- Manhattan District Attorney
Rackets Bureau
Organized crime, Securities fraud, Racketeering, Money
laundering, Gambling, Political corruption, etc.
- Special Narcotics Prosecutor
Trial Bureau
Narcotics-trafficking, Gangs, Street dealers
- U.S. Attorney, Southern District
of NY
Terrorism & Organized Crime Unit
Don't get excited, he was just an intern
- Sidley & Austin
Special Associate
Appellate lawyering while still in law school
- Supreme Court of the United
States
Personal Assistant to the Chief Justice
Don't get excited, he was a glorified gofer
Education
- Georgetown University Law
Center
J.D. 1997, cum laude
Articles & Notes Editor of The American Criminal Law Review.
Juvenile Justice Clinic student attorney.
- University of Virginia
B.A. 1992
Bar Admissions
- Supreme Court of the
United States
- Southern District of New
York
- Eastern District of New
York
- State of New York
- District of Columbia
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Track Record
What's he done?
- Plenty of trials, many more
hearings, countless court appearances. Frankly, he'd rather be
in court than sitting behind a desk.
- Recent victory against the Antitrust
Division of the Department of Justice: International aviation
executive was indicted on multiple counts involving conspiracy to
steal trade secrets. Executive pled to the entire indictment
while represented by other counsel.
Prosecution calculated enormous losses, and sought a Guidelines
sentence of almost 5 years prison and many millions of dollars in
fines.
Nathan convinced the Court that the losses were nominal at most,
that the Guidelines shouldn't apply, and the client received a
sentence of probation and even got most of the conditions waived.
- Recent victory in the Bear Stearns
case: Client was one of the managers of the subprime hedge funds
being investigated by federal prosecutors for fraud. Nathan
mastered the complex facts, prepared his client, and they were able
to convince the federal prosecutors that the client had done nothing
wrong. Although other managers were indicted, the client was
not charged with anything.
- Recent victory in class action:
Celebration Studios was a wedding photography outfit that charged
brides up front for photo and video packages, sent photographers,
but never provided the photos and videos. Nathan filed a class
action, and the resulting publicity got the attention of law
enforcement. With the efforts of the New Jersey Attorney
General, the brides finally received the photos of their weddings
from years before.
- Recent victory in real estate
dispute: Nathan successfully argued to vacate an $8 million summary
judgment that had been imposed on a real estate developer who had
been represented by other counsel.
- Several recent victories in
marijuana cases, each of which Nathan was able to have dismissed.
- As a prosecutor, Nathan was the
first to indict and convict a labor union at the state level.
He single-handedly ran the investigation that ultimately took down a
capo of the country's largest Mafia family, his organized crime
associates, and the entire leadership of a corrupted labor union.
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Bio
What else has he been up to?
- He has an ongoing lecture series
with West LegalEdCenter called "Hope for Hopeless Cases."
Recent lectures include such things as how to defend internet child
porn cases, how to defend cases involving wiretaps, and how to fight
a case when your client has confessed.
- He writes a blog, "The
Criminal Lawyer," which has a decent following and is listed by
the ABA Journal as one of the more "popular" blawgs.
- He's a published legal author.
Articles include
“Understanding the Investigative Process to Better
Defend Your Client,” in Inside the Minds: Strategies for
Defending Internet Pornography Charges (Thomson 2008); and
Antitrust Violations,
32 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 158
(1995).
- On his off hours, he probably spends
more time hiking and camping than anything else.
- He doesn't remember the last time he
got to watch TV, and he misses it. But there's not enough time
in the day for that.
- Nathan is one of the few criminal
defense attorneys who is actually a Republican.
- Nathan is a member of the Federal
Bar Council, the Federalist Society, a bunch of state and local bar
associations, the Phi Alpha Delta law fraternity, and the Knights of
Columbus.
- He frequently volunteers as an
arbitrator in Small Claims Court.
- He does all his own programming, web
design and graphic design.
- For fun, he writes music for
people's weddings.
- His manual on how to ride a
motorcycle has been translated into several languages around the
world and continues to be widely read, although he himself stopped
riding when his first kid was born.
- Nathan once beat an Olympic fencer
at an epée tournament. It was a fluke.
- He's circled the globe, been to more
countries than U.S. states, and has moved about every other year of
his life. He went to more schools for First Grade alone than
most people go to in their whole lives.
- He used to shoot competitively for
the State of Virginia, as well as for his military school.
- Nathan volunteers as a mock trial
coach or judge every year. He thinks the students on those
teams are better trial lawyers than a lot of the professionals he's
seen in action.
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