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Marjorie J. Peerce

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TEL: (212) 223-0200	mpeerce@stillmanfriedman.com

Marjorie Peerce joined Stillman & Friedman in 1986 as an associate, and became a member of the firm in 1991. She is exclusively a litigator, with a focus on white collar criminal defense, regulatory matters, and complex civil litigation.

Ms. Peerce has represented both individual and institutional clients in an extremely broad range of matters in New York state and federal courts, as well as in federal districts around the country. The types of matters she has handled include representing individuals in criminal and regulatory investigations concerning violations of the Internal Revenue Code, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), Bank Secrecy Act, and government contract procurement and subsidy fraud.  She has defended individuals in mail fraud, bribery, government contract procurement, government subsidy fraud, immigration fraud, securities fraud, health care fraud, environmental matters, commodities fraud, computer fraud and "hacking" and criminal customs investigations.

In her civil practice she has represented defendants in securities class actions, financial institutions in commercial disputes, employees involved in non-compete disputes, general commercial litigation, matters for several major real estate companies in NYC,  and breast implant products liability cases in the Eastern District of New York for a large Fortune 500 company. She has represented doctors under investigation with the Office of Professional Medical Conduct in New York, as well as lawyers with disciplinary matters pending before the Departmental Disciplinary Committees and a former state employee in a matter with the New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

She has handled numerous matters before various other state and federal regulators. She has also represented a number of senior executives of public companies accused of wrongdoing in resolving employment issues with their companies, as well as several companies who were victimized by the fraudulent activities of employees.

After graduating from Tufts University, magna cum laude, and Georgetown University Law Center, cum laude, where she was the Managing Editor of the Tax Lawyer, Ms. Peerce clerked for the Honorable Vincent L. Broderick, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York. She joined Stillman & Friedman after that clerkship.

Representative matters: 

• Defended a client against criminal RICO charges in fourteen-month trial in the Southern District of New York;     
• Successful defense of a CEO of a public company charged with government contract procurement fraud after a two month trial in District Court in Washington, D.C.;
• Represented numerous executives of public companies in multi-pronged accounting fraud investigations;
• Represented an investigator in a major matter in the Southern District of New York concerning use of experimental drug, resulting in a deferred prosecution agreement;
• Represented a union under investigation for a number of criminal violations, successfully resolving matter with a non-prosecution agreement;
• Represented an employee of a company under indictment for a major customs importation fraud;
• Represent group of employees in a criminal immigration investigation;
• Represent individuals under investigation by various state agencies, including the New York Attorney General's office, the New York City Department of Investigations and Inspectors General of numerous New York City and State agencies;
• Defended an attorney accused of paying kickbacks for the settlement of personal injury cases;
• Represented numerous employees of an accounting firm in investigations all over the country as well as representing the accounting firm itself;
• Represent an auditor of several public companies in several SEC investigations;
• Represent an individual involved in the Deepwater Horizon investigation;
• Handled a number of criminal and regulatory securities fraud cases, including insider trading cases, hedge fund fraud and alleged fraud with PIPE Investments;
• Represented a specialist on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange indicted for securities fraud;
• Represented an elected official charged with receiving a bribe;
• Represented an executive of an international family business charged with mail and tax fraud;
• Represent several employees of a Bank Anti-Money Laundering/Bank Secrecy Act Department in a Department of Justice Investigation;
• Handled several matters related to the Bernard Madoff matter;
• Represented individuals involved with investigations being conducted by Bankruptcy trustees;
• Represented several indigent defendants at trial as appointed counsel while a member of the SDNY Criminal Justice Act panel for 12 years.  

Marjorie was the President of the New York Council of Defense Lawyers, a premier defense lawyers organization in New York City, composed of 240 of the preeminent white collar lawyers in New York. She is currently the Chair of the NYCDL Sentencing Guidelines Committee (a post she also held earlier in her tenure in the organization).  In her service as the Chair of the NYCDL Sentencing Guidelines Committee, she prepares regular submissions to the United States Sentencing Commission on the Guidelines and has testified before the Sentencing Commission on two occasions.

She was an Adjunct Professor at New York University Law School for thirteen years, where she taught a class on Trial Advocacy. She was on the Board of Trustees of the Federal Bar Council, the Editor in Chief of that organization's Newsletter, and edited the third edition of a book on the Sentencing Guidelines. She also serves as a member of a committee of lawyers appointed by the SDNY to assist it in investigating disciplinary complaints filed against lawyers in the SDNY, and recently served as the prosecutor in three matters. 

The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers recently appointed her to serve as one of its three representatives to the American Bar Association's Task Force on the Reform of Federal Sentencing for Economic Crimes. She serves as a member of the State Federal Judicial Advisory Council. She chaired the Criminal Law Committee for the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and served on the Criminal Justice Council of the New York City Bar.   She regularly appears on panels addressing all aspects of criminal defense. Ms. Peerce has been named annually since 2006 in New York Super Lawyers, a peer-review supplement to the New York Times recognizing the top five percent of lawyers in their fields.

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