Practice Areas | White Collar & Criminal Defense

Our Practice

At ruth, we are experts in procedure, which makes us comfortable with nuanced subject matters, confident in any forum against any adversary. Our experience spans civil and criminal, state and federal, plaintiff and defense, investigation, trial, and appeal. Your world may be new to us; litigation is not. We embrace the uniqueness and novelty of your case, while also relying on the strategy, people skills, and litigation know-how common to every area of our practice.

Some of our past cases involve the following legal areas:

Wire fraud
Healthcare fraud
Tax fraud
Narcotics
Honest services fraud and related public corruption offenses
Bankruptcy embezzlement
Aggravated identity theft
Drug distribution
Hobbs Act Robbery
Robbery
Kidnapping
Murder
Customs and import/export offenses
Federal Drug Administration regulations, including misbranding offenses
Possession and receipt of CSAM
Civil rights and excessive force
Employment, including wage-and-hour laws and wrongful retaliation/termination claims
Trade secret theft
Business and partnership issues
Fraud in mergers and acquisitions
Restraining orders
False Claims Act, state and federal investigations and litigation, representing whistleblowers/qui tam relators and, on the other side, individual and entity defendants.
Securities laws, including SEC investigations and litigation, disputes between private parties, and “plaintiff-side” derivative shareholder actions in federal court and the Delaware Court of Chancery.
Minor's compromise
Expungement
Early termination of probation

And our past cases span the spectrum of industry and subject matter, including:

While this overall experience informs our process, clients are the subject matter experts of their own cases. With the help of our clients, we master the facts to outsmart the opposition.