Catherine Recker has more than thirty years of experience representing individuals and corporations in criminal investigations, trials, appeals and in other government enforcement and regulatory matters.  She is a member of the Board of Regents of the American College of Trial Lawyers, an invitation only fellowship of pre-eminent lawyers in the United States and Canada,  and a member of the American Law Institute.  She defends clients facing the most serious criminal charges and has conducted internal investigations both in the United States and abroad.

 

Her practice reflects a wide range of law enforcement focus on business crimes including securities fraud, tax violations, political corruption, trade and embargo violations, antitrust violations, financial fraud, Food Drug and Cosmetic Act and False Claims Act violations.  She has successfully persuaded prosecutors to decline action against corporate executives, publicly-traded companies as well as small business owners.  Chambers USA ranks her Band 1 for White Collar Crime and Government Investigations.  She was named “Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyer in 2021 and 2014 and one of the Legal Intelligencer’s Women of the Year in 2012.

 

Chief Justice John Roberts appointed Ms. Recker to serve on the Federal Criminal Rules Advisory Committee in 2018.  She was reappointed in 2021. 

 

Ms. Recker was a delegate to the American College of Trial Lawyers’ United States/United Kingdom Legal Exchange in London in 2015 and in Philadelphia and Washington D.C. in 2016.  The Exchange delegates included Supreme Court Justices as well as federal appellate and trial court judges from both countries.

 

Ms. Recker is also a Fellow in the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, an invitation only trial lawyer organization limited to 500 members.