| Biography:
Mark J. Biros, a partner in the Washington, DC office, co-founded the Firm's Corporate Defense and Investigations Group in 1997. Mark has nearly 35 years of investigative experience as a legislative counsel, former prosecutor and as defense counsel, his current role.
On the federal level, he served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia from 1977 through 1988. He has tried over 100 jury trials. For a period there, he was Deputy Chief of the Felony Trial Division. Later he became a member of the Special Prosecutions Unit, which concentrated on complex international and domestic federal criminal investigations. His investigative experience began as an Assistant Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, known informally as the “Watergate Committee.” His international practice has taken him to the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Ireland, Mexico and Argentina, while focusing upon activities in Europe, the Middle East, South America, the Far East and Africa.
At the state level, he investigated and prosecuted political and police corruption in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was an Assistant Attorney General for several years.
In private practice, he has conducted internal investigations in defense of government allegations of violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, domestic and foreign tax laws, money laundering provisions, bribery, insider trading, anti-trust laws, and government contract fraud, as well as U.S. Customs and environmental law violations. He has helped clients identify internal control issues and establish procedures for compliance under Sarbanes-Oxley, SEC and other regulatory provisions. He has represented organizations and individuals that have been the subject of congressional inquiries.
Mark has been an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center for 25 years. Presently, he teaches Advanced Criminal Procedure. He has lectured on criminal law issues at the Federal Judicial Center, where the attendees were federal judges, and to Bar Associations and meetings of private and government attorneys. He provides the firm’s clients with training on how to conduct internal corporate investigations. In June 2008, he will address the International Bar Association’s 11th Transnational Crime Conference in London.
Mark is a contributing author to two books: Corporate Counsel's Guide to Handling Government Investigations, and Business & Legal Guide to Online Internet Law. He has written numerous articles for a variety of publications, including in-depth articles on internal investigations and white collar crime, which appeared in the D.C.-based Legal Times.
Mark graduated cum laude from Princeton (1970) and received his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center (1973).
Selected Lectures:
Speaker, “Criminal Law Issues Arising from International Conflict” 11th IBA Transnational Crime Conference, London, England, June 2008
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