Computer Crime Attorneys

Our origin story. The Third Circuit unanimously vacated Andrew Auernheimer's CFAA conviction, setting precedent on computer crime venue that courts and scholars still cite. The case is the subject of the documentary Troll Inc.

We represented a client accused of DDoS attacks on a congressional campaign website during a contested California election, first reported by Rolling Stone. He faced up to ten years in prison. The Firm negotiated the case down to no prison time, probation, community service, and a fine.

Armed FBI agents raided a security researcher's home after he found unsecured patient data and reported it. We negotiated the federal felony computer-crime case into a single misdemeanor without a custodial sentence.

The Firm represented co-defendant Anthony Conti at trial in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) and on appeal from a LIBOR interest-rate-manipulation conviction. The Second Circuit reversed the conviction on Fifth Amendment grounds.

The FBI obtained a FISA warrant based on allegations that Keith Gartenlaub, a Boeing IT manager, provided classified aircraft designs to China, though no evidence established that he did so. As co-counsel with John D. Cline, and later in a petition for certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court, we challenged the warrant’s secrecy and argued that defendants have Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights to examine the basis for a search whose evidence is used against them.

The Firm represented a hacktivist who helped expose evidence in the Steubenville sexual assault case. He faced up to sixteen years; we negotiated twenty-four months.