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RICO Litigation & White-Collar Defense<\/h1>\n

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RICO Litigation<\/strong><\/h2>\n

We have superb experience handling cases that arise under the amorphously worded RICO Act. RICO stands for \u201cRacketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations,\u201d and the RICO Act as originally conceived by Congress was intended to ensnare all gangsters and the various companies and entities that they used to launder proceeds from their gangster activities. The RICO Act was therefore cast in very broad, open-ended but also incomprehensible language. Over time, many litigants learned to use this broadly worded statute in order to bring claims against all manner of businesses and people, many of whom never participated in any activity that even remotely resembled \u201cgangster activity\u201d even under the broadest possible definition of the term. The federal courts therefore devised a series of ever more restrictive doctrines to try to discourage these kinds of claims, but along the way they sometimes struggled to reconcile their doctrines with the express language and intended purpose of the RICO Act. It is now\u00a0a very complex area of law in which we can capably analyze claims, bring claims on behalf of RICO victims, and provide sterling defenses of\u00a0claims brought under the Act.<\/p>\n

White-Collar Crimes<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Dorn Bishop<\/a>\u00a0used to\u00a0be a prosecutor in the United States Attorney\u2019s Office for the Southern District of California, and he tried\u00a0many cases to juries and never lost a single one. He\u00a0also has extensive experience litigating RICO matters on behalf of defendants during\u00a0his long, successful career in private practice.\u00a0William Markham<\/a> also has substantial experience litigating RICO matters and can provide first-rate guidance and advocacy to plaintiffs and defendants in these complicated, difficult cases that arise under the RICO statutes.<\/p>\n

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RICO Litigation & White-Collar DefenseRICO Litigation We have superb experience handling cases that arise under the amorphously worded RICO Act. RICO stands for \u201cRacketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations,\u201d and the RICO Act as originally conceived by Congress was intended to ensnare all gangsters and the various companies and entities that they used to launder proceeds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":26569,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"

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