Jerry Steigman represents individuals and companies in investigations, white-collar criminal prosecutions, and complex civil and antitrust litigation. Representative matters include:

  • Defending chief financial officer of a public company in state criminal prosecution
  • Representing executive in federal multi-district litigation over alleged generic pharmaceutical price fixing
  • Defending witnesses and alleged recipients of stolen money in state judgment enforcement actions
  • Representing trustee in federal bankruptcy adversary proceedings
  • Representing complaining witnesses in state criminal harassment investigations
  • Representing witness in a federal cryptocurrency investigation
  • Representing subpoena recipients in multiple forums, including federal criminal investigations into violations of tax laws, FARA statutes, and corruption in government procurement, as well as in state criminal and federal bankruptcy adversary proceedings
  • Defending physician in a federal health care fraud prosecution
  • Representing multinational life insurance company in a FINRA proceeding
  • Representing witnesses in a state criminal fraud investigation
  • Defending individuals and businesses in federal civil forfeiture action
  • Defending entrepreneur in an SEC enforcement action

Prior to joining the firm, Jerry served for more than eight years as a state fraud and corruption prosecutor. As an Assistant Attorney General in the New York State Office of the Attorney General, in the Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Bureau, he investigated and prosecuted state and local government officials and their associates, and was awarded the Attorney General’s Louis J. Lefkowitz Memorial Award for outstanding performance. As an Assistant District Attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, in the Investigation Division’s Racket’s Bureau, he investigated and prosecuted corruption in business and government, including in long-term eavesdropping investigations, and was trial counsel in several complex fraud cases.

Prior to his service as a prosecutor, Jerry was an associate at Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason & Anello, PC. Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable Joan M. Azrack of the Eastern District of New York.

Jerry is a member of the New York Council of Defense Lawyers. He is a chapter co-author of Defending Federal Criminal Cases: Attacking the Government’s Proof (Law Journal Press 2025). He is also a member of the New York City Bar and serves on its Construction Law Committee.

 

 

 

Education

  • Brooklyn Law School, 2004, cum laude, Executive Notes and Comments Editor, Journal of Law & Policy
  • Binghamton University, BS, BA 1996

Bar Admissions

  • New York, Second Circuit Court of Appeals, EDNY, SDNY