About Shirley Baccus-Lobel

Shirley Baccus-Lobel’s national practice includes federal criminal trials, appeals and investigations, including internal corporate investigations and regulatory matters. She also handles complex crimes at the State level. She is named in Best Lawyers in America (white collar criminal defense and bet-the-company litigation) and is a Texas Monthly Super Lawyer (white collar criminal defense). She has been named to the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Hall of Fame.

She has represented individuals and businesses under investigation or indictment for alleged mail and wire fraud, public corruption, health care fraud, securities fraud, bank fraud, tax fraud, mortgage fraud, environmental offenses, and other business crimes. She also represents witnesses and businesses in grand jury and regulatory investigations.

Ms. Lobel served with the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D. C. in a supervisory capacity and with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas as Criminal Chief and First Assistant U.S. Attorney prior to entering private practice.

Ms. Lobel has handled several exonerations. Her exonerated clients are listed in the National Registry of Exonerations, University of Michigan, School of Law.

She has written and lectured for numerous professional organizations and has contributed articles to professional journals, including the ABA’s Litigatiion Magazine. Ms. Lobel is a charter fellow of the Dallas Bar Foundation and a life fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation and is a member of the American Bar Association and numerous other professional organizations, including TCDLA and NACDL. She previously served as a board member of the Texas Innocence Project and the Legal Education Institute of TCDLA.