Martha Boersch
About Martha Boersch
Martha Boersch is one of the premier white collar defense and trial lawyers in the country. She has decades of experience in complex criminal and civil litigation in federal and state courts and is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Martha has represented clients in numerous federal jury and bench trials and has argued more than a dozen cases in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She has conducted internal corporate investigations for companies in a variety of industries and provides strategic advice to companies, executives, and individuals dealing with grand jury and other government investigations. Martha has deep experience in a broad range of white collar charges, including mail and wire fraud, money laundering, economic espionage, computer fraud and abuse, racketeering, foreign bribery, antitrust, and federal forfeitures. She also has worked extensively on international criminal matters, particularly related to former Soviet Bloc countries, such as Russia, Ukraine and Romania.
Before forming Boersch & Illovsky LLP, Martha spent several years as a litigation partner at the international law firm of Jones Day, and then founded her own boutique defense firm with several partners. Martha had previously served for twelve years as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of California. During her career as a federal prosecutor, the U.S. Attorney chose her to be the Chief of the Organized Crime Strike Force (2002-2004) and the Chief of the Securities Fraud Unit (2001-2002). She was the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s International Security Coordinator and spent a summer in Moscow for the Department of Justice’s Office of International Affairs. In 2009, Martha was awarded the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award, the Department of Justice’s second highest award for employee performance, for her work on a complex international money laundering prosecution involving the former Prime Minister of the Ukraine.
Martha has been named to the Northern California Super Lawyers list as one of the top attorneys in Northern California for 2006 – 2021, and has been identified by the Daily Journal as one of California’s Top Women Litigators. Martha was named as one of the world’s foremost white collar crime lawyers in Who’s Who Legal Business Crime Defense: Corporates for 2018, 2019, and 2020. She has been named in Best Lawyers® since 2012 as one of the best white collar criminal defense practitioners and was recognized as the 2020 Criminal Defense: White Collar “Lawyer of the Year” in Oakland. She received the California Lawyer’s Lawyer of the Year award in 2004.
Martha was recently reappointed by the Chief Judge to serve on the Northern District’s Criminal Practice Committee and she has served a lawyer representative to the Northern District of California. She has served for many years on the Criminal Justice Act panel in San Francisco and Oakland, representing indigent clients. She is a frequent speaker on white collar and international criminal defense topics.
Education
- University of Oregon
1585 E 13th Ave, Eugene, OR 97403 1979 - University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), J.D
225 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720 1986
Practice Areas
- White Collar Criminal Defense
- Corporate Internal Investigations and Governance
- Civil Litigation and Arbitration
- Securities-Related Defense
- Dispute Resolution Services
- Appeals
- Crisis Management
Individuals and companies engage us to represent them in federal grand jury investigations, help them avoid indictment, and defend them vigorously in trials when necessary. We are seasoned trial lawyers with deep experience investigating, prosecuting, and defending against a vast range of allegations, including: investment fraud, price fixing, healthcare and insurance fraud, tax evasion, forfeiture, intellectual property theft, food and drug safety, and political corruption.
Executives, directors, board committees, and organizations retain us to conduct or represent them in internal investigations. We advise directors and executives on governance obligations and assist with structural issues, such as board committee composition or the optimal roles of board members. We work with companies’ legal and compliance teams on risk diagnostics and compliance program implementation.
We handle complex disputes for individuals and organizations asserting or defending against state and federal claims. We have experience in federal multidistrict litigation (MDL) as well as in California coordinated proceedings (JCCP).
We represent individuals and companies in investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and other government and self-regulatory bodies, involving claims such as accounting irregularities, internal controls deficiencies, and abusive trading.
We find creative and effective ways to help parties settle disputes. We have conducted dozens of mediations and can assist in resolving entire cases, narrowing contested legal or factual issues, or simplifying complex damages issues.
We brief and argue criminal and civil cases in federal and state appellate courts.
Organizations and executives contending with corporate crises retain us to help them develop internal and external communication strategies and remedial plans and to coordinate interactions among the companies’ response teams, outside professionals, and government representatives.
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