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Mary Anne Wirth

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Direct Dial: 914.287.6108 Fax: 914.683.6956 Email Mary Anne Wirth	Practice Areas Appellate Practice Criminal Defense and Investigations Litigation
Biography Ms. Wirth is the head of our Criminal Defense and Investigations Practice Group, and concentrates in white collar criminal defense work and general civil litigation. She is also a member of the Firm’s Litigation and Appellate Practice Groups. Ms. Wirth has served as Associate Independent Counsel in the Office of the Independent Counsel, Kenneth W. Starr, in Washington D.C. from 1997 to 1998. She was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York from 1983 to 1988, assigned to the Civil Division. She was also an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney’s Office from 1988 to 1996, where she prosecuted homicide and felony cases in the Career Criminal Bureau. She has served as District Counsel for the New York District of the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the United States Department of Justice. Upon graduation from law school, she was a law clerk to the Hon. William Hughes Mulligan of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In addition, she was associated with Davis Polk & Wardwell from 1980 to 1982. Ms. Wirth has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham Law School in the Legal Writing Program since 1987. She has also taught Criminal Law at Pace Law School. Ms. Wirth has been recognized by New York Super Lawyers 2007 and 2008 as being among the top 5% of attorneys in the New York Metropolitan Area in the practice area of White Collar Criminal Defense. Education Fordham University School of Law (J.D., 1978) (cum laude); Member/Editor, Fordham Law Review (1976-78) St. Bonaventure University (B.S., 1975) (summa cum laude) Memberships Ms. Wirth is a member of the Criminal Justice Act panels for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. She also is a member of the Criminal Law Section of the New York State Bar Association, the White Collar Crime Section of the American Bar Association, and the Westchester County Bar Association. Ms. Wirth is a member of the Board of Directors of The Legal Aid Society Of Westchester County. Admissions New York U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit