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Elkan Abramowitz is a leading white-collar criminal defense attorney experienced in handling civil and criminal matters in state and federal court for individual and corporate clients. He is also the recipient of the 1999 Milton S. Gould Award for Outstanding Oral Advocacy presented by the Office of the Appellate Defender, and is listed in Chambers USA – America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The Best Lawyers in America, New York Magazine – The New York Area’s Best Lawyers, and New York Super Lawyers – Manhattan Edition.  In 2008, Mr. Abramowitz was honored with the New York Council of Defense Lawyers’ Norman S. Ostrow award for the defense of liberty and the preservation of individual rights.

After graduating from Brown University, Mr. Abramowitz received an LL.B. from New York University School of Law, where he was a Pomeroy Scholar and an editor of the Law Review. After clerking for the Honorable Inzer B. Wyatt, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York, he became an Assistant U.S. Attorney there. He served as Assistant Deputy Mayor for the City of New York and as a Special Counsel to the Select Committee on Crimes for the U.S. House of Representatives before becoming Chief of the Criminal Division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 1976.

Mr. Abramowitz became a principal at a predecessor to Morvillo Abramowitz in 1979. He was appointed Special Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Investigation for the City of New York in 1990 to investigate a stock transfer by Mayor David Dinkins to his son. He served as counsel to the Special Master in the garment center antitrust case in 1992.

Mr. Abramowitz is a co-author of “Corporate Sentencing: A Current Perspective” (New York State Bar Association, 1991) and of the “White-Collar Crime” column in the New York Law Journal. A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a former director of the New York Council of Defense Lawyers, he is also a member of the New York State and American Bar Associations, the New York City Bar Association (past member of the Criminal Law, Federal Courts, Ethics, and Judiciary Committees), and the Federal Bar Council.

Mr. Abramowitz is admitted in New York and to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.