Catherine M. Foti
Principal
(212) 880-9530
Catherine M. Foti has more than twenty years of experience in complex civil and white-collar criminal matters, including frauds, employment discrimination, sexual harassment, and attorney disciplinary matters. She conducts internal investigations for corporations and also counsels individuals involved in such investigations. Ms. Foti has been listed in the New York Super Lawyers – Metro Edition every year since 2006 and was inducted into Cambridge Who’s Who in 2009.
Ms. Foti received an A.B. cum laude from Harvard University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she was an editor of the Journal of International Law and Politics and a recipient of the Ann Petluck Moses Memorial Award for excellence in writing in the area of criminal law. She joined Morvillo Abramowitz in 1985 and became a principal in 1993.
Currently a Vice-President of the New York Women’s Bar Association, Ms. Foti was previously a vice president of that organization from 2001 to 2004. She also co-chaired the New York Women’s Bar Association’s Judiciary Committee from September 2003 to June 2005; and co-chaired its Professional Ethics and Discipline Committee from 1995 to 1998. Ms. Foti is a member of the New York Council of Defense Lawyers, on whose board she sat from January 2004 to January 2007. She is also a member of the American Bar Association, the Federal Bar Council, and the New York City Bar Association, where she sat on the Committee on Professional Discipline from 1997 to 2000 and on the Criminal Law Committee from 1991 to 1994. In addition, Ms. Foti was, for many years, a member of the board of editors for, and a contributor to, the Business Crimes Bulletin. She speaks frequently on various topics relating to white-collar criminal cases, including corporate internal investigations, evidence issues, ethics, and attorney disciplinary proceedings.
Ms. Foti is admitted in New York and to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States; the Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fourth, and District of Columbia Circuits; and the District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
