Robert G. Morvillo
Principal
1938 - 2011
Robert G. Morvillo was one of the most experienced white-collar criminal defense attorneys in the country.
He received the New York Council of Defense Lawyers' Norman Ostrow Award for significant contribution to the defense function in March 2000, and was listed in Chambers USA - America's Leading Lawyers for Business, The Best Lawyers in America, and New York Magazine - The New York Area's Best Lawyers. He was also included among the Top 10 lawyers in New York Super Lawyers - Manhattan Edition and was named Business Crime Lawyer of 2006 by The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers.
Robert received a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and an editor of the Law Review. He served in the Southern District of New York, first as law clerk for U.S. District Judge William B. Herlands, then as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Chief Trial Assistant in charge of the Frauds Unit, and finally Chief of the Criminal Division. He left that office in 1973 to become a founding partner of a predecessor to Morvillo Abramowitz.
Robert was an editor of White Collar Crime: Business and Regulatory Offenses (Law Journal Seminars Press, 1990) and a co-author of the "White-Collar Crime" column in the New York Law Journal. A former lecturer in law (trial practice) at Columbia University Law School, he was frequently invited to speak on various topics related to white-collar criminal cases. Among groups he has addressed are the American Bar Association, the Federal Bar Council, the New York City Bar Association, the New York County Lawyers' Association, the New York Council of Defense Lawyers, and the American College of Trial Lawyers.
He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Bar Foundation, a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and a member of the New York City, New York State, and American Bar Associations. He also served as chair of the New York Downstate Committee of the American College of Trial Lawyers, secretary of the Federal Bar Council, and president of the New York Council of Defense Lawyers. He was a member of the disciplinary committee, First Department.
Robert was admitted in New York and to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, the Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Ninth, Tenth, and District of Columbia Circuits, and the District Courts of the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
