Richard D. Weinberg
Principal
(212) 880-9485
Richard Weinberg has substantial expertise and experience in representing individuals and corporations in investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the United States Department of Justice, and state regulatory agencies, and in conducting corporate internal investigations.
He represents clients in highly sensitive and complex civil litigation and regulatory enforcement matters such as those involving allegations of improper trading, misleading or incomplete disclosure, market manipulation and other forms of financial fraud. He also represents individual and corporate clients in parallel investigations conducted by both the Securities and Exchange Commission and the United States Department of Justice.
Richard rejoined Morvillo Abramowitz as a principal in 2006. He had been a principal at Morvillo Abramowitz during most of the 1990s and left the firm in July 2000 to take a position as Assistant General Counsel and First Vice President of Merrill Lynch.
Richard received his B.S. from Cornell University in 1969 and his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1972 where he was an editor of the Columbia Law Review. He began his legal career as a law clerk for the Honorable Harold R. Medina of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. After his clerkship, he served as an Assistant Special Prosecutor in the Watergate Special Prosecution Force and later as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York where he served as Chief Appellate Attorney. He joined a private law firm as a litigation partner in 1979.
He is admitted in New York and to practice before the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Fifth, Ninth, and District of Columbia Circuits, and the District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
