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Mr. McCool is a former federal prosecutor and experienced trial attorney. He has been lead counsel in more than 75 criminal and civil trials before juries and judges in the District of Columbia and Maryland. Mr. McCool has argued before federal and other appellate courts in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia. He has also represented clients in criminal and enforcement investigations throughout the United States.
Recently, following three-weeks of testimony at a Kastigar hearing before the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Mr. McCool obtained a dismissal of all charges against his client, Donald Ball, a former Blackwater security contractor, who was charged with 14 counts of manslaughter, 20 counts of attempted manslaughter and firearms offenses stemming from a firefight in Baghdad, Iraq.
In June 2008, Mr. McCool won a jury trial in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia for a Vice President of a national transportation consulting firm who was charged with bribery-related offenses by the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
In addition, Mr. McCool has successfully represented several lobbyists and congressional staffers in the Abramoff investigation, and he successfully defended the Board of Directors of an Illinois bank in a matter brought by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, U.S. Department of the Treasury.
Mr. McCool has extensive experience representing clients in a wide variety of cases relating to the False Claims Act, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, RICO, the Clean Water Act, bank fraud, securities fraud, government contracting fraud, mortgage and other accounting fraud, and murder. He has also handled cases involving Title VII, civil rights, constitutional, tort, military, administrative law and asset forfeiture issues.
His clients have included executives from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Freddie Mac, WorldCom, PurchasePro, ITXC, the Washington Area Sewer Authority, and U.S. Foodservice.
Mr. McCool has been recognized as an elite criminal defense lawyer by Washingtonian Magazine and SmartCEO Magazine. He was named a “rising star” in the area of corporate compliance by The Ethisphere Institute in its Attorneys Who Matter list, which recognizes leading legal professionals that have excelled in and made a significant contribution to the corporate compliance arena.
Mr. McCool was also selected to appear in the 2010 edition of Super Lawyers, in the area of white collar criminal litigation. Super Lawyers is a listing of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.
Upon graduation from law school, Mr. McCool served as a law clerk for the Honorable Robert M. Scott in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Following his clerkship, Mr. McCool became an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, where he served with distinction from 1990 through 1998 in the Criminal, Superior Court, and Civil Divisions.
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