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Mr. McCool, a former Federal prosecutor, is an accomplished trial attorney and a skilled advocate.
He has handled 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 SEC enforcement
investigations throughout the United States.
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, money laundering, securities
fraud, government contracting fraud, mortgage and other accounting fraud, as well as non-white collar offenses.
He has also handled complex civil matters involving Title VII, civil rights, constitutional, tort, military,
administrative law issues and asset forfeiture.
Currently, Mr. McCool represents a former military ammunition manufacturing executive in the first large-scale,
FCPA-related FBI sting case in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Recently, Mr. McCool secured the dismissal of a murder charge brought against the owner of a well-known,
District of Columbia nightclub, after the Metropolitan Police Chief announced to the television media that
his client and others beat a man to death.
Last year, following a three-week Kastigar hearing, a Federal judge dismissed all charges against Mr.
McCool’s client, a former Blackwater security contractor, who was indicted for a shooting incident in Baghdad, Iraq.
In 2008, Mr. McCool won a Federal jury trial against the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice in a
case where his client, a former vice president of a national transportation consulting firm, was charged with
giving an illegal gratuity to a public official.
Mr. McCool’s other clients have included executives from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Freddie Mac,
WorldCom, PurchasePro, ITXC, WASA and U.S. Foodservice. He 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 Controller of the Currency.
Mr. McCool has been recognized as one of “Washington’s Top Lawyers” by Washingtonian Magazine, and as
an elite criminal defense lawyer by and SmartCEO Magazine. For 2011, he was named a “rising star” in
the area of corporate compliance by The Ethisphere Institute on 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 has been identified as one of the “Best Lawyers in America” for 2011 by the U.S.
News Media Group. Mr. McCool has also been selected as a “D.C. Super Lawyer” for 2011 by Super Lawyers Magazine
in the area of white collar criminal litigation.
After graduating from law school, Mr. McCool clerked for the Honorable Robert M. Scott in the Superior Court of
the District of Columbia. Following his clerkship, Mr. McCool served with distinction as an Assistant United States
Attorney for the District of Columbia, from 1990 through 1998, in the Superior Court, Criminal, and Civil Divisions.
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