• United States v. Hazelwood (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit): successfully represented Appellant, a company president, in obtaining reversal of convictions and 150-month sentence in $56 million federal wire fraud case [opinion]; and successfully obtained bail pending appeal to permit Appellant to remain at home rather than spending any time in prison [order]. On remand, the government moved to dismiss all charges, and our client was fully exonerated.

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• NetChoice v. Paxton (U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit): represented acclaimed Columbia Law School Professor Philip Hamburger as amicus curiae in support of the Texas Attorney General's appeal against a trade association representing Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. After a victory in the Fifth Circuit, we filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court opposing an emergency application to stay the Fifth Circuit's ruling. [Supreme Court brief; 5th Circuit brief]. In its final decision (another victory), the Fifth Circuit cited our brief favorably on page 16 of its opinion.

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• United States v. Olive (U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee): successfully obtained compassionate release for client serving a 31-year sentence for mail fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering. Sentence was reduced to time served after the client had served 11 years. [opinion]​ 

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• United States v. Omar (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit): represented Defendant, a physician, in $132 million wire-fraud and healthcare-fraud case [brief]​

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• United States v. Clausen (U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania): successfully represented the Defendant, an incarcerated individual, in obtaining compassionate release, reducing a 213-year sentence to 20 years 4 months (time served), where the Defendant had been convicted of possessing a firearm in connection with multiple robberies [opinion]

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• United States v. Maxwell (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit): successfully obtained reversal for the Appellant, an incarcerated individual, whom the district court deemed ineligible for relief under First Step Act​​ [opinion]​

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• United States v. Pannell (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit): won a certificate of appealability on behalf of defendant serving 18-year sentence for armed postal robbery consecutively with 7-year sentence for brandishing a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c); argued that the § 924(c) count was invalid because the robbery is not a "crime of violence" when Pinkerton liability forms the basis for conviction [motion for certificate of appealability; reply; order]

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• Carnes v. United States (U.S. Supreme Court): represented Drug Policy Alliance as amicus curiae in support of the Petitioner's constitutional challenge to the Eighth Circuit's interpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), which prohibits individuals from otherwise-lawful firearm possession after even one instance of unlawful drug use, including medical marijuana use. [Supreme Court brief]​​​

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• United States v. Tagliaferri (U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York): successfully obtained reconsideration for the Defendant, an incarcerated individual who was denied compassionate release [motion]​

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• United States v. Benderoff (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit): represent client who was charged with $63m life-insurance fraud; district court dismissed the charges and the government appealed. The result of the appeal was the government's dismissal of the appeal and the client's complete exoneration. [order]

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• United States v. Borland (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit): represented client in $26m wire-fraud matter; position on appeal was that the district court erred in failing to offset the $26m fraud loss amount by the fair market value of collateral pledged to the investor-victims [brief]​

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• United States v. Bryant (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit): litigated appeal of the denial of compassionate release on behalf of a former police officer serving a 49-year sentence [brief] 
   

• United States v. Lundergan (U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky): successfully obtained bail pending appeal to permit Defendant to remain at home until appeal was decided [order]; assisted local counsel in securing well-below-Guidelines sentence for campaign-finance charges. In Lundergan v. FBI (U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia), defeated the FBI in gaining access to investigative files that the FBI had been unwilling to disclose under FOIA. 
   

• ​Guertin v. United States (U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona): currently representing plaintiff, a former Foreign Service Officer, in a Bivens suit against an investigator who filed false affidavits in order to search his email unconstitutionally and have him indicted on federal fraud charges that were ultimately dismissed; also pursuing a Federal Tort Claims Act suit against the United States.
   

• United States v. Dunham (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit): represented the Defendant, convicted in $50 million fraud matter, in challenge of the validity of a Rule 11 proffer waiver [brief]
   

• Green Island Heaven & Hell, Inc. v. D.C. Alcohol Beverage Control Board (District of Columbia Court of Appeals): represented an immigrant owner of a bar and restaurant in due process challenge to administrative agency's imposition of fine [brief]

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• Doe v. Employer (U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan): represented designer in and settled employment-discrimination lawsuit against large, international corporation (party names withheld for confidentiality).

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• United States v. Mackey (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit): filed amicus brief on behalf of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in support of an internet user who was prosecuted and sentenced to seven months in prison for tweeting memes related to the 2016 presidential election; the prison sentence was suspended pending appeal, which remains ongoing as of 2024 [brief]

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• In re Sanctuary Belize Litigation (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit): represented investors seeking the return of $1.95 million in funds wrongfully seized by the Federal Trade Commission. [brief] 

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• Fournier v. DeVito (D.C. Superior Court): in civil litigation, successfully quashed subpoena served by plaintiff on non-party client. [order]