Professional Experience

Mr. Reich's practice focuses on white collar criminal and complex civil litigation matters and he is the Co-Director of the Firm's Corporate Defense and White Collar Practice Group, which handles high-profile investigations and lawsuits.  He is a highly-skilled and experienced trial lawyer who is comfortable on the national stage and to whom companies and individuals turn for representation in their most important matters.  He also serves as a member of the Firm's Board of Directors.
 
In 2004, Mr. Reich led a team of Manatt lawyers when he served as Special Counsel to a Select Committee of the Connecticut General Assembly considering whether to recommend the impeachment of then-Governor John Rowland.  After eight days of televised evidentiary hearings led by Mr. Reich, Governor Rowland resigned from office.  He won national acclaim for his handling of the inquiry, with the New York Times calling his performance "authoritative" in a front-page article. 

More recently, Mr. Reich has represented:

• The former CEO of a well-known publicly traded company in a criminal stock options backdating investigation and related SEC and private plaintiff litigation;
• The former Chief of Staff to the Governor of New York State in an investigation of alleged misuse of State resources by Executive Branch officials;
  
• A leading vacuum manufacturer in false advertising litigation brought by a competitor;
  
• A leading razor manufacturer in false advertising litigation brought against a competitor;
  
• Executives of a pharmaceutical manufacturer and a pharmaceutical distributor in multiple investigations of alleged off-label promotion.

Before joining Manatt, Mr. Reich served as Senior Associate Counsel to President Bill Clinton, a position in which he supervised a team of lawyers and press personnel that responded to investigations of White House officials conducted by independent counsels, federal prosecutors and congressional committees.  Mr. Reich also represented White House officials during depositions, grand jury proceedings and congressional testimony, and supervised the defense of civil litigation filed against the White House and its personnel.

Mr. Reich previously served as impeachment counsel to then-Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle and the Democratic Members of the United States Senate during the impeachment trial of President Clinton.  Before that, he served as  Deputy Chief Investigative Counsel to the Democratic Members of the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment of President Clinton.  Mr. Reich joined the staff of the Judiciary Committee after serving as an Assistant Federal Public Defender for the District of Maryland, a position in which he tried numerous federal criminal cases to a jury.  He began the practice of law as an associate at the law firm of Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Reich is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Columbia College in New York.  He received his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.  He is admitted to practice in New York State and the District of Columbia.

Education

Columbia Law School, J.D., 1986.

   Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
   Editor, Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems

Columbia College, B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, 1983.

Memberships & Activities

Admitted, New York; District of Columbia

Admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court and Courts of Appeals and Federal District Courts throughout the country

Past member, Board of Directors of the New York Council of Defense Lawyers

Past member, Criminal Advocacy Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York

Member, Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court in the District of Columbia

Member, Board of Editors of the Business Crimes Bulletin

Honors & Awards

Named as one of the “Lawdragon 3000 Leading Lawyers in America,” 2008, 2007, 2006.

Named as one of the “New York Super Lawyers,” 2006-2009.

Publications