Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Year Joined Organization: 1995

Lawyer Overview

Walter Mack has extensive civil and criminal litigation, investigative and regulatory experience in and out of the government. From 1993-1995, he served as Deputy Police Commissioner of New York City for Internal Affairs, where he was in charge of all police investigations of police corruption and brutality and instituted new policies to combat these problems. Prior to that, Mr. Mack was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division, Chief of the Organized Crime Unit and Senior Litigation Counsel within that office. In that capacity he personally investigated and prosecuted at trial a number of complex and significant cases brought in the Southern District of New York. Mr. Mack served as a military police supervisor and a rifle company commander in Vietnam. He also has frequently worked with civil rights organizations, such as the Civilian Complaint Review Board in New York City, during nineteen years serving in or working with government agencies. He served as senior vice-president and associate general counsel at Shearson Lehman, where he supervised and worked with management on securities and employment matters and on compliance investigations.

Practice Areas:

• White Collar Criminal Defense
• Securities Enforcement
• Complex Civil Litigation
• Internal Investigations, Corporate Compliance, and Monitorships
• Criminal Defense and Appeals
• Investigative Services

Areas of Practice

• Criminal Law
• Ethics & Professional Responsibility
• Civil Litigation & Appeals

Representative Cases

• U.S. v. Harold Gleason
• U.S. v. Michele Sindona
• U.S. v. Paul Castellano, et. al.
• U.S. v. Anthony Gaggi, et. al.

West Practice Categories

Criminal Law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Litigation & Appeals

Bar Admissions

• New York, 1973
• U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 1974
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York, 1974

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Bar Association (Member)
• New York State Bar Association (Member)
• The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member)
• New York County Lawyers Association (Member)

Past Employment Positions

• United States Marine Corps, Captain, 1965 - 1968
• Rogers & Well, Litigation Department, Associate, 1971 - 1974
• Southern District of New York, Assistant United State Attorney, 1974 - 1990
• U.S. Attorneys Southern District of New York, Deputy Chief, Criminal Division, 1980 - 1981
• Strike Force Against Organized Crime, Southern District of New York, Chief, 1981 - 1984
• Shearson-Lehman Brothers, Associate General Counsel, 1990 - 1993
• Internal Affairs Bureau, New York City Police Department, Deputy Commissioner of Police, 1993 - 1995
• Shearson-Lehman Brothers, Senior Vice President, 1990 - 1993

Education

• Columbia Law School, New York, New York, 1971
  J.D.
  Honors: Jerome Michael Finalist - Student Advisor
• Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June, 1965
  B.A.
  Honors: cum laude

Address

217 Broadway
New York, NY 10007

Phones

(212) 619-3730

Faxes

(212) 962-5037

Emails

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Websites

http://www.doarlaw.com