Ira Lee Sorkin is the co-leader of the Firmâs SecuritiesâLitigation, Regulatory, and Compliance and White Collar Criminal Defense & Investigations Practices. Mr. Sorkin focuses his practice on white-collar criminal defense, arbitrations, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement and other regulatory investigations and proceedings, New York Stock Exchange and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA, formerly known as the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD)) defense, and criminal and civil litigation.
An Overview of SEC Investigations, Practising Law Institute, January 01, 1980
Disciplinary Actions Before Self-Regulatory Organizations, Practising Law Institute
Civil RICO In Mail, Wire, Securities and Fraud Commodities Fraud Cases, Law Journal Seminars-Press, 1980
"Sec Investigations", Report of Securities Regulations, 1980
A Practical Guide to Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, Client Advisory, July, 2003
Insider Trading Under Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act, Securities Law Techniques, ed. A.A. Sommer, Jr., Chapter 28, 1995
Thompson, Holder and Seaboard – Do They Frustrate the Prevention, Discovery and Punishment of Crime?, April, 2003
Classes/Seminars Taught:
Irregulatory Structure of Securities in the U.S., Hebrew University, Executive Masters Program for Business AdministrationSpeaker, Hebrew University, Executive Masters Program for Business AdministrationSpeaker, International Corporate Practice Ethical and Legal ConsiderationsWorking With the Audit Committee Where Wrongdoing is Found, American Conference Institute’s 5th Annual Corporate Counsel Forum on Conducting & Responding to InvestigationsCompanies in Crisis: Coordinating a Response to Allegations of Financial Fraud, Association of the Bar of the City of New York
Association of the Bar of City of New York MemberNew York County Lawyers Association MemberNew York Council of Defense Lawyers MemberNational Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers MemberAssociation of SEC Alumni Member
Past Employment Positions:
Securities and Exchange Commission New York Office, Director,
1984
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1986Criminal Division of U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Deputy Chief,
1971
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1976Squadron Ellenoff Plesent & Sheinfeld LLP, New YorkCarter, Ledyard & Milburn LLP, Wall Street, Partner,
2002
Birth Information:
1943, New York, New York, United States of America
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