Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Martha Boersch is a trial lawyer with more than 20 years of experience in private practice and as a federal prosecutor. Martha's practice at Jones Day includes corporate criminal defense and complex civil litigation representing both individuals and companies in criminal and civil enforcement matters involving securities fraud, accounting fraud, health care fraud, mail and wire fraud, corruption, money laundering, and antitrust. Martha has investigated and litigated cases involving numerous federal statutes, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the False Claims Act, RICO, the Alien Tort Statute, and the antitrust, wire and mail fraud, and money laundering laws. During her career, Martha has successfully served as lead or co-lead counsel in more than a dozen federal jury trials and has argued more than 20 cases before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Before joining Jones Day, Martha served for 12 years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of California, where she investigated and prosecuted a wide range of federal criminal offenses. She was chief of the Securities Fraud Unit from 2001 to 2002 and chief of the Organized Crime Strike Force from 2002 to 2004, where she used her Russian language skills to investigate and prosecute Russian organized crime cases, including the successful money laundering prosecution of a former Prime Minister of Ukraine. Martha also served as the International and National Security Coordinator, reviewing and coordinating international requests for judicial assistance, and, after the September 11 attacks, as the Anti-Terrorism Coordinator to liaison and coordinate with local law enforcement agencies.

Martha's recent representations have included individuals and companies under grand jury investigation for stock option backdating, antitrust violations, public corruption, and off-label marketing. She has conducted internal corporate investigations in matters involving alleged fraud, embezzlement, theft of trade secrets, bribery, and public safety violations. She has served as counsel in complex civil matters involving the False Claims Act , RICO, the Sherman Act, and other state and federal statutes.

Martha is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and currently serves as the Vice-Chair of the Federal Criminal Procedure Committee. She is a member of the American Bar Association and served as a Co-Chair of the White Collar Committee, and she is also a member of the Federal Bar Association and currently serves as one of the Lawyer Representatives to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. In 2005 and 2006, Martha was selected one of California's "Top 75 Women Litigators," and in 2004 was one of 41 lawyers selected by California Lawyer magazine for the "Lawyer of the Year" in their fields.

Areas of Practice

• Corporate Criminal Investigations
• Trial Practice
• Alternative Dispute Resolution & Mediation
• International Litigation & Arbitration
• Securities and Shareholder Litigation & SEC Enforcement
• SEC Investigations & Proceedings
• Corporate Compliance Programs

Representative Cases

• Bowoto v. Chevron Corporation, No. C 99-02506 SI (N.D. Cal.) , (2008)
• Bush v. Cheaptickets, Inc., 425 F.3d 683 (9th Cir. 2005)
• Englund v. County of Los Angeles
• In re Tableware Antitrust Litigation (N.D. Cal. 2007)
• Accounting Fraud investigation
• Alien Tort Statute Claims
• Corruption investigation
• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)
• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) Investigation
• Stock option back-dating investigations

West Practice Categories

Bankruptcy Litigation, Capital Markets, Class Actions, Commodities, Complex Litigation, Criminal Fraud, Criminal Law, Federal, Federal Appellate Practice, Federal Claims Court, Federal Trial Practice, Felonies, Foreign Investment, Grand Jury Proceedings, International Trade Litigation, Litigation & Appeals, Military & Veterans Appeals, Multidistrict Litigation, Patent Litigation, Private Placements, Public Offerings, Securities Fraud & Insider Trading, Securities Law, Securities Regulation, State Appellate Practice, State Trial Practice, Tax Litigation, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, US Supreme Court, Victims' Rights, White Collar Crimes

Bar Admissions

• California

Education

• U of California - Berkeley

Published Works

• Supreme Court’s Decision in Rockwell May Resolve False Claims Act Circuit Split on Meaning of "Original Source" for Purposes of Public Disclosure Bar, 2006

Address

555 California Street
26th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94104

Phones

1.415.875.5811 (Business Phone)

Faxes

1.415.875.5700 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

http://www.jonesday.com