Martha Boersch
Partner
San Francisco
Tel: 1.415.875.5811
Fax: 1.415.875.5700
Email:
mboersch@jonesday.com
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Martha is a trial lawyer who practices corporate criminal defense and complex civil litigation at Jones Day. She represents individuals and companies in criminal and civil enforcement matters involving complex fraud (securities, accounting, health care), the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, money laundering, RICO, the Alien Tort Statute, and antitrust. She has extensive federal criminal jury trial and appellate experience, having served for 12 years as an assistant United States attorney in the Northern District of California, where she represented the United States investigating and prosecuting a wide variety of federal criminal law violations. She served as chief of the Securities Fraud Unit from 2001 to 2002 and chief of the Organized Crime Strike Force from 2002 to 2004.
Martha has conducted numerous criminal investigations and internal corporate investigations. Those investigations have included matters involving organized crime, securities fraud, the FCPA, commercial bribery, and computer crimes and other misconduct.
Martha also has considerable experience in international and national security issues that arise in federal criminal cases, which she gained while serving as chief of the Organized Crime Strike Force, where she specialized in Russian and transnational organized crime.
Martha is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. 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. She is a member of the American Bar Association and serves as a cochair of the White Collar Committee. 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.
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California
Education
University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law (J.D. 1986; Order of the Coif; Comments Editor, California Law Review); University of Oregon (B.A. in Russian Language 1979; Phi Beta Kappa); University of Leningrad (CIEE Exchange Program, 1978)
Government/Military Service
Served as an Assistant United States Attorney, Northern District of California (1992-2004), including as Chief, Securities Fraud Section (2001-2002) and Chief, Organized Crime Strike Force (2002-2004)
Clerkship
Hon. James M. Fitzgerald, United States District Court, District of Alaska (1986-1988)