Goodwin

Partner

Rich Strassberg, head of Goodwin’s White Collar Defense and Government Investigations practice, specializes in white collar criminal defense, SEC enforcement proceedings, FCPA compliance and investigations, corporate internal investigations, and complex business and financial litigation. He is a former member of Goodwin’s Executive Committee. Prior to joining the firm, Rich was the Chief of the Major Crimes Unit in the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, responsible for supervising approximately 25 Assistant US Attorneys in the prosecution of white collar criminal cases.

Rich is a Regent of the American College of Trial Lawyers (“ACTL”), one of the premier legal associations in America, and was formerly the Chair of the ACTL’s Downstate NY Committee. He has twice been recognized by The American Lawyer as “Litigator of the Week” as a result of his securing extraordinary victories in some of the most closely followed white collar cases in the country, including the first ever insider trading case involving credit derivatives, the criminal accounting fraud case involving Bristol-Myers Squibb, and the KPMG criminal tax shelter case. Additionally, under Rich’s leadership, Law360 recognized Goodwin’s White Collar Crime and Government Investigations practice as one of the top five white collar practices in the United States.

In 2021, Chambers USA again ranked Rich in Band One for New York-based white collar defense lawyers and as one of the leading trial lawyers nationwide and globally, noting that market sources refer to him as a "really strong and impressive trial lawyer who is very seasoned and effective in the courtroom,” and that he “offers a tremendous amount of experience, judgment and coolheaded sophistication." Chambers has also previously highlighted his “innate ability to connect with judges and jurors, and make complicated fact patterns and sophisticated financial transactions accessible.” He was previously named to Super Lawyers list of the Top 10 New York–Metro white collar lawyers, is recognized by The Legal 500 US as a Leading Lawyer for trial lawyers, corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense, is listed by Who’s Who Legal as a leader in the field of international investigations, and is regularly included in US News Best Lawyers, Global Investigations Review (GIR) 100, and other surveys of top white collar litigators in the US.

JD, 1998, Harvard Law School (cum laude) / BS, 1985, Cornell University (with distinction)