Profile: Mark Holscher

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Biography: Business Crime

Mark Holscher is a partner resident in Kirkland's Los Angeles and San Francisco offices and a member of the commercial litigation and white-collar criminal defence groups. He has been selected and profiled as a leading trial lawyer for the last several years in Chambers USA, Best Lawyers in America and The International Who's Who of Business Crime Lawyers. In 2002, The American Lawyer selected him as one of the top 45 lawyers in the country under the age of 45. In 2005, USA Today named Mark one of the 10 most prominent criminal trial lawyers in the country. He was a member of the defence team for former Congressman Randall 'Duke' Cunningham and one of the trial lawyers for Jeffrey Skilling's criminal prosecution relating to the collapse of Enron. Mark was named one of California Lawyer's Lawyers of the Year 2000 for his successful defence of Los Alamos nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee against espionage charges. Mark has represented Fortune 500 companies and their executives in a broad range of criminal matters and has served as lead counsel and trial counsel in numerous complex civil litigation matters.

Mark served as an assistant US attorney for the Central District of California from 1989-1995, where he tried complex cases, including RICO, criminal bankruptcy, tax and fraud cases, as well as the Heidi Fleiss tax evasion and money laundering case. In addition, he successfully argued several cases before the 9th Circuit US Court of Appeals during his time with the US Attorney's Office and while in private practice.