Profile: Mark E Beck

Business Crime

Biography: Business Crime

Mr Beck is a partner in Orrick's Los Angeles office and a member of the litigation group. He represents clients in complex civil and criminal litigation.

Mr Beck also represents businesses and individuals in state and federal courts and before administrative agencies. He served as counsel to ministries of the Russian Federation in litigation pending in the United States.

Mr Beck has worked on criminal cases of national prominence, acting for publicly held companies, directors and officers. He has defended corporate communications, aerospace and maritime companies; hospitals in health-care fraud proceedings; companies in political corruption investigations; corporations in securities fraud proceedings; and businesses and individuals accused of antitrust, environmental and other violations, among others. His civil practice includes RICO, fraud, contract, health-care, corruption, securities and tax litigation.

He began as a federal prosecutor, and following successful prosecutions for the Los Angeles United States attorney's office, he was appointed an assistant chief of the criminal division, receiving the Department of Justice special achievement award for his service to the United States.

Mr Beck lectures on criminal and civil fraud. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers For Business and The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers.

He has a JD from Georgetown University; and a BA from Stanford University.

He was a co-chair of the ABA white-collar crime money laundering committee and a participant of United States District Court committees.

He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.

He is admitted in California; to the Supreme Court of the United States; to the Ninth and the Federal circuits of the United States Court of Appeals; to the United States District Court; and to the Central District of California.