Personal Background

This blog is maintained and edited by Harlan J. Protass, a criminal defense attorney in New York, NY with a practice devoted to white collar crime and securities regulation matters. These matters have included the defense of the full panoply of criminal prosecutions, including securities fraud, insurance fraud, tax evasion, money laundering, health care fraud, criminal antitrust, environmental and RICO violations and government contract fraud. Mr. Protass has extensive experience representing individuals, financial institutions and corporations at all stages of federal and state criminal investigations and prosecutions, regulatory and enforcement proceedings before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the NASD, the NYSE and state securities regulators, as well as in arbitration proceedings before the NASD and the NYSE.

  • B.S., Cornell University (1988)
  • J.D. (cum laude), Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (Yeshiva University) (1995)
    Cardozo Law Review (1993-1995)
  • Adjunct Professor, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
    (Seminar on Federal Sentencing)
  • Special Counsel, O'Shea Partners LLP (2002-Present)
    Associate, Squadron Ellenoff Plesent & Sheinfeld LLP (1997-2002)
    Associate, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP (1995-1997)
  • Admissions: New York and United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York (1996)
  • Member, Criminal Advocacy Committee, Association of the Bar of the City of New York
    Member, Executive Committee, UJA-Federation Criminal Law Group


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