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With over twenty-five years of experience in the public and private sectors, Christine Adams is a skilled litigator who specializes in internal investigations, civil litigation, SEC investigations, and white-collar criminal matters. Christine has represented multiple Fortune, including companies in the global media and entertainment, gaming, and banking industries. She has also represented major universities in C-suite and Title IX investigations.. Christine has successfully led dozens of investigations, including for claims of sex- and race-based harassment and discrimination, assault, retaliation, conflicts of interest, breaches of fiduciary duty, anti-competitive conduct, bullying, embezzlement, and fraud.. Before founding The Adams Law Group, Christine served as a federal prosecutor for eleven years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles, where she served as the Defense Contractor Fraud Coordinator for the Central District of California. In that role, she coordinated and directed investigations by federal law enforcement agencies throughout the Central District. She also led multiple complex investigations relating to Department of Defense contracts, aircraft testing, trade secrets, corruption, and other areas. Christine successfully prosecuted a major defense contractor for trade secrets violations in connection with launch services contracts worth billions of dollars, resulting in the largest criminal and civil penalties on record ever imposed on a defense contractor at the time for both the Department of Defense and NASA. Christine served in the Government Fraud and Public Corruption and, subsequently, the Major Frauds sections of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, where she also specialized in complex fraud matters, including SEC investigations, tax, bank and mortgage fraud, and environmental crimes.. Christine also served as an instructor in fraud training programs for federal prosecutors and for several law enforcement agencies. She has received commendations from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Defense Criminal Investigative Service, the Army Criminal Investigation Command, the Department of Justice’s Environmental Crimes Section, the NASA Office of Inspector General, and the Internal Revenue Service.After leaving the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Christine served as Associate General Counsel for The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation. In that role, she advised and represented institutions, including The Broad Center, which trains leaders in public school education, and The Broad, a contemporary art museum, regarding various matters, including negotiations with public entities, litigation involving the museum, and sensitive investigations.. Before she became a federal prosecutor, Christine was a litigator at O’Melveny & Myers, where she specialized in defending against claims of securities fraud, antitrust violations, and white-collar crimes. She also served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable John G. Davies of the United States District Court of the Central District of California.. Christine currently serves on the Pro Bono Civil Rights Panel for the Central District of California. Christine is a past chair and president of the Yale Law School Executive Committee and past chair of the board of The Industry, a non-profit dedicated to creating and producing diverse and inclusive, site-specific art and music in Los Angeles.

Steve Haney is an aggressive litigator and an experienced and successful trial attorney. He does whatever it takes for his clients to win.

Mr. Holmes' practice focuses on complex civil litigation, securities enforcement defense, and other regulatory defense. He represents clients in a broad range of fraud-based matters, including SEC and CFTC investigations, grand jury investigations and criminal and civil litigation involving allegations of financial fraud and related allegations of malfeasance. He also represents clients in proceedings before FINRA, the Department of Insurance, Department of Real Estate, and Board of Accountancy.. Mr. Holmes, an accomplished trial lawyer, recently completed a federal trial regarding securities law claims (defeating all claims of fraud against his client), obtained an approximately $1 million decision in favor of his plaintiff client in a breach of fiduciary duty case tried in state court, obtained an over $1 million award for his client following a securities arbitration, obtained a state court trial verdict for another client (the plaintiff in a breach of contract and fraud case), and obtained a nonsuit for his client in a jury trial following the close of the plaintiffs' case - and these are only a few of his many favorable trial results. Mr. Holmes has also represented clients in appellate matters (most recently affirming a state-court post-trial result he'd earlier obtained for his client), as well as before the Ninth and Tenth Circuit Courts of Appeal (in securities-related matters), and the Delaware Supreme Court (finding in favor of Mr. Holmes' client). While at the SEC, Mr. Holmes led SEC investigations and injunctive/administrative actions, and since entering private practice, has defended - at the investigative and litigation stages - numerous such actions.. Prior to founding what became Holmes, Athey, Cowan & Mermelstein LLP, Mr. Holmes was a shareholder in a Los Angeles-based white collar criminal and civil litigation firm, and was Of Counsel to two national law firms. He also served as a Staff Attorney in the Enforcement Division of the United States Securities & Exchange Commission, and as Corporations Counsel in the Enforcement Division of the California Department of Corporations (now known as the "Department of Financial Protection and Innovation", or DFPI). While at the California Department of Corporations, Mr. Holmes was a founding member of the Internet Compliance and Enforcement ("ICE") unit, and while at the SEC, Mr. Holmes was a member of the Internet Enforcement Branch.

David K. Willingham specializes in white collar criminal defense and complex litigation, and is Co-chair of the firm’s White Collar Crime and Corporate Compliance practice group.

Experienced White Collar Crime attorney serving clients in Los+Angeles and surrounding areas.

Experienced White Collar Crime attorney serving clients in Los+Angeles and surrounding areas.

Experienced White Collar Crime attorney serving clients in Los+Angeles and surrounding areas.

Experienced White Collar Crime attorney serving clients in Los+Angeles and surrounding areas.

Experienced White Collar Crime attorney serving clients in Los+Angeles and surrounding areas.

Experienced White Collar Crime attorney serving clients in Los+Angeles and surrounding areas.

Experienced White Collar Crime attorney serving clients in Los+Angeles and surrounding areas.

Experienced White Collar Crime attorney serving clients in Los+Angeles and surrounding areas.

Experienced White Collar Crime attorney serving clients in Los+Angeles and surrounding areas.

Experienced White Collar Crime attorney serving clients in Los+Angeles and surrounding areas.

Experienced White Collar Crime attorney serving clients in Los+Angeles and surrounding areas.

Experienced White Collar Crime attorney serving clients in Los+Angeles and surrounding areas.

Experienced White Collar Crime attorney serving clients in Los+Angeles and surrounding areas.

Experienced White Collar Crime attorney serving clients in Los+Angeles and surrounding areas.

Experienced White Collar Crime attorney serving clients in Los+Angeles and surrounding areas.

Experienced White Collar Crime attorney serving clients in Los+Angeles and surrounding areas.

Experienced White Collar Crime attorney serving clients in Los+Angeles and surrounding areas.

Experienced White Collar Crime attorney serving clients in Los+Angeles and surrounding areas.