Articles Tagged with parallel prosecution

Michael Pezzulli presents Parallel Prosecution webinar for State Bar of Texas, March 2019Michael Pezzulli conducted a live webinar for the State Bar of Texas on a popular topic, “Criminal Law and Civil Litigators: A Review of Three Little Known Federal Statutes and Parallel Prosecution” in March 2019. Attorneys with civil audit cases with a potential risk of criminal prosecution need to be aware of the many challenges involved to prepare appropriate, balanced strategies for their clients.

The curriculum fulfills 1.50 hours toward Texas MCLE requirements (.75 ethics hours). Attorneys active in the State Bar of Texas can access the recorded webinar (MCLE No: 174038645) at the Texas Bar CLE website. With this topic in high demand, Pezzulli has made the presentation handout available for anyone to download here: Pezzulli SBOT Presentation March 2019

Parallel Prosecution
By Michael Pezzulli and Charles J. Fortunado

State Bar of Texas: Advanced Creditors’ Rights presentation – September, 1996

In the past ten years, the gulf between criminal practice and civil practice has narrowed considerably.There are several causes for this. One is the explosion of white collar criminal litigation. More pervasive use of forfeiture statutes in the pursuit of attorney’s fees has also served to bring civil litigators under the purview of criminal law. The savings and loan and drug crises have also done their part to bring civil litigators’ conduct under scrutiny of criminal statutes.

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