Overview
Gordon A. Greenberg regularly represents clients in civil and criminal investigations, as well as in trials and congressional hearings. He has significant experience defending clients in high-stakes, bet-the-company matters that have civil and criminal components. Gordon has more than 30 years of experience handling a wide range of business crime investigations and trials.
Previously, Gordon was a federal prosecutor, serving as the chief of the Financial Investigations Unit in the Los Angeles US Attorney’s Office, and was also a state and special federal prosecutor in Chicago. As a prosecutor, he tried several precedent-setting cases including US V. Cuevas, the first extradition of an individual from Switzerland to the United States for money laundering-related offenses, and US v. Barry Minkow, ZZZZ Best, et al., one of the largest securities/money laundering cases tried on the West Coast in the 1980s.
Results
- Represented Dr. Henry Samueli, the co-founder of Broadcom Corporation, who was fully exonerated of wrongdoing in connection with alleged stock-options backdating
- Represented Ross Perot, Sr., and Perot Systems in highly publicized congressional hearings concerning the California energy crisis
- Defended an “American Lawyer Top 25″ national law firm and its lawyers in a criminal investigation involving purported false statements to government regulators
- Represented a non-US government entity being investigated in the United States for false statements to US banking regulators
- Represented the administrators of a highly regarded hospital system in an investigation alleging deceptive billing practices that also involved widely publicized congressional hearings
- Represented manufacturers of aerospace, electronics, consumer and industrial products in criminal investigations for alleged false billing practices, false labeling and flawed quality control programs
- Represented executives of the world’s largest shipping company during an investigation into political contributions
- Defended a corporate executive in the investigation of the Exxon Valdez spill
- Represented an executive of a chain link fence manufacturer in an alleged price-fixing scheme
Recognitions
- Best Lawyers in America, Commercial Litigation and Criminal Defense: White-Collar, 2006-2026
- Chambers USA, Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations, 2004-2023
- Legal 500 US, 2009-2023 and 2025
- Global Investigations Review GIR 100, Recommended, 2023-2024
- Benchmark Litigation, 2013-2020
- Chambers Global, 2015
- Expert Guides, The Best of the Best USA, 2009
- Law & Politics, Southern California Super Lawyer, 2010
- Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America, 2007-2008
- Los Angeles Business Journal, Top 50 trial lawyer in Los Angeles
- Los Angeles/San Francisco Daily Journal, California’s Top 100 Lawyer, 2008
Community
- Los Angeles County Bar Association, White Collar Crime Committee, past chairman
- Federal Judicial Center, served as faculty lecturer
Credentials
Education
Chicago-Kent College of Law, JD, with honors, 1980
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, BA, 1976
Admissions
California
Courts / Agencies
US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
