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Catherine M. Foti has more than 20 years of experience in complex civil and white-collar criminal matters, including frauds, employment discrimination, sexual harassment, and attorney disciplinary matters. She also conducts internal investigations for corporations and counsels individuals involved in such investigations. In 2006, Ms. Foti was listed in New York Super Lawyers – Manhattan Edition.

Ms. Foti received an A.B. cum laude from Harvard University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she was an editor of the Journal of International Law and Politics and a recipient of the Ann Petluck Moses Memorial Award for excellence in writing in the area of criminal law. She joined Morvillo Abramowitz in 1985 and became a principal in 1993.

A member of the board of editors for, and a contributor to, the Business Crimes Bulletin for many years, Ms. Foti is the author of “Banks Still Face Risks Despite New BSA Safe Harbor” (Money Laundering Alert, March 1993) and co-author of “Crime Prevention v. Customers’ Confidentiality” (New York Law Journal, January 14, 1993). She speaks frequently on various topics relating to white-collar criminal cases, including corporate internal investigations, evidence issues, ethics, and attorney disciplinary proceedings.

Currently on the board of directors of the New York Women’s Bar Association, Ms. Foti was a vice president of that organization from 2001 to 2004; co-chaired its Judiciary Committee, of which she is still a member, from September 2003 to June 2005; and co-chaired its Professional Ethics and Discipline Committee from 1995 to 1998. Ms. Foti currently is a member of the New York Council of Defense Lawyers, on whose board she sat from January 2004 to January 2007. She is also a member of the American Bar Association, the Federal Bar Council, and the New York City Bar Association, where she sat on the Committee on Professional Discipline from 1997 to 2000 and on the Criminal Law Committee from 1991 to 1994.

Ms. Foti is admitted in New York and to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States; the Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fourth, and District of Columbia Circuits; and the District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.