|
mmonico@monicopavich.com
Telephone:
Facsimile:
|
312-782-8500
312-759-2000
|
Academics
Law: Northwestern University, J.D. (1973)
Undergraduate: Georgetown University, B.A. (1969)
Bar Admission(s)
Illinois Bar (1973)
U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second, Sixth and Seventh Circuits, and the U.S. District Court, Northern and Central Districts of Illinois (1982)
|
|
|
|
Michael D. Monico was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois from 1973 through 1977. Recognized as one of the premier criminal defense attorneys in the country, for the past twenty-seven years Mr. Monico has represented individuals and corporations throughout the United States who have been the subject of federal and state criminal and regulatory investigations.
He has been named to "The Best Lawyers In America" from 1991 to the present. He is President-Elect of the American Board of Criminal Lawyers, and a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the American College of Trial Lawyers. He and his partner, Barry Spevack, authored the only treatise on federal criminal law in the seventh circuit, titled: Federal Criminal Practice: A Seventh Circuit Handbook, now in its seventh edition.
Mr. Monico has been involved in many notable cases. Most recently he represented a pharmaceutical company executive in a Medicare fraud prosecution in Boston federal court. After a ten week trial, his client was granted a judgment of acquittal at the close of all the evidence. He has also won acquittals in three separate criminal antitrust prosecutions in Kansas City, Peoria and Chicago. He represented the only lawyer acquitted in the Operation Greylord prosecutions in Chicago, an undercover operation that targeted corrupt judges and lawyers.
Mr. Monico comments regularly on television and radio about legal issues of national and local importance. He is frequently asked to speak at seminars on trial advocacy. He has taught trial advocacy at NITA, as well as at three Chicago area law schools.
Publications
- Co-Author, Federal Criminal Practice: A Seventh Circuit Handbook (2000 through 2006) Mathew Bender & Co., a division of LexisNexis Group
- "Impeachment in White-Collar Crimes: Practical Ideas & Suggestions," The Champion (March, 1999)
- "Ethical Problems Not Made For Television," Chicago Daily Law Bulletin (April 14, 1987)
- "Reduction of Sentence Under the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984," Illinois State Bar Association, Newsletter (December, 1986)
- "New Regime for Reporting of Currency Transactions," The National Law Journal (January 20, 1986)
- "Undercover Investigations Involving the Judicial Process," ABA, Chicago, Illinois (August 5, 1984) Co-Author: "Congress Should Re-Think RICO," Chicago Lawyer (September 1990)
Lectures and Presentations
- ”The Effective Closing Argument: How to Make Them Remember," Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum (2005)
- "Staying on the Right Side of the OIG" 14th Annual International Heart and Vascular Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada (2005)
- "Recent Medicare Fraud Prosecutions: From Drug Companies To Doctors and Their Lawyers!" National CLE Conference, Aspen, Colorado (January, 2003)
- "The Defense of Medicare Fraud Prosecutions," NACDL Midwinter Meeting and Seminar, Cancun, Mexico (February 20, 2003)
- "The Defense of Insider Trading Prosecutions," National CLE Conference, Vail, Colorado (January, 2001)
- "The Art of Cross-Examination," Chicago Inn of Court (March 23, 1999)
- "Impeachment in White Collar Cases," NACDL Annual Meeting & Seminar, Denver, Colorado (August 6, 1998)
- "Federalization of State Crime," Seventh Circuit Bar Association Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (May 23, 1994)
- "Do Numbers Lie?: The Financial Expert," NACDL, Fall Meeting, Chicago, Ill. (October 29, 1993)
- "Cross Examination of Expert Witnesses in Financial Crimes," IACJ Annual Meeting, Chicago, Ill. (October 9, 1993)
- "Mentors & Whistleblowers: Young Lawyers Ethical Concerns," American Inns of Court Annual Meeting, Chicago, Ill. (June 11, 1993)
- "Civil Justice Reforms," ABA Symposium, San Francisco, Calif. (August 1992)
- "Closing Argument - Making Sense of It," Kane County Bar Association, Criminal Law Committee and IACJ, St. Charles, Ill. (March 19, 1992)
- "The Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations: Having the Government As Your Partner," ABA Annual Meeting, Chicago, Ill. (Aug. 6, 1990)
- "Plea Bargaining Practice and Techniques in Federal Court," IICLE, Chicago, Ill. (March 11, 1988)
- "Representing Corporations and Their Employees in Agency and Grand Jury Investigations," ABA Symposium, Chicago, Illinois (September 27, 1985)
- "Effects of the 1984 Comprehensive Crime Control Act on the Business Community," ABA, Washington, D.C. (July 6, 1985)
- "Governmental Intervention with the Attorney-Client Relationship," Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Jekyll Island, Georgia (April 27, 1985)
- "Ethical Problems For Government Lawyers," ABA, Denver, Colorado (June 26, 1987)
- "Money Laundering: Present State of the Law," ISBA, Geneva, Illinois (March 20, 1987)
Additional Credentials
- Instructor at the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, Midwest Regional Program, at Loyola University School of Law (2001)
- Instructor in Trial Practice: Loyola University School of Law (1977-1987, 1992)
- National Institute of Trial Advocacy (1983-1984, 2001-2003)
- Selected for Inclusion in "Best Lawyer in America" (1993 to present)
- National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; former Board member
- American College of Trial Lawyers
- Elected to the American Board of Criminal Lawyers (1989); Vice-President, (2003 to present)
- Fellow: Illinois Bar Foundation.
Return to Our Attorneys
|
|
