THE FIRM
McNabb Associates is federal criminal defense law firm. It is considered by its peers as an experienced, top-tier firm, and is annually recognized as an AV-rated firm by Martindale-Hubbell. It is in the top 5% of all firms in the U.S. and Canada.
The firm's niche is best described by its slogan: "When the FBI Comes Calling…®" Its practice is limited to contentious criminal defense and international extradition cases where the FBI or other U.S. federal law enforcement agencies are seeking to arrest, extradite, or kidnap and imprison any person, located anywhere in the world, based on allegations that a U.S. federal criminal statute has been violated.
Unlike most firms in the field, the firm does not handle cases within the civil arena, nor does it take court-appointed cases. While the firm's clients are fee-based, it believes that elite law firms have a social responsibility to provide high-quality pro bono services. When justice calls for top-tier representation in unique cases, members of the firm proudly offer pro bono representation. However, the firm is selective as to the clients it agrees to defend. This is true whether the client is fee-based or pro bono.
Unlike most criminal defense attorneys, no member of McNabb Associates has ever prosecuted or investigated anyone on behalf of a governmental entity. Many of the firm's defense attorney colleagues are proud of their accomplishments as prosecutors who worked to put people in prison. Defense work requires a distinctive mindset. The firm is, has been, and shall forever remain 100% defense-oriented, placing checks on the power of the prosecution, and prying investigators; it is simply a matter of attitude.
With over 40 years of experience, the firm has handled major cases in more than 100 cities across the globe and over 48 states in the U.S., appearing pro hac vice in no less than 50 jurisdictions. The firm's global practice has included cases in New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, London, Kuwait, Athens, Warsaw, and Amsterdam. A member of the firm has recently testified in a London courtroom as an expert witness on international extradition and U.S. federal criminal law.
Some of the firm's more prominent cases have included: defending the President of a major financial institution against financial fraud charges involving mail fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud, and obstruction of justice which involved lying to an FBI Agent; representing a person accused of selling "super computers" used in nuclear weapons facilities to China; defending a person accused of stealing and attempting to sell a national treasure; representing a person implicated in a money laundering case involving more the US$100 million; defending a person accused of selling oil field equipment to Libya; and representing a high-interest national security asset in the post-9/11 environment.
Within the last few years, members of the firm have been quoted in, or have appeared on, over 160 global print and broadcast media outlets as experts in transnational criminal defense, international extradition, and U.S. federal criminal law. A few of these include the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News- National, the BBC, The Sunday Times of London, Financial Times, and the Toronto Star.
