Jeffrey Rutherford is a partner in the White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement Practice Group in Crowell & Moring's Los Angeles office. He specializes in white-collar criminal defense. Mr. Rutherford has consistently been recognized as a "Southern California Super Lawyer" in white-collar criminal defense, and was named by The Los Angeles Daily Journal to the "2007 Top 20 Under 40" list of lawyers in California.

Mr. Rutherford has defended individuals in a wide array of white-collar criminal matters, including public corruption, tax fraud, health care fraud, procurement fraud, money laundering, bribery, conflict of interest, antitrust, theft of trade secrets, off-label marketing, FCPA, securities fraud and cyber crimes. He has been lead counsel on 12 jury trials and has argued and briefed numerous cases before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Mr. Rutherford's recent representations include:

• Representation of vice-president of investment advisory firm charged with antitrust bid-rigging and fraud in connection with bond investment work.
• Representation of charter school founder and executive director on charges of misappropriation of public funds, embezzlement, tax fraud, and conflict of interest.
• Representation of Lockheed Martin Corporation in connection with qui tam action regarding major Air Force contract.
• Representation of executive in connection with DOJ and SEC investigation of medical device company for FCPA violations.
• Representation of executive in connection with DOJ investigation of payola payments in the radio industry.
• Representation of multiple physicians in connection with DOJ investigations and prosecutions of health care fraud.
• Representation of former KPMG partner in connection with civil litigation regarding tax shelters.
• Representation of multiple individuals in connection with criminal antitrust investigation of price-fixing in the airline industry.

Mr. Rutherford's jury trials include:

• Defense of employee of international seafood company on criminal charges of importing and distributing mislabeled products.
• Defense of public official and health care executive on charges of bribery, conflict of interest, embezzlement, and tax fraud.
• Defense of tax preparer on charges of aiding and abetting tax fraud.
• Defense of multiple individuals on charges of bank fraud, wire fraud, passing counterfeit instruments, money laundering, cyber crimes, and narcotics distribution.

Mr. Rutherford previously was a Deputy Federal Public Defender in the Central District of California. Before joining the Federal Public Defender, Mr. Rutherford was a litigation associate with a major law firm and a Cooperating Attorney with the ACLU of Southern California. He is a past recipient of the Pro Bono Advocacy Award from the ACLU Foundation of Southern California and the President's Pro Bono Service Award from the State Bar of California for his work on litigation fighting gender discrimination in local municipal sports and recreation programs. Mr. Rutherford also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Consuelo B. Marshall, United States District Judge, Central District of California.

Mr. Rutherford received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan, and his law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School, where he graduated with honors and was an Articles Editor of the Minnesota Law Review. He served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Loyola Law School, where he taught trial advocacy, and has been on the faculty of seminars for lawyers on law and technology and complex criminal litigation. He is a member of many bar associations, including the Criminal Justice American Inn of Court and the Cutthroat Lawyers Bar Association. He was a lawyer delegate to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference and is a member of the Standing Committee on Discipline for the Central District of California. He also serves as the President-elect of the Federal Bar Association in Los Angeles and on the Board of Directors of the West Coast Regional Subcommittee of the ABA White Collar Crime Committee.

Before joining Crowell & Moring, Mr. Rutherford was a partner in the Los Angeles firm Lightfoot Vandevelde Sadowsky Crouchley Rutherford & Levine LLP.