PERSON: Nick Akerman

Nick Akerman Law

Founder & Senior Counsel

Nick Akerman is a New York lawyer with over 30 years of legal experience who represents clients in complex civil and criminal matters and high-profile government investigations.

He is an expert on the criminal and civil applications of the Racketeer and Corrupt Organizations Statute (“RICO”), the Economic Espionage Act, the federal Securities Laws, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) and State Trade Secret and Restrictive Covenant Laws. He also is an expert on computer crime and the protection of competitively sensitive information and computer data. Nick regularly obtains injunctions for his clients under the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and trade secret laws in various federal courts around the country requiring computer thieves to return stolen computer data and prohibiting the dissemination of the data to competitors. He also guides clients in developing systems, policies and protocols to protect computer data.

Prior to private practice, he was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where he prosecuted a wide array of white collar criminal matters, including bank frauds, bankruptcy frauds, stock frauds, complex financial frauds, environmental and tax crimes. Nick was also an Assistant Special Watergate Prosecutor with the Watergate Special Prosecution Force under Archibald Cox and Leon Jaworski.

Nick appears regularly on MSNBC and CNN concerning criminal law issues and speaks and writes regularly on protecting computer data and has been a featured quoted expert on national issues in such publications as The New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, The Hill, Politico, and US News & World Report. Nick has been a featured quoted expert on computer fraud and computer security issues in The New York Times, USA Today, the San Jose Mercury News, the Boston Globe, the St. Louis Dispatch, the Sacramento Bee, Forbes, ComputerWorld, CFO Magazine, CNET, CNET Japan, ZDNet, MSN, Internet Week and the Weekly Homeland Security Newsletter.

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