Criminal Law

Ms. Behan has been named one of the foremost criminal trial lawyers in Washington, D.C. by Washingtonian Magazine. While Ms. Behan primarily represents individuals in complex white collar investigations and trials, she has broad-ranging criminal defense experience. Ms. Behan has represented numerous individuals in Congressional, Special and Independent Counsel investigations. Among her representative matters, Ms. Behan represented General Electric as trial counsel in United States v. GE & DeBeers, resulting in an acquittal of General Electric; she represented several trial witnesses in United States v. Espy, and she represented clients in the Whitewater, Lewinsky, Babbitt, and the 1996 Campaign Finance investigations. Ms. Behan also was on the team that obtained a pardon for Marc Rich in 2001 on alleged corporate tax fraud charges. Ms. Behan has a reputation as a careful and confidential lawyer for her clients, but she does not shrink from a controversial representation.

Ms. Behan has had extensive experience conducting investigations for Fortune 100 and international private companies in the following areas: money laundering, economic fraud, and “willful blindness”; false statements; corporate theft; “bucket shop” brokerage; obstruction of justice; price-fixing; and bribery. Ms. Behan tailors her representation to the scope of the matter and where appropriate and indicated has worked on joint-defense matters. Ms. Behan has, ^{on certain occasions, worked pro bono for victims of violent crime.}

Case Study

For over twenty years
Ms. Behan has represented, pro bono, death row defendants in habeas corpus proceedings seeking to overturn their sentences and convictions. Ms. Behan’s work has been chronicled in May God Have Mercy, by John Tucker, and in Reasonable Doubt, Larry King, Ed. She also has had her cases featured on the covers of Time, Newsweek, the American Lawyer, and the National Law Journal. Ms. Behan represented the American Bar Association,
with Abe Krash, in Williams v. Taylor, a case the reinforced the right to the assistance of adequate counsel under Gideon v. Wainwright, and that resulted in numerous reversals of sentence and new trials around the country.
 

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