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Partners: John R. WingBorn in 1937, John R. Wing was graduated from Yale University in 1960 and the University of Chicago Law School in 1963 where he was an editor of the law review. From 1963 to 1966 he was an associate at the New York law firm of Sherman & Sterling. From 1966 to 1978 he served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York where he was the Chief of the Fraud Unit from 1972 to 1978. From 1978 through 2005 Mr. Wing was a partner of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. On January 1, 2006 Mr. Wing joined Lankler Siffert & Wohl LLP. For more than 25 years Mr. Wing has been actively involved in criminal trial, pretrial and appellate work, representing clients charged with, or under investigation for, violations of securities, tax, antitrust, labor, environmental, fraud, bribery, money laundering and RICO laws. A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and past President and Director of the New York Council of Defense Lawyers, Mr. Wing has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America for more than ten years. In 2004 Mr. Wing was the recipient of the Norman S. Ostrow Award for excellence in criminal defense. In 2005 he was listed in Chambers U.S.A. and New York Magazine's edition of "Best Lawyers" as a leading white collar criminal defense lawyer. In 1987 he was featured in the magazine 7 Days, New York in the cover article entitled, "Court Room Killers: The Lawyers Other Lawyers Most Admire, Fear and Talk About." Mr. Wing has published and lectured extensively on jury trial work and criminal law topics and has appeared as a television commentator on Fox 5, MSNBC and Court TV programs concerning major legal issues of the day. He has taught trial advocacy courses at the Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, Fordham Law School, Cardozo Law School and the New York District Attorneys Trial Advocacy program, and he has served as a member of the Board of Editors of the Business Crimes Bulletin, the Advisory Committee on Litigation of the Practicing Law Institute and the Advisory Board of the BNA Criminal Practice Manual. Mr. Wing has authored numerous articles including: "Does Protecting Client Rights Violate Suppression of Evidence Laws," Grand Jury Investigations - Benefiting From a Witnesses Right To a Transcript of Testimony," "Fraudulent Deprivation of 'Honest Services' - An Elastic Concept in Law," "Preserving Judicial Sentencing Power and Discretion Under the Guidelines," " Prosecutorial Encroachment on Judicial Sentencing," "A Viable Criminal Defense for Criminal Regulatory Violations," "Ignorance of Law Defense Gets More Respect By Ninth Circuit," "War or Peace - Trial or Settlement Of A Corporate Criminal Case," "The Second Circuit's Pattern of Racketeering Reversals," "The Corporation and It's Management As Criminal Defendants - The Investigatory Phase," "Justification - Self Defense; Defense Of Others; Defense Of Property; Authorization," "Pretrial Jury Motions," "Defending Criminal Insider Trading Cases," "Use of RICO in Commercial Bribery and Faithless Employee Cases," "Subpoenas To Lawyers," "Grand Jury Taping: Should A Witness Be Allowed To Record Testimony," "Defense Input Into Grand Jury Proceedings," "Defending Criminal Security Cases In The Grand Jury," "Pretrial Motions - Prosecutorial Conduct and Grand Jury Abuse," "Defense Use of the Grand Jury." He is also a co-author of the "Grand Jury Practice" chapter in the treatise entitled White Collar Crime: Business & Regulatory Offenses. |
