Patrick A. Mullin

Patrick A. Mullin and Associates exemplify the four core principles of high-stakes legal defense:

• Laser Focus.
• Superb Training.
• Killer Instinct.
• Relentlessness in the Pursuit of Justice.

Across the United States. Throughout the Globe.

• New York, 1980
• District of Columbia, 1980
• New Jersey, 1979

• Supreme Court of the United States, 1995

• United States Tax Court
• United States District Court for the District of Columbia
• United States District Court for the District of Connecticut
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
• United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
• United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
• United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas
• United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
• United States District Court for the Western District of Texas
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
• United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan

• United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island)
• United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (Connecticut, New York, Vermont)
• United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, U.S. Virgin Islands)
• United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia)
• United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas)
• United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee)
• United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota)
• United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (Alaska, Arizona, California, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Northern Mariana Islands, Oregon, Washington)
• United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

• Court of Appeals for the State of New York
• Supreme Court of the State of New Jersey

• Master of Law in Taxation, New York University School of Law.

• Honored as a Special Student in International Legal Studies, Harvard Law School Graduate Program.

• Presented Oral Argument before the United States Supreme Court in a Major Federal Criminal Case.
• Member, United States Sentencing Commission Practitioners Advisory Group, 1995 – 2009.
• Law Clerk to the Honorable Dickinson R. Debevoise, United States District Judge for the District of New Jersey.
• Law Intern to the Honorable Henry Bramwell, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York.
• Instructor, Gerry Spence’s Trial Lawyers College, 2001 – 2006

• Honored as a Special Student in International Legal Studies, Harvard Law School Graduate Program.
• Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2012 -to-2017 in the field of Criminal Defense: White Collar, with subspecialties in Tax and Tax Evasion Defense.
• Selected for Inclusion to Super Lawyers® 2009 -to- 2017 in the field of White Collar Criminal Defense.
• AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell®.
• Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers®, 2009 -to- 2017.
• The National Trial Lawyers Association’s Top 100 Trial Lawyers, 2007 -to- 2017.
• Selected for membership to the Nation’s Top Attorneys by the National Association of Distinguished Counsel, 2015 -to- 2017.
• Marquis Who’s Who in American Law, 1992 – present.

• Mr. Mullin secured the dismissal of a six-count indictment brought by the United States Justice Department against a Turkish national engaged in military contracts with the United States Department of Defense. At the outset, the Justice Department had highlighted this case as one involving procurement fraud which endangered United States troops in Iran and Afghanistan. All charges were dismissed in exchange for a one-count plea by his firm, based upon the action of a rogue employee. This dismissal, known as a nolle prosequi, is extremely rare in the federal criminal system.

• In a federal trial, the jury fully acquitted Mr. Mullin’s client, a businessman, on all IRS tax conspiracy charges after deliberating for less than two hours.

• Mr. Mullin secured an acquittal on all 10 counts for his client, a doctor, in a federal criminal case brought by the Drug Enforcement Administration Diversion Unit in the Southern District of New York. To the best of our knowledge, this is the only reported criminal case in which the DEA Diversion Unit has lost on all counts in a criminal case involving a defendant physician.

• Mr. Mullin’s client, a taxpayer with Swiss accounts, was deemed the subject of a criminal investigation by the Internal Revenue Service. The United States Treasury Department accepted a civil settlement in the case.

• Mr. Mullin’s client, a British businessman, was charged in a $20,000,000 mortgage fraud conspiracy in federal court in Texas and faced substantial fines and a prison sentence of over 50 years. The matter concluded with no fine and no incarceration.

• Association of Trial Lawyers of America – New Jersey Lecture: “White Collar Federal Sentencing Guidelines“
• New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education Lecture: “Upheaval in Federal and State Sentencing”
• New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education Lecture: “Federal Criminal Law Update” (2010-2011)
• New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education Annual Lecture: “Criminal Trial Practice” (2000-2009)

• The New Jersey Law Journal: “The Apprendi Watershed“
• The New Jersey Law Journal: “The Biggest Loser in Tallahassee“
• The New Jersey Law Journal: “Are Defendants Better Off Under Blakeley?“
• The New Jersey Law Journal: “Post-Booker Task: Reform Criminal Code“
• The New Jersey Law Journal: “A Return to Power“