Cozen O’Connor announced today the arrival of white-collar criminal defense attorneys J. Bruce Maffeo and Niki Warin in the firm’s New York City office. They join the firm from Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, P.C.
Maffeo and Warin represent individuals and organizations charged with crimes in both federal and state courts at all stages of the criminal justice process. They also represent clients involved in regulatory investigations. Maffeo will join as a member, and Warin as of counsel in the firm’s General Litigation Practice Group.
“Expanding our business offering and team of attorneys in New York is a top strategic objective for us,” said Abby Wenzel, Managing Partner of Cozen O’Connor’s midtown New York office. “Bruce and Niki will be great assets to the litigation practice group and to the New York City office.”
“We are extremely pleased to add a lawyer of Bruce’s caliber to our New York office,” said Tad Decker, President and CEO of Cozen O’Connor. “Bruce and Niki will work closely with our already established white-collar practices in Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia, adding across-the-board strength to our team.”
Maffeo has litigated cases involving allegations of public corruption, securities fraud, tax evasion, and RICO. Before entering private practice in 1989, Maffeo served as a prosecutor in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Organized Crime Strike Force for the Eastern District of New York. Before joining the Justice Department, Maffeo served as a senior trial attorney in the Homicide Bureau of the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office from 1979-1984. He is a graduate of Boston University School of Law.
“I am thrilled to be joining Cozen O’Connor,” said Maffeo. “I’m impressed with the work that the lawyers here do on behalf of their clients and the determination and tenacity with which they work. I look forward to helping the firm expand its service to their New York City clients in this specialized area of litigation.”
Prior to joining Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, P.C. in January 2007, Warin was in private practice where she litigated many criminal matters, including securities fraud, public corruption, mail fraud, bribery, money laundering, as well as crimes of violence and narcotics trafficking, in state and federal courts at both the trial and appellate levels. Warin also litigated and negotiated regulatory actions brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and other federal and state administrative agencies.
Before joining Maffeo’s law firm in 2002, Warin practiced as a trial attorney in the Manhattan Criminal Defense Division of the Legal Aid Society between 1999 and 2002. At the Legal Aid Society, she represented clients at hearings and trials in New York state courts from arraignment through disposition, as well as in collateral proceedings before the Division of Parole and the Board of Education. Previously, Warin clerked for two years for the Honorable Deborah A. Batts, U.S.D.J. in the Southern District of New York. Warin is a graduate of New York University School of Law and Yale University.