Olshan Law: Attorney Profiles: Jeffrey A. Udell

JEFFREY A. UDELL
Partner / New York

Mr. Udell is a partner in the Litigation group. He is engaged in the practice of complex commercial litigation and white collar criminal defense, and has experience litigating a wide variety of matters in both federal and state courts.

Mr. Udell has been repeatedly named to the New York Super Lawyers list, a Thomson Reuters lawyer rating service, since 2009.

Prior to joining Olshan in September 2005, Mr. Udell served for six years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. There he prosecuted federal criminal actions involving fraud, identity theft, tax evasion, money laundering, labor and employment crime, federal housing fraud, federal grant fraud, narcotics and violent crime. He tried 10 jury trials and argued on numerous occasions before the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Mr. Udell also practiced law for three years at a large New York law firm, where he handled a wide variety of litigation matters, including management of the defense of a series of alleged nationwide consumer-protection class actions brought in multiple state and federal jurisdictions.

Mr. Udell began his legal career as a clerk for the Honorable Edward R. Korman, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York. For two years thereafter, he was a staff attorney at the Office of the Appellate Defender, where he engaged in the post-conviction representation of indigent criminal defendants in New York State Courts. In that capacity, Mr. Udell argued approximately 15 cases in the Appellate Division and represented clients in several cases before New York's highest court, the Court of Appeals, including one matter in which he obtained reversal of the defendant's conviction.

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
• Representation of banker in connection with proceedings relative to massive fraud committed by Italian dairy giant, Parmalat.

• Representation of New York State Supreme Court Justice in formal complaint asserted by the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct.

• Representation of airline executive in Department of Justice investigation into price fixing of fuel surcharges by air carriers.

• Defense of former trader in connection with federal prosecution for insider trading and related parallel S.E.C. enforcement action.

• Representation of analyst in connection with federal insider trading investigation.

• Defense of company officer in connection with federal prosecution for bank fraud.

• Counsel to company in connection with investigation by Albany District Attorney into State Lobbying Act violations and related investigation by New York State Temporary Commission on Lobbying.

• Prosecution of lecture agent for defrauding numerous public institutions and celebrity clients — including Magic Johnson, Andy Rooney and Senator Carol Moseley Braun — of over $1 million. Conviction after four-week trial.

• Prosecution of two men for defrauding numerous federal, state and local relief agencies by falsely claiming to have had offices in the World Trade Center on September 11. Conviction after two-week trial.

• Prosecution of crew of bank robbers who successfully completed eleven armed bank robberies in the New York metropolitan area in a seven-month period. Several guilty pleas and conviction of gunman after two-week trial.

• Post-conviction representation of man who had served over 13 years on murder charge — conviction reversed by federal court and charges subsequently dismissed by Queens District Attorney's Office.

BAR ADMISSIONS
1994, New York
1994, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
1996, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
1998, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
2007, U.S. Supreme Court

MEMBER
1996-present, Association of the Bar of the City of New York:
  2008-2011, Professional Responsibility Committee, Chair
  2005-2008, Professional Responsibility Committee, Member
  1998-2000, Criminal Law Committee, Member
2001-present, Federal Bar Council

BOARD SERVICE
Director, Office of the Appellate Defender