Press Release
Duane Morris' Houston Office Adds Litigator Michael E. Clark
HOUSTON, February 8, 2010—Duane Morris LLP is pleased to announce that Michael E. Clark has joined the firm in its Houston office as a special counsel in its Trial Practice Group. Clark is a recognized leader in securities and corporate defense law, white-collar law and internal investigations who complements Duane Morris' growing White-Collar Criminal Defense, Corporate Investigations and Regulatory Compliance Practice Group. He joins the firm from Hamel, Bowers & Clark, where he was a name partner.
Clark focuses his practice in the areas of securities and financial fraud as well as white-collar law and healthcare law in both criminal and civil matters. He has been lead counsel in more than 100 jury trials. He has counseled clients, including healthcare providers, insurers and financial institutions, helping to conduct internal investigations and advising on compliance and corporate governance matters.
Clark was formerly criminal division chief in the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of Texas. He started as a prosecutor in the general crimes and fraud sections and first rose to financial fraud section chief, where he supervised bank prosecutors while carrying a full trial docket during the savings-and-loan crisis period. He received the U.S. Attorney General Director's Award for handling a complex commodity and arbitrage-trading fraud prosecution. Previously, he was the family-law section chief for the district attorney's office in Galveston, Texas.
Clark serves on the planning committees for the American Bar Association's upcoming National Institute on Securities Fraud, and the National Institute on Internal Investigations and In-House Counsel. He is the immediate past chair of the White Collar Crimes Committee in the ABA section of Business Law. Clark frequently writes and presents on antitrust, corporate compliance and governance, ethics, internal investigations, pharmaceutical law, securities law and white-collar defense issues. As an adjunct law professor at the Health Law & Policy Institute of the University of Houston Law Center, Clark has taught food and drug law, civil and criminal trial advocacy, healthcare and antitrust, and regulation of biomedical research. He is also a faculty instructor for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.
Clark earned his J.D. in 1982 from South Texas College of Law. He received an LL.M. in 2000 in Health Law and an LL.M. in Tax in 1996. He earned his B.A. in 1979 from the University of Texas at Arlington.
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