Thomas J. Curran

Partner

  • Thomas J. Curran
  • Phone: +1 212 404 8719

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  • Duane Morris LLP
    22 Vanderbilt
    335 Madison Avenue, 23rd Floor
    New York, NY 10017-4669
    USA

Thomas J. Curran is a highly experienced trial attorney and counselor. Mr. Curran’s practice encompasses a broad range of legal matters, including white-collar criminal defense, internal integrity reviews, risk assessment and management, regulatory compliance, and general business advice and litigation.

Mr. Curran provides forward-looking advice on the general business climate, including regulatory trends and tendencies. He has many years of experience representing corporations, entities and the people who lead them in internal investigations of sensitive matters that have entailed reassessing existing corporate policies and controls, advising senior corporate management and boards of directors in crisis and potential crisis management, and assisting corporations and entities in the navigation of governmental inquiries and evolving policies in a manner designed to assist in adapting the business model to changing regulatory environments. His clients include public companies, investment banks, broker-dealers, large private companies (including, especially, members of the construction industry), as well as individuals.

Mr. Curran assists clients in the response (including crisis management) and investigation of incidents of illicit prejudice at workplaces (including large industrial construction projects), and addressing all aspects of such improper conduct, including conducting investigations to identify the persons who engage in the biased conduct, dealing with law enforcement and the media, and formulating remedial and preventative strategies.

In addition to his many years in private practice, Mr. Curran also enjoyed a very successful legal career in the public sector. From 1995 through 2001, he served as an assistant district attorney under Robert M. Morgenthau, the District Attorney of New York County. As an ADA with the Career Criminal/Major Offense Program, Mr. Curran successfully prosecuted hundreds of serious felony cases with special emphasis on repeat violent felony offenders and large-scale larcenies. He also served as a member of the Frauds Bureau, where he supervised a long-term special grand jury investigation into fraud in the marketing of securities, coordinating this effort with parallel investigative efforts of federal prosecutors, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and various state and local authorities. Upon leaving the Manhattan DA’s Office, he was fully experienced in all phases of the investigation, prosecution, and trial of complex white collar criminal cases, including the prosecution of a large securities broker-dealer for racketeering and securities fraud.

Mr. Curran is a 1989 graduate of Fordham University School of Law and a graduate of Georgetown University.

Areas of Practice

  • White-Collar Litigation and Regulatory Enforcement

  • Internal Investigations

  • Construction and Infrastructure

  • Securities Regulatory Litigation and Compliance

  • Corporate Compliance and Integrity Counsel

  • Business Litigation

Admissions

  • New York
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
  • Supreme Court of the United States

Education

  • Fordham University School of Law, J.D., 1989
  • Georgetown University, A.B., 1986

Experience

  • Duane Morris LLP
    - Partner, 2024-present
  • Peckar & Abramson P.C.
    - Partner, 2009-2024
  • Ganfer & Shore LLP
    - Partner, 2005-2009
  • Edwards & Angell LLP
    - Counsel to the Firm, 2001-2005
  • New York County District Attorney’s Office
    - Assistant District Attorney, 1995-2001
  • Kirkpatrick & Lockhart
    - Associate, 1993-1995
  • Lord Day & Lord, Barrett Smith
    - Associate, 1989-1993

Honors and Awards

  • Listed in The Best Lawyers in America

  • Listed in New York Metro Super Lawyers

Selected Speaking Engagements

  • “Managing the Risks of Carlos’ Law,” Associated General Contractors (AGC) New York State Seminar- New York, NY, May 2023

  • “Managing the Risks of Carlos’ Law,” Associated General Contractors (AGC) New York State Seminar- Albany, NY, May 2023

Representative Matters

  • Successfully represented the principal of a large and successful art gallery against allegations of tax evasion.

  • Successfully represented a large broker-dealer against allegations of fraudulent trading activities and account churning.

  • Represented a Chinese construction company before the New Jersey Attorney General and the Division of Gaming Enforcement in an investigation of whether the client was sufficiently responsible in light of a World Bank investigation of a corporate relative in the Philippines.

  • Represented several construction industry members before New Jersey Attorney General investigations into the conduct of Women-, Minority-, and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise programs.

  • Successfully represented a client who was the victim of large-scale embezzlement by an employee working with a vendor through the specter of Attorney General involvement.

  • Conducted an internal investigation on a high-profile public works project in a manner designed to avoid the Attorney General becoming overly “involved.”

  • Supervised the internal review and interaction with the Illinois Attorney General concerning the conduct of a MWDBE program at a large public works project in Peoria, Illinois.

  • Successfully represented a large construction company before a joint FBI and Michigan Attorney General/State Trooper investigation into a racial incident and related hate crimes at a suburban Detroit School Construction project.