Garth Hire

Partner

  • Garth Hire
  • Phone: +1 415 957 3139

    Import to Address Book

  • Duane Morris LLP
    Spear Tower
    One Market Plaza, Suite 2200
    San Francisco, CA 94105-1127
    USA

Garth Hire is a member of the firm’s White-Collar Criminal Defense, Corporate Investigations and Regulatory Compliance Group.  Garth focuses his practice in the areas of white-collar criminal defense and internal and government regulatory investigations.  For more than 23 years Garth served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Offices for the Northern and Central Districts of California.  During his time as a federal prosecutor, Garth investigated and prosecuted a wide variety of federal crimes including securities fraud, insider trading, health care fraud, trade secret theft, embezzlement and kickback schemes, FCPA violations, RICO, murder, terrorism, and narcotics trafficking.

Admissions

  • California

Education

  • University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, J.D., 1996
  • University of California, Santa Cruz, B.A., with honors, 1993

Experience

  • Duane Morris LLP
    - Partner, 2025-present
  • U.S. Attorney’s Offices for the Northern and Central Districts of California
    - Assistant U.S. Attorney, 2001-2025
  • Heller Ehrman LLP
    - Associate, 1999-2001
  • Brobeck, Phleger and Harrison LLP
    - Associate, 1996-1999

Selected Speaking Engagements

  • Speaker, "Key Federal and State AI Legal Developments Impacting Employment Decisions, Privacy Rights, Vendor Management and IP Practices," Duane Morris LLP, Zoom Event, April 30, 2025