Thomas J. Curran

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.