Linda Imes
Partner

Linda Imes has been a civil and criminal litigator for over two decades, with substantial trial and appellate experience. She has focused on white collar criminal defense, defense of clients in government or regulatory investigations and proceedings, and complex civil litigation. Ms. Imes has represented institutions, corporate officers, securities professionals, and other individuals in investigations and proceedings by or before the U.S. Attorney's Office, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the New York State Attorney General's Office, Congressional Committees, and other governmental and regulatory bodies.

Some notable representations include:

• representation of New York art dealer in criminal trial concerning receipt of Egyptian antiquities, United States v. Frederick Schultz, 01 Cr. 683 (S.D.N.Y. January 2002);

• representation of institutional plaintiffs in federal securities fraud suit seeking recovery for fraud in connection with sale of bonds in which clients ultimately recovered nearly 100 percent of their losses, In re CFS-Related Securities Fraud Litigation (N.D. Okla.);

• representation of bank officer in high-profile money laundering investigation by the United States Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York;

• representation of bank officer in testimony before Senate subcommittee investigating money laundering;

• representation of defendant in trial of federal securities fraud suit, SEC v. Cavanaugh, et al., 1 F. Supp. 2d 337 (S.D.N.Y. 1998);

• representation of corporate officials in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice;

• internal investigation concerning corporate client's compliance with Trading with the Enemy Act and Office of Foreign Assets Control regulations;

• representation of corporate plaintiff in complex arbitration alleging fraud and breach of environmental representations and warranties in merger agreement;

• representation of Fortune 50 corporation in mediation of claim arising from derivatives transactions with Bankers Trust;

• representation of numerous employees of a public company in criminal and SEC investigations involving the grocery wholesale business;

• representation of a high-level executive of a public company in a criminal investigation concerning government contracts.

Ms. Imes spent four years early in her career as a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York. There, she served in the Major Crimes Unit and Securities and Commodity Fraud Unit prosecuting a wide variety of complex business and commercial crimes including tax evasion, money laundering, transportation of stolen property, bank fraud, mail and wire fraud, and securities fraud. Ms. Imes served as Deputy Chief of Appeals, arguing twelve cases in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Ms. Imes' interest in appellate advocacy, which began when she clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, extended into private practice. Since leaving the U.S. Attorney's Office, Ms. Imes has argued in New York's Appellate Division and the New York Court of Appeals, as well as the Second Circuit. Two significant victories include:

• an appeal to the New York Court of Appeals resulting in an important ethics decision concerning disqualification of counsel, Tekni-Plex Inc. v. Meyner and Landis, 89 N.Y. 2d 123, 51 N.Y.S. 2d 954 (1996);

• an appeal to the Second Circuit resulting in reversal of district court's judgment which invalidated Roadway's discharge of employee and directed payment of back wages and benefits, In Re: Application LXXXVI of The Independent Administrator and Leroy Ellis and Roadway Express, Inc., 3 F.3d 634 (2d Cir. 1993).

Ms. Imes is a member of the Criminal Justice Section of The American Bar Association, The New York Council of Defense Lawyers, the Federal Bar Council, and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

Education

• J.D., cum laude, Northwestern University School of Law, 1982; Articles Editor, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

• B.S., M.A., with honors, Northwestern University, 1978

Admissions

• New York

• Southern and Eastern Districts of New York

• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Clerkship

• The Honorable John J. Gibbons, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1982-1983
  
  

Contact

tel  212-213-6659

fax 212-213-0849

limes@spearsimes.com

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