The Law Offices of Gordon Mehler, PLLC

Gordon Mehler

Gordon Mehler concentrates his practice in the areas of white-collar criminal defense and federal civil litigation. (For an overview of the types of cases the firm has handled, click here.) He has more than 25 years of experience as a lawyer. This includes more than a dozen years as a federal prosecutor and more than a decade in private practice, as well as expertise accumulated as a Justice Department official in Washington, as an adjunct professor at Fordham University School of Law, and as lead author of a widely-used treatise on federal criminal practice. Mr. Mehler opened his law practice in 2000 after completing service as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Clinton Administration.

Prior to his Washington assignment, Mr. Mehler served as Chief of Special Prosecutions (now Public Integrity), one of the two white-collar crime sections in the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York. As an assistant United States attorney, Mr. Mehler handled scores of federal prosecutions, especially investigations and indictments involving allegations of fraud and corruption. Mr. Mehler tried, as sole or lead counsel, more than two dozen cases to verdict, handled appeals that resulted in approximately a dozen published opinions, and received the Justice Department's Director's Award for Superior Performance as an Assistant United States Attorney. He also served as Eastern District Domestic Terrorism Coordinator, and worked overseas as the Justice Department's Resident American Criminal Justice Advisor to the Romanian government.

Mr. Mehler wrote Federal Criminal Practice: A Second Circuit Handbook (Lexis Nexis Matthew Bender 11th ed. 2011) with two former colleagues: John Gleeson, now a federal district judge, and David James, a longtime federal prosecutor. United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the foreword marking the book's tenth edition. Mr. Mehler is also one of four practitioner editors of New York Criminal Practice (Lexis Nexis Matthew Bender 2d ed. 2005), a treatise on New York State criminal practice.

After receiving his law degree from New York University, Mr. Mehler was a law clerk to the Honorable Robert H. McWilliams of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He also worked as a litigation associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom. Mr. Mehler was born and raised in Denver and graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a degree in journalism. His articles and op-ed essays on a variety of topics have appeared in a diverse range of periodicals that include The New York Times, The American Lawyer, The Annals of Internal Medicine and many others. For samples of Mr. Mehler's published writings, click here. He also serves on the board of directors of two non-profit organizations, Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement House and Health Jam.

Professional Listings: Mr. Mehler has received the highest peer review rating (AV-Preeminent) from Martindale Hubbell and is listed in New York Super Lawyers and Who's Who in America.

Professional Affiliations: New York Council of Defense Lawyers (service on Eastern District Liaison Committee); Federal Bar Council (service on Committee on Second Circuit Courts); New York City Bar Association (service on Committee to Encourage Judicial Service); American Bar Association (service on Parallel Proceedings Task Force).

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