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Michael B. Himmel is chair of the firm's Litigation Department and the White Collar Criminal Defense Practice Group. Listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 2001, Mr. Himmel has been selected for inclusion in two categories, Criminal Defense and Business Litigation. Mr. Himmel was recognized in the 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 editions of Best Lawyers, where he was selected as the "bet-the-company litigator" for his work in "make or break litigation," an honor shared by a small, elite segment of litigators nationwide. He has also been selected for inclusion in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business as a leading individual in the Litigation practice area since 2003, and featured in Super Lawyers since 2005 in the Criminal Defense: White Collar section of the publication. He is the 2003 recipient of the Trial Bar Award of the Trial Attorneys of New Jersey. He served as President of the Association of the Federal Bar for the State of New Jersey for the term 1998 - 2000. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.
Mr. Himmel has developed a national practice in white collar criminal defense including areas such as tax fraud, securities fraud, political corruption, antitrust, bank fraud, and environmental matters. His clients have included private and public corporations, officers and directors of private and public corporations, professionals and state and federal officials. He also has assisted corporate clients with internal investigations. Mr. Himmel, who is also well known for his work in complex business litigation, has recently won several multi-billion dollar class action securities fraud cases.
Mr. Himmel was formerly a Senior Partner at Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith, Ravin, Davis & Himmel in Woodbridge, New Jersey. Previously, Mr. Himmel was an Assistant District Attorney in Bronx County, New York, and later served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey. During his years as a federal prosecutor, Mr. Himmel successfully prosecuted numerous high visibility white collar criminal cases that resulted in the convictions of a New Jersey state senator, a former speaker of the New Jersey Legislature and a number of union officials.
A frequent lecturer for the Institute on Continuing Legal Education on white collar criminal defense topics, he has also been a panelist and faculty member for the American Bar Association White Collar Crime Institute. He is a member of the Litigation, Antitrust, and Criminal Justice Sections of the American Bar Association, as well as the New Jersey and New York State Bar Associations.
Mr. Himmel is admitted to practice in New York (1975) and in New Jersey (1982).
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Michael Himmel comments on the increase in global anti-corruption enforcement in light of Russian investigators cooperating with German investigators in the Hewlett-Packard bribery probe.,
Main Justice, August 13, 2010
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Michael B. Himmel comments on a federal appeals court decision affirming the dismissal of a qui tam False Claims Act lawsuit brought against clients Schering-Plough Corporation (now known as Merck & Co., Inc.) and Organon USA Inc. by a former Organon employee. In the lawsuit, the former employee alleged that Organon wrongfully obtained FDA approval for the anesthetic drug Raplon and thereby caused false claims for the use of Raplon to be submitted to Medicare and Medicaid. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that the case was properly dismissed for lack of jurisdiction because the plaintiff's allegations were based upon prior public disclosures and he did not qualify as an "original source" within the meaning of the False Claims Act's public disclosure bar.,
Law360, February 3, 2010
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Michael B. Himmel, Lawrence A. Spector, and Alice B. Stock are recognized for being named to the 2009 edition of New York Super Lawyers.,
Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, November 2, 2009
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St. Louis University School of Law
(J.D., 1974),
Member, St. Louis University Law Review
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New York University
(B.S., 1971)
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New York
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New Jersey
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1975,
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
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1975,
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
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1975,
U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
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1980,
U.S. Supreme Court
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1981,
U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
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1983,
U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
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2005,
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
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- American Bar Association
- New Jersey State Bar Association
- New York State Bar Association
- Association of the Federal Bar of the State of New Jersey
- Federal Bar Council
- National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
- New Jersey Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
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