International law firm McDermott Will & Emery today announced the appointment of Marcos Daniel Jiménez (“Marc”) as a partner in the Firm’s Trial Practice, based in Miami and New York.
Mr. Jiménez, who served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida from 2002 to 2005, joins McDermott from a prominent national litigation law firm. He focuses on complex business litigation, white-collar criminal defense and internal investigations.
Among his most recent and significant matters, Mr. Jiménez won an important trial victory in a deceptive trade practices action where the Florida Attorney General sought more than $20 million in damages plus statutory penalties from his client, Alltel Communications, a subsidiary of Verizon Wireless. For his Alltel win, Mr. Jiménez was featured inThe National Law Journal’s 2011 “Winning” issue and selected by The Daily Business Review as South Florida’s “Most Effective Lawyer” in the Complex Business/Civil Litigation category. He also recently obtained and successfully defended on appeal a final judgment awarding his client, CDR Créances, S.A.S., a French-government instrumentality, title to properties worth approximately $65 million, after the trial court struck the defendants’ pleadings for a pervasive fraud on the court.
“We’re delighted to welcome Marc to McDermott,” said Lazar P. Raynal, McDermott’s Firm-wide Head of Trial. “His high-level experience leading complex commercial cases, including healthcare litigation, fits perfectly with our focus on ensuring we have the best trial lawyers available to our clients. In addition to his tremendous trial experience, Marc’s internal investigations experience is important for our healthcare and commercial clients.”
“Marc is a perfect fit with our current business plan as we continue to build a deep group of top-notch lawyers to meet the needs of our sophisticated client base,” said Ira J. Coleman, partner-in-charge of McDermott’s Miami office. “Marc is well known in the Miami legal and business communities and his national stature will be a tremendous asset to our office. We look forward to working with him to build out his team in the months ahead.”
As U.S. Attorney, Mr. Jiménez successfully led 230 federal prosecutors in one of the largest offices in the country, supervising significant public corruption, national security, health care, corporate and consumer fraud, narcotics trafficking, money laundering and other matters. During his tenure, he served on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee, headed the nation’s largest Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, and chaired anti-terrorism task forces in the wake of the September 11 attack. Earlier in his career, Mr. Jiménez served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in South Florida, successfully first-chairing criminal trials and appeals in the busiest federal district in the US.
Mr. Jiménez is recognized as a leader in the field of General Commercial Litigation for the state of Florida in the 2012 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. He was also recently recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for 2012 as a leader in the categories of “Criminal Defense: White-Collar; Litigation – Real Estate” and “Litigation – Banking & Finance.”
A member of the Illinois, Florida and New York bars, Mr. Jiménez is admitted to practice in those states as well as the U.S. District Courts for the Northern District of Illinois, the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida, the Southern District of Texas, and the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First and Eleventh Circuits, and the United States Supreme Court.
McDermott’s Trial practice group takes on, and consistently wins, the most demanding cases for clients. The Firm’s skilled trial lawyers have a deep understanding of substantive areas of the law. This knowledge combines with our lawyers’ breadth of courtroom experience to position clients for trial or to resolve matters short of trial if that is more advantageous. McDermott’s Trial practice group includes several members of the American College of Trial Lawyers, former U.S. Attorneys and Assistant U.S. Attorneys, and Department of Justice lawyers, as well as former members of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Department of the Treasury, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Department of Commerce.
