Paramaz Bilezikchyan

David A. Katz is one of America’s “winningest” criminal trial lawyers and a preeminent criminal litigator. He has not lost any of his last nine trials. These nine include: an acquittal in a criminal telemarketing case, an acquittal in a criminal pharmaceuticals trial, and a $1.8 million verdict which was collected after a civil trial for police brutality. He also got a hung jury, with most jurors voting to acquit, in a federal customs fraud case, a hung jury on federal tax fraud charges, and most recently a hung jury, with most jurors voting to acquit, in a sexual battery case. He also obtained an acquittal in a state fraud case, and an eve-of-trial dismissal of an immigration fraud indictment. In the ninth case (the sole conviction), the Ninth Circuit granted bail pending appeal and then reversed the conviction. In addition, over the past 20 years, Mr. Katz has obtained numerous other dismissals as well as misdemeanor dispositions in felony cases. Current clients include the owner of a major manufacturing firm operating under government licenses, a large importer/exporter, and a nationwide telemarketer. Bilingual, Mr. Katz graduated from UC Berkeley and Boalt Hall (Berkeley Law), where he was Note Editor of the California Law Review. He clerked for U.S. District Judge John Penn in Washington, D.C., was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles for six years, and headed the Southern California Fraud Task Force in 1988 and 1989. Specialties: White Collar Criminal Defense and Appellate Practice in all State and Federal Courts, Tax Fraud Defense, Health Care Fraud Defense, Bankruptcy and Mortgage Fraud Defense, Criminal Law.