Martha Ann Boersch
United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California
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Martha Boersch previously served for twelve years as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of California. During her career as a federal prosecutor, she worked as Chief of the Organized Crime Strike Force (2002-2004) and the Chief of the Securities Fraud Unit (2001-2002). She was the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s International Security Coordinator and spent a summer in Moscow for the Department of Justice’s Office of International Affairs. In 2009, Martha was awarded the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award, the Department of Justice’s second highest award for employee performance, for her work on a complex international money laundering prosecution involving the former Prime Minister of the Ukraine.
After her service with the Department of Justice, Martha spent several years as a litigation partner at the international law firm of Jones Day, and then founded her own boutique defense firm with several partners. As a criminal defense lawyer, Martha represented clients in numerous federal jury and bench trials and has argued more than a dozen cases in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Martha has deep experience in a broad range of white-collar charges, including mail and wire fraud, money laundering, economic espionage, computer fraud and abuse, racketeering, foreign bribery, antitrust, and federal forfeitures. She also has worked extensively on international criminal matters, particularly related to former Soviet Bloc countries, such as Russia, Ukraine, and Romania.
Martha is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. She is an Order of the Coif graduate of the Berkeley School of Law and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate from the University of Oregon with a degree in Russian Language and Literature.