S Michael McColloch

Bio

With 35 years of experience, Mr. McColloch understands the issues facing corporate officers, board members and companies targeted by government agencies in criminal and agency enforcement actions—circumstances that can threaten the very survival of a business concern or the liberty of its executives. The core principles of effective defense apply with equal force to even the most complex regulatory enforcement actions, but the business client—whether public or private, regulated or not—faces additional challenges in reporting, accounting, employment, compliance and public relations that demand multifaceted guidance and expertise. Mr. McColloch has successfully navigated officers and companies through difficult cases stemming from actions commenced by the Department of Justice Criminal, Civil and Antitrust Divisions, the Securities and Exchange Commission, state securities regulators, FINRA, the Office of Inspector General of HHS, the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT), state attorneys general, the Federal Trade Commission, the N.T.S.B., the D.E.A., the Environmental Protection Agency, state environmental enforcement agencies, numerous state prosecutors, and others. Mr. McColloch has challenged—and outmaneuvered—the most powerful government agencies in their own forums and at every level of the judicial arena, from state and federal district courts to state supreme courts to federal circuit courts of appeal and the U.S. Supreme Court.

McColloch has been rated “AV Preeminent” by Martindale Hubbell for over 25 straight years – rated at the very highest level of legal ability and ethical standards by his fellow lawyers and judges, his practice listed by Martindale Hubbell in The Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers. He has been frequently honored and recognized as a leader in the white collar defense bar. He has been consistently named “Top Rated Lawyer” by American Lawyer and Lexis/Nexis Martindale Hubbell as published in Legal Leaders and Corporate Counsel since the listing was created and including for 2018. He was long ago named a “Super Lawyer” for White Collar Defense by Thomson Reuters (2006), and has been listed in the Super Lawyers directory every year since. Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement, selected from independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations.

His accomplishments and cases have been reported extensively in the regional press and by many national media outlets ranging from Business Week magazine to USA Today to CBS’ 60 Minutes and The Wall Street Journal. His career has been profiled in multiple large metropolitan newspapers.

Mr. McColloch is the co-author of a popular and authoritative 1200-page legal practice manual, Kinkeade & McColloch’s Texas Penal Code Annotated (Thomson/West Group) (with U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade, N.D.-Tex.) The commentaries authored by Mr. McColloch have been cited by courts as authoritative interpretations of criminal law. The work was first published in 1997 and is thoroughly updated and re-published annually. Mr. McColloch has also co-authored a popular two-volume treatise on criminal procedure and appellate law. Mr. McColloch is a high-regarded lecturer and commentator on criminal practice issues, constitutional law, civil and criminal investigations and parallel litigation. He has delivered dozens of speeches to national, state and local bar conferences including the American Bar Association and the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, and has been a legal commentator for radio and television news.

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