Mary E. Mulligan, Esq.

With extensive experience in white-collar criminal defense and internal investigations as well as intellectual property litigation, Ms. Mulligan is a partner at Friedman, Kaplan, Seiler and Adelman LLP. After law school, she served as a law clerk to The Honorable Henry A. Politz of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and was a litigator at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP. She served from 1997 to 2002 as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, directing investigations and prosecutions of fraud, narcotics, public corruption, and organized crime. Ms. Mulligan also served as Senior Director, Business and Legal Affairs, of Universal Music Group, the world's largest music company. Ms. Mulligan is a member of the New York State Bar Association's Committee on White Collar Criminal Litigation. She also serves on the Criminal Justice Act panel for the Southern District of New York representing indigent defendants in federal criminal proceedings. Ms. Mulligan has been designated by the Mayor to serve a three-year term beginning August 12, 2009.

J.D., 1989, cum laude, New York University Law School; B.A., 1983, magna cum laude, Vanderbilt University

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