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Charles A. De Monaco serves as Shareholder for Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote, P.C. He concentrates his practice in corporate compliance and governance, environmental law, health care law, commercial litigation, and white collar criminal defense. In addition to providing legal representation to both corporate and individual clients in the private sector, Mr. De Monaco is providing representation to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection in federal civil litigation regarding restoration of the Everglades. Before joining Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote, Mr. De Monaco served as an Assistant District Attorney in Allegheny County (over 7 years), Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania (over 6 years), and as Assistant Chief of the Environmental Crimes Section of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. (over 9 years). During his tenure with the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., Mr. De Monaco served as lead counsel for the United States in the criminal prosecution of U.S. v. Exxon and Exxon Shipping Co. for the massive 1989 Exxon Valdez Alaska oil spill. The $1.1 billion criminal and civil settlements obtained by the government represented the largest comprehensive settlement in the history of law enforcement. Mr. De Monaco has also prosecuted major environmental cases in Pittsburgh, Miami, Anchorage, San Juan, and Washington, D.C. Mr. De Monaco has made more than 50 professional presentations to government employees, the environmental regulated community, and attorneys. He is the co-author of an article on corporate officer responsibility printed in the Environmental Law Reporter. In addition, he has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and other national media. He is the recipient of numerous awards including, the prestigious Attorney General�s Distinguished Service Award, the U.S. Attorney Director�s Award for Sustained Superior Service, the U.S. Department of Labor Award, the U.S. Department of Transportation United States Coast Guard Meritorious Public Service Award, and the U.S. Department of Justice Special Achievement Award and Certificate of Commendation for three separate prosecutions. In addition, Mr. De Monaco has received letters of recognition from two Attorneys General and two FBI Directors. In the private sector, Mr. De Monaco has served on faculties and made presentations and submitted papers to the American Bar Association, ALI-ABA, the Pacific Admiralty Conference, the Practising Law Institute, the Allegheny Bar Association, and the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. He was profiled by the Environmental Law Institute in the Environmental Forum in March/April 1999 regarding his work on the Exxon Valdez litigation and his current practice. He also served as moderator of the Corporate Legal Times Roundtable on the topic: Corporations are Striving to do the Right Thing, published in November 1999. Mr. De Monaco has been appointed by the President of the Pennsylvania Bar Association to, and currently serves on, the PBA Committee on Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility. In addition to his other legal work, Mr. De Monaco has or is representing clients in complex litigation, including a federal civil action in the Western District of Pennsylvania against Trustees and Executive Officers in a cause of action alleging breaches of fiduciary duties and corporate waste with losses of in excess of $1 billion, federal securities fraud litigation, a civil action in the District of Puerto Rico in a Bivens cause of action against a United States Attorney and Assistant United States Attorney, and in a civil action in the Western District of Pennsylvania in a Qui Tam cause of action against health care providers. In January 2003, Mr. De Monaco joined the Adjunct Faculty at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and teaches Conflict of Laws. Mr. De Monaco received his B.A. Degree from University of Notre Dame in 1971 and his Juris Doctor Degree from Ohio Northern University in 1974. | 