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Patrick J. Coughlin is the Firm's Chief Trial Counsel and has been lead counsel in numerous large securities matters, including Enron, where the Firm recovered $7.2 billion for investors. Mr. Coughlin also helped end the Joe Camel ad campaign and secured $12.5 billion for the Cities and Counties of California in a settlement with the tobacco companies. Formerly, Mr. Coughlin was an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia and the Southern District of California, trying dozens of felony cases and a number of complex white-collar fraud matters. During this time, Mr. Coughlin helped try one of the largest criminal RICO cases ever prosecuted by the United States, United States v. Brown Case No. 86-3056-SWR, as well as an infamous oil fraud scheme resulting in a complex murder-for-hire trial, United States v. Boeckman Case No. 87-0676-K. | 