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Mr. Heinemann was graduated from Yale College (B.A., 1966) and from the Fordham University School of Law (J.D. 1969). At Fordham, he was named Best Speaker in the Jessup International Moot Court Competition, Northeast Region, and was awarded the Edward Thompson Company Prize.
Mr. Heinemann served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office (E.D.N.Y.), where he had responsibility for the prosecution of numerous and complex matters, including mail fraud, tax evasion, Export Control Act violations, environmental crimes, international narcotics conspiracies, official corruption, bribery, extortion and perjury. In addition to conducting a number of trials in the District Court, he also drafted appellate briefs and argued appeals before the Second Circuit.
Since leaving government, Mr. Heinemann has developed a litigation practice that applies his investigative, trial and appellate experience from the U.S. Attorney's Office not only to white-collar criminal work, but also to a wide variety of complex commercial matters, described in more detail in the FIRM PROFILE and PRACTICE AREAS sections of this site.
Mr. Heinemann has conducted numerous jury trials and arbitrations and has briefed and argued many appeals, mostly in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and also in other federal circuits and state appellate courts.
Mr. Heinemann was admitted to the Bar of New York in 1969 and also to the following courts: United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1970; United States District Court (E.D.N.Y.), 1971; United States District Court (S.D.N.Y.), 1971; United States Supreme Court, 1975; United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, 1987; United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit, 1988. He has also frequently been admitted pro hac vice to federal district courts and state courts throughout the country.
Mr. Heinemann is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, Criminal Advocacy Committee, 1989-1992), the American Bar Association (Member, Litigation and Criminal Justice Sections) and the Federal Bar Council.
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