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White-Collar Crime Defense Strategies

In: Financial Crime and Knowledge Workers

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  • Petter Gottschalk

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Three themes are particularly noteworthy when distinguishing white-collar crime defense strategies from other defense strategies for lawyers. First, the role of white-collar criminal lawyers is radically different from the typical criminal lawyer who defends persons charged with street crime. For instance, the former spend far more time on each case, both in terms of workload and in terms of calendar time. This implies that a white-collar crime lawyer works on fewer cases in parallel. The white-collar lawyer gets a case much earlier and is far more likely to keep charges from being filed. Second, information control is at the center of the white-collar crime attorney’s work. The lawyer is concerned with acquisition of crucial information and keeps damaging information out of the hands of police investigators and public prosecutors. A third theme centers on a major dilemma of these lawyers: how to vigorously defend the client without thereby becoming a party to the criminal act (Kiser, 1986).

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  • Petter Gottschalk, 2014. "White-Collar Crime Defense Strategies," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Financial Crime and Knowledge Workers, chapter 3, pages 55-75, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-38716-5_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137387165_4
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