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DAVID A. SCHWARTZ, ESQ. is a partner in the law firm of Schwartz & Posnock. Mr. Schwartz, an attorney since 1983, is licensed in the State and Federal Courts of New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and California, as well as before the United States Supreme Court.
Mr. Schwartz was a member of the Executive Committee of the Criminal Law Section of the State Bar of California in 1996.
As a Special Assistant Corporation Counsel for the New York City Law Department, New York, Special Federal Litigation Division, Mr. Schwartz was awarded the Division Chief’s Award for Outstanding Legal Services on behalf of the City of New York in 2003.
Mr. Schwartz clerked for the Hon. John Garrett Penn, U.S.D.J., in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and worked extensively on the trial ABSCAM defendant John Jenrrett, former U.S. Congressman from South Carolina.
Presentations: August, 2001, The Association of Healthcare Internal Auditors Annual Conference (Outside counsel’s cooperation with health care provider’s counsel to uncover potential fraud and abuse); March, 1999, Surviving Health Care Fraud Investigations – the Federal Health Care Acquisition Conference, United States Department of Defense and Department of Veteran’s Affairs; 1996, The University of California, State Bar of California “Business Crimes: Their Collateral Consequences for Employers;” and the State Bar of California: “Into the Modern Age: Using Computers, the Internet and Demonstrative Techniques in the Courtroom.”
Testimony: 1994, before the Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules of the Judicial Conference of the United States regarding proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.
Articles: “The Role of Internal Auditors and Provider Attorneys in Investigations, “New Perspectives on Healthcare Auditing, Vol. 20, No. 3, Summer 2001; “The Digital Telephony Legislation of 1994: Law Enforcement Hitches a Ride on the Information Superhighway, “Criminal Law Bulletin, Vol. 31, No. 3, May-June 1995; “Corporate Compliance Programs Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines: From Theoretical to Effective Implementation,” California Business Law Reporter, Vol. 16, No. 1, July 1994; “Using the Amendments to the Domestic Violence Act Offensively,” New Jersey Lawyer (1 NJL 1057) July 1992; and “Defending the Driving Under the Influence of Drugs Case,” New Jersey Lawyer (1 NJL 369) March 1992. Contributing author, California Criminal Law Forms Manual (CEB, University of California, 1994), and Prescription Drug Abuse and Dependence, Ch. 9, “Legal Dispositions and Interventions” (with Daniel P. Greenfield, M.D.), Charles C. Thomas Company, 1994.
Education: Rutgers University, BA, History and Political Science, with Highest Honors (1979); New York University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (1980); Antioch University School of Law, Juris Doctor (1983); teaching assistant 1983.
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LESLIE B. POSNOCK, ESQ., is a partner in the law firm of Schwartz & Posnock. Ms. Posnock, an attorney since 1984, is licensed in the State and Federal Courts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and California. Ms. Posnock is a former public defender in Philadelphia and New Jersey. Ms. Posnock has represented individuals in hundreds of cases, involving charges of murder, drugs, sexual assault, mail fraud, wire fraud, theft, forgery, kidnapping, robbery, assault, burglary, Municipal Court matters (including traffic ticket defense), and driving under the influence cases. She has successfully litigated numerous appeals and petitions for post-conviction relief. She has also represented witnesses before Federal and State Grand Juries, and has obtained expungements for her clients.
Ms. Posnock was trial and appellate counsel in State of New Jersey v. Alex Grant, an important case in which her client’s indictment for murder was dismissed by the Appellate Division.
Ms. Posnock has lectured on criminal law topics to the Bar Association of San Francisco Young Lawyers Division, and has written articles on criminal law topics, including “A Model Code of Conduct,” Business Crimes Bulletin, Compliance and Litigation, Vol. 1, No. 3, April 1994. While a student at the University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Posnock worked for the Hon. A. Leon Higginbotham, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Education: University of Pennsylvania, BA History (1980); American University, Juris Doctor (1984), recipient of Dean’s Award for Professional Responsibility and Outstanding Student in Criminal Trial Clinical Program.
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CHRISTINE M. PALUMBO, is an associate in the law firm of Schwartz & Posnock. Ms. Palumbo, an attorney since 2010, is licensed in the State and Federal Courts of New Jersey.
Prior to joining Schwartz & Posnock as an attorney, Ms. Palumbo was an associate at Dechert L.L.P. in the firm’s Princeton office. During law school, Ms. Palumbo interned at the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office, the Superior Court of New Jersey – Mercer County, Criminal Division, and the Superior Court of New Jersey – Monmouth County, Criminal Division.
Education: The College of New Jersey, BA and BS, Psychology and Criminal Justice Studies (2007), summa cum laude; Harvard Law School, Juris Doctor (2007).
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