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John W. Nields Jr
1299 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington DC 20004
+1 202.383.6639
+1 202.383.6610 (Fax)
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John Nields, Co-Chair of Howrey's white-collar defense practice, has over 30 years of experience in government and private practice. He specializes in white-collar criminal defense, civil litigation and arbitration, and has particular expertise in criminal appeals and cases involving the US Congress.
Mr. Nields formerly served as Assistant US Attorney for the Southern District of New York (1969-1974); senior law clerk to Associate Justice Byron R. White of the US Supreme Court (1974-1977); Chief Counsel to the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, US House of Representatives (1977-1979); Special Counsel for the US Department of Justice (1979-1980); Chief Counsel for the House Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran (1987); and Special Counsel for Rhode Island's commission to investigate the failure of Rhode Island's Insured Financial Institutions (1991-1992).
Representative Highlights
- United States v. Felt. As Special Counsel for the Department of Justice, successfully prosecuted the second and third ranking officials of the FBI for secretly breaking into homes of US citizens, copying their private documents and falsifying FBI records to conceal the manner in which the documents were obtained, all in violation of the Fourth Amendment. Witnesses included five former Attorneys General and a former President of the United States.
- United States v. Heller. Obtained, in the same criminal tax case, two reversals by the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in 1986 and 1987. The first was based on ethnic slurs uttered by the jury during its deliberations. The second was based on threats made to the defendant's accountant by the IRS, resulting in the accountant's untruthful testimony against the defendant.
- United States v. Hubbell. Defended Webster L. Hubbell against repeated indictments by Independent Counsel over a five-year period. Obtained the dismissal of one such indictment on the ground that it was tainted by documents produced under immunity, and obtained an affirmance of that dismissal in the US Supreme Court.
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Admissions
- New York, 1969
- District of Columbia, 1980
Courts & Adjudicative Bodies
- United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- United States Supreme Court
Clerkship
- Byron R. White, United States Supreme Court (1974-1977)
Education
- University of Pennsylvania Law School (LLB, 1967)
- Yale University (BA, 1964)
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