Tracy Cole is a partner in the Litigation Group in the firm’s New York office. She focuses her practice on white collar and corporate criminal matters, as well as general commercial litigation. Since joining the firm, Ms. Cole has successfully represented individuals and corporations in connection with federal and state criminal investigations. She also represents clients in civil litigation and arbitration, including actual and threatened civil RICO claims, civil antitrust claims and disputes arising out of partnership, employment, licensing, sales and other agreements.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Cole served as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney’s Office. There she was assigned to the Career Criminal Program, a unit that specializes in prosecuting major cases and repeat felony offenders. In that capacity, she prosecuted schemes to defraud, grand larcenies, credit card fraud, and identity theft as well as attempted murders, robberies, assaults, burglaries and narcotics offenses.

Prominent cases prosecuted by Ms. Cole included large-scale employee thefts from financial institutions, educational institutions and other businesses; a wide-ranging complex immigration scheme to defraud more than one hundred victims; a pattern of commercial burglaries in midtown Manhattan; a pattern of gun- and knife-point robberies of deliverymen; and an attempted shooting outside the Empire State Building.

Before joining the District Attorney’s Office, Ms. Cole served as a law clerk to the Hon. David M. Ebel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. While in law school she was a Notes Editor of the Columbia Law Review.