Todd A. Pickles

Todd A. Pickles represents clients in white collar matters and investigations as well as in business litigation, tort, employment, constitutional, and environmental claims. Todd has participated in 17 federal jury trials and argued before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on multiple occasions. Todd also represents clients in federal and state court with respect to trade secret misappropriation.

As a former assistant United States attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California, Todd’s experience includes investigations and prosecutions related to securities fraud, investment fraud, bank fraud, health care fraud, and identity fraud. Given this experience, Todd regularly provides commentary to news media concerning on-going criminal matters.

Todd previously served as the civil rights and hate crimes coordinator as well as the public corruption coordinator for the Eastern District of California.

Concentrations

•White collar investigations
•Federal criminal law
•Fraud
•Trade secrets

Clerkships

•Hon. Saundra Brown Armstrong, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, 2001-2002