Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2008 
Doug Grover is a former federal and state prosecutor who investigated and tried numerous criminal matters ranging from complicated financial schemes to mafia-related crimes before obtaining many trial acquittals and no-prosecution deals as a defense lawyer. Doug currently practices white-collar criminal law and related litigation as well as civil litigation, where he has successfully tried many civil jury, bench, and arbitration cases. Doug has represented businesses and individuals, including politicians, corporate officers, attorneys, doctors, architects, financial advisers, accountants, securities analysts and traders, investment bankers, and government agents. Doug has defended clients facing allegations of campaign-finance violations; government corruption (including bribery and foreign corrupt practices); securities, environmental, tax, and antitrust crimes; fraud; and false statements to government officials and investigators.
Doug has represented companies and corporate executives in both civil and criminal investigations involving workplace deaths; bribery of government officials (in the U.S. and internationally); theft from federally funded entities, undocumented employees; theft of trade secrets and other corporate espionage; re-sale of misbranded pharmaceuticals over the Internet; unfair student loan practices; government contract fraud; and environmental violations involving asbestos remediation, the Clean Water Act, and illegal oil discharges on oceangoing vessels.
In addition, Doug’s practice has included litigating federal forfeiture issues on behalf of banks, foreign businesses, and individuals, including allegations involving illegal structuring and money laundering.
Doug began his legal career as an Assistant District Attorney in the Kings County District Attorney’s Office, where he handled jury trials and criminal appeals related to homicides and other serious felonies. He then spent ten years as Special Counsel and Deputy Chief of the U.S. Department of Justice, Organized Crime Strike Force for the Eastern District of New York. He convicted the heads of the Gambino and Colombo organized crime families, as well as numerous officials in the New York City Carpenters’ Union, on labor racketeering charges.
Doug has been ranked on the highly coveted U.S. News & World Report “Best Lawyers in America®" list for the past 15 years. He has also been selected for the New York Metro Area list of Super Lawyers® for Criminal Defense: White-Collar, and holds an AV rating from Martindale Hubbell. He has been a guest lecturer at Fordham Law School and the Kings County District Attorney’s Office Trial Advocacy Program. He also serves as President of the Board of Trustees of the Eastern District Civil Litigation Fund, a court-established, not-for-profit entity providing support to pro-se litigants.
