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T. Markus Funk is a partner in Perkins Coie’s Litigation exercise and a member of the organization’s Investigations & White Collar Defense group. A pro trial legal professional and investigator who helped establish the organization s Corporate Social Responsibility and Supply Chain Practice, Markus counsels corporate and character customers inside the areas of complicated commercial litigation, inner investigations, compliance, and company white collar crook protection. Markus focuses on company social duty and global supply chain compliance and due diligence, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the United Kingdom Bribery Act, the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act, Corporate Social Responsibility, Trafficking & Supply Chain Task Force, healthcare fraud, False Claims Act, customs and export manipulate, civil fraud, magnificence movement defense, training law, and RICO topics. As a federal prosecutor in Chicago with ten years’ revel in, Markus tried greater than 24 federal instances (attaining convictions in all of them), headed masses of investigations of and indicted masses of instances, and also has vast appellate experience.
During his tenure as a federal prosecutor, Markus prosecuted "Operation Family Secrets," that is described as the most huge racketeering case of its type in U.S. history. Selected from some nine,000 federal trials that 12 months to get hold of the Lawyer General s Award, the U.S. Lawyer General in my opinion presented Markus and the group with the very best trial performance difference the Department bestows on federal prosecutors, a first for the Chicago US Lawyer s Office.
From 2004-06, Markus served as the Department of Justice Resident Legal Advisor for Kosovo, helping oversee the U.S.’s multi-million dollar efforts to deliver the rule of thumb of law to this warfare-torn place. In that capacity, Markus represented america at diplomatic negotiations, led Balkan-huge efforts to modernize anti-corruption and anti-fraud enforcement, and spear-headed the restructuring of Kosovo’s publish-warfare justice gadget. Markus also labored with US and foreign authorities officials and business leaders to combat human trafficking. During this time, Markus authored the Kosovo Trial Skills Handbook, which remains the maximum referred to supply in Kosovo s Compilation of Applicable Criminal Laws.
In reputation of his provider whilst abroad, the USA Department of State conferred to Markus its Superior Honor Award for "sustained excellent overall performance," the highest general provider award conferred with the aid of the State Department. Markus has the distinction of being the handiest person to have obtained both the Department of Justice s Lawyer General s Award and the State Department s Superior Honor Award.
In addition to authoring dozens of crook law-associated academic and famous articles, as well as e book chapters on a huge form of subjects, Markus authored some of books, along with Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking: Examining the Global Challenges and U.S. Responses (Rowman Littlefield, 2012; co-authored with Chicago US District Judge Virginia M. Kendall), Stemming the Suffering: Victims’ Rights and the International Criminal Court (Oxford University Press, 2010), The Haiti Trial Skills Manual (American Bar Association), and the coming near near Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty Guide for federal judges (Federal Judicial Center). His felony paintings has been featured by means of retailers which includes The Atlantic, CNBC, CNN, The Economist, The History Channel, Investor’s Business Daily, The Los Angeles Times, MSNBC, The National Law Journal, National Geographic TV, the New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.
Markus commenced his legal career as a regulation clerk to the Hon. Morris S. Arnold of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and Chief U.S. District Judge Catherine Perry, and as a Lecturer in Law at Oxford University.
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- Partner
Perkins Coie
2010 - Assistant United States Lawyer (Chicago)
U.S. Department of Justice
2000 - Law Clerk
Hon. Morris S. Arnold (8th Circuit Court of Appeals)
1999 - Lecturer in Criminal Law
Oxford University Law Faculty
1997 - Law Clerk
Hon. Chatherine D. Perry
1995
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Graduation year: 1987
