Dwight P. Bostwick, Partner

An experienced civil and white-collar criminal litigator, Mr. Bostwick has achieved highly successful results for a variety of clients.  Drawing on his experience as a former federal prosecutor of fraud cases for the Department of Justice, Mr. Bostwick provides clients with sound judgment in negotiation and aggressive, effective advocacy in court. 

In the civil arena, Mr. Bostwick has represented corporations, partnerships, associations, unions, and individuals in complex fraud and commercial matters.  Over the past several years, Mr. Bostwick has represented an international pharmaceutical company based in Paris in the successful litigation and negotiation of a number of multi-million dollar commercial disputes.  He has also represented a professional association of psychologists in a fraud action targeted at remedying managed care abuse; a telecommunications entrepreneur in an international commercial dispute; and one of the nation’s largest labor unions in a series of successful trials conducted to purge its ranks of organized crime influence.   At the request of a major labor union, and with the approval of the Department of Justice, Mr. Bostwick has also served as  the Financial Compliance Officer for national labor union elections in 2001 and 2006.    

In the white-collar criminal area, Mr. Bostwick is active in the representation of clients in federal grand jury investigations involving mail, wire, securities, and accounting fraud. His clients have included a national accounting firm, numerous corporate executives, and officials in governmental, and non-governmental organizations.  Before entering private practice, Mr. Bostwick served as an official in the Deputy Attorney General’s Office in the Department of Justice. Prior to that appointment, Mr. Bostwick was a Trial Attorney in the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section where, among other assignments, he was one of three prosecutors responsible for the original Whitewater grand jury investigation prior to the appointment of the Independent Counsel.

Other Experience

• Deputy Special Counsel for Financial Institution Fraud, United States Department of Justice
• Trial Attorney, Fraud Section of the Criminal Division, United States Department of Justice
• Law Clerk to The Honorable Manuel L. Real, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California