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| | Location: Suite 208
13006 East Philadelphia Street, Whittier, California 90601, (Los Angeles Co.) | | |
(Main Office)
| Michael Angelo Vacchio
A Professional Law Corporation practices in the following areas of law:
Business Litigation, White Collar Criminal Defense, Environmental Litigation, Oil Spills, Trucking Law, Commercial Litigation, Real Estate Litigation, Trial Practice. | Firm Profile:
Mike Vacchio has a solid background in general commercial litigation and trial work. Mike's practice focuses on environmental litigation, both private party and government enforcement matters (administrative, civil and criminal), as well as internal company investigations, and the attendant external follow up proceedings such as Grand Jury investigations and criminal and civil enforcement actions in all types of business contexts. Prior to opening his own practice in August 2000, Mike, through two firm mergers, spent a combined total of 17 years with Hahn & Cazier (1983-1985), Hahn, Cazier & Smaltz (1985-1987) and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius (1987-2000). Mike has substantial experience in environmental and workplace exposure matters, as well as insider trading and securities/commodities fraud cases. Mike has represented a publicly traded aerospace company and a geothermal energy producer in federal and state investigations and prosecutions for the alleged illegal storage, transportation and disposal of hazardous wastes (rocket fuel and geothermal filters). He represented a secondary smelter metals recycling facility in a criminal prosecution charging multiple counts of workplace exposure violations. Mike also has represented various commercial transportation entities in criminal oil spill prosecutions and similar Hazmat transportation matters. Recently he represented a Fortune 500 paper recycling company in a grand jury investigation and successfully avoided indictment in a Clean Water Act case involving the illegal dumping of more than 2,500 tons of waste in protected wetlands. Mike also represented a satellite communications company, and its president, in a DIS security clearance investigation regarding alleged disclosures of classified information to the Chinese. Mike's securities experience includes assisting in the representation of the late Don Karcher, and his wife, Dolly, in the Karcher insider trading proceedings. Mike is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts in California. | | Firm Size: 1 | | Michael A. Vacchio (Member) born Glen Cove, New York, February 27, 1958; admitted to bar, 1983, California; U.S. District Court, Northern, Eastern, Central and Southern Districts of California; U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Education: Whittier College (B.A., with honors, 1980); University of California, Hastings College of the Law (J.D., cum laude, 1983). Order of the Coif; Thurston Society. Member, Whittier Area and Santa Fe Springs Chambers of Commerce. Member: Whittier, Los Angeles County (Member, Litigation Section), Federal (Member, Criminal Justice/White Collar Crime Section) and American (Member, Sections on: Litigation; Criminal Justice/White Collar Crime) Bar Associations; Italian American Lawyers Association (Officer and Former Member, Board of Governors). Practice Areas: Business Law; Commercial Law; Contracts; Criminal Law; Environmental Law; Litigation; Real Estate. Email: Michael A. Vacchio |
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