Tom Pollack has more than 35 years of experience defending individuals and entities charged with an array of white collar crimes, in federal and state trial and appellate courts. He also defends individuals and companies targeted by administrative agencies, including the SEC, IRS, and FTC. Before joining Irell & Manella LLP, Mr. Pollack was the acting Federal Public Defender for the Central District of California.

Mr. Pollack’s practice focuses on the zealous representation of individuals under investigation or charged with crimes. Mr. Pollack has an outstanding record of trial victories. In the past several years, he has prevailed in all of his trials, including:

• a jury trial of a tax attorney who was also the CEO of a motion picture studio, on tax evasion charges;
• a jury trial of a principal of a real estate company, on insider trading charges;
• a court trial of a prominent tax lawyer, on charges that he aided his client evade taxes through the use of offshore banks and entities.

Mr. Pollack has been selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America for the past ten years, and in 2009 was named by Los Angeles Magazine to the Southern California "Super Lawyers" list for the sixth consecutive year.

Mr. Pollack has successfully defended clients in many notable white-collar investigations and prosecutions, including an in-house attorney in the Drexel-Michael Milken investigation; a former state senator charged with political corruption in the Sacramento Brispec prosecution; the former owner of the Los Angeles Kings charged with bank fraud; the CEO of a publicly-traded company in a post-Enron securities fraud prosecution; and an offshore insurance company in a widely-publicized criminal tax shelter and fraud investigation.

Mr. Pollack represents professionals and executives in investigations and prosecutions involving an array of alleged criminal violations. This has included attorneys under investigation for alleged tax evasion, securities violations, and mail fraud, and corporate executives, officers, directors, employees and others in a broad range of federal criminal matters, including alleged bank fraud, money-laundering, mail fraud, securities law violations, antitrust law violations, FCPA violations, tax fraud, false claims, export law violations, and environmental crimes.

Mr. Pollack is admitted to the California and New York bar.