JaneAnne MurrayPractitioner in ResidenceUniversity College Cork, B.C.L. Professor JaneAnne Murray joined the Law School in August 2011 as Practitioner in Residence. She specializes in criminal law and government investigations and teaches corporate investigations. Her research interests include the Fourth Amendment, prosecutorial discretion, and federal sentencing. Professor Murray received her B.C.L. degree from University College Cork in 1989 and her LL.M. degree from the University of Cambridge in 1990, both with first-class honors. After law school, she worked in New York as a litigation associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP; an assistant federal public defender in the Eastern District of New York; and a litigation counsel at O’Melveny & Myers LLP before opening her own practice focused on criminal defense. From 1999 to 2000, Professor Murray was the International Advisor for the U.N. High Commission for Human Rights in Kampot Cambodia. She has defended individuals in many high-profile cases and investigations, including executives and directors at Tyco, A.I.G., and Lehman Brothers, and has been lead counsel in more than 20 jury trials. In 2011 her motion to suppress the evidence obtained from the first individual subjected to a Title III wiretap in an insider-trading case resulted in an overhaul of its wiretapping procedures by the Southern District of New York’s U.S. Attorney’s Office. A frequent guest lecturer at CLE programs, she serves on the board of the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and writes regularly on criminal law and procedure issues for the New York Law Journal, Atticus, White Collar Crime Reporter, and the blog she created and writes, "New York Federal Criminal Practice." Professor Murray created and organizes the annual Bloomsday Celebration of the Irish-American Bar Association of New York, which showcases Ulysses and James Joyce's contribution to the First Amendment.
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