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AWARDS PRESENTER COURT CRIER

SEAN HECKER, a partner at MYRNA FELDER is a matrimo-
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, and a nial attorney practicing at both the
member of the firm’s Management trial and appellate levels. A former
Committee, is an experienced trial Chair of the New York State Bar As-
lawyer whose practice focuses on sociation’s Committee on Courts of
white collar criminal defense, inter- Appellate Jurisdiction, Ms. Felder
nal investigations and complex civil organized the State Bar’s day-long
litigation. He has tried numerous cases to juries in CLE program on New York appel-
federal and state court and regularly defends indi- late practice, and has been a frequent lecturer on
viduals and companies in grand jury and regulatory appellate practice for the Appellate Division, First
investigations and criminal proceedings involving Department; the American Bar Association; the
allegations of securities and commodities fraud, Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York;
money laundering, tax fraud and criminal antitrust and other bar groups. Ms. Felder serves on the
violations. Mr. Hecker has conducted many internal Subcommittee on Appellate Practice of the New
investigations of alleged FCPA violations and regu- York State Office of Court Administration’s Advisory
larly advises companies on anti-corruption compli- Committee on Civil Practice, of which she has been
ance. a member since 1983, and authored the chapter,
“Special Considerations in Matrimonial Appeals” in
Mr. Hecker is a member of the Criminal Justice Act Thomas Newman’s New York Appellate Practice. A
Panel in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New member of the Board of Directors of Office of the
York. Prior to joining Debevoise, he was a trial law- Appellate Defender, Ms. Felder was one of a num-
yer with the Federal Defenders of New York, where ber of enthusiastic supporters for the creation of the
he defended individuals charged in the Southern First Monday in October program, for which she has
District of New York with a wide range of federal served as co-chair since its inception twenty-four
offenses and handled numerous trials and hearings. years ago.
A frequent author on anti-corruption issues, Mr.
Hecker is a member of the White Collar Crime
Committee of the New York City Bar Association,
and co-chairs the Sentencing Subcommittee of the
ABA’s Criminal Justice Section’s White Collar Crime
Committee. He is Chair of the Board of Office of
the Appellate Defender, and serves on the boards
of the Federal Defender of New York, Inc., the New
York Council of Defense Lawyers and Just Deten-
tion International.
Mr. Hecker received a J.D. from Stanford Law
School, a master’s degree in public policy from the
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University, and a B.A. from Columbia College. He
served as a law clerk for Judge John M. Walker,
Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the
Second Circuit, and Judge Sidney H. Stein, of the
United States District Court for the Southern District
of New York.

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