Atty. Gordon Mehler
Gordon Mehler is a white-collar criminal and civil litigator who has over 30 years of experience as a lawyer. This includes more than a decade as a federal prosecutor, where he supervised public corruption cases as Chief of Special Prosecutions.
Criminal Defense: White-Collar Attorney · Serving New York, NY
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About Gordon Mehler at a Glance
Gordon Mehler is a criminal defense and white collar attorney based in New York, New York, practicing at Walden Macht Haran & Williams LLP. Educated at New York University (JD, 1982). Recognitions include Best Lawyers in America — Criminal Defense: White-Collar (2026), Best Lawyers in America — Additional Areas of Practice: (2026), and Best Lawyers in America — Litigation - Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy) (2026). Serves clients in New York, NY and the surrounding metropolitan area.
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About Gordon Mehler
- Gordon Mehler is a white-collar criminal and civil litigator who has over 30 years of experience as a lawyer
- This includes more than a decade as a federal prosecutor, where he supervised public corruption cases as Chief of Special Prosecutions
- After serving as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., Mr. Mehler moved back to New York to open his own firm in 2000
- Mehler Law concentrates on all aspects of white-collar criminal defense as well as regulatory enforcement and civil litigation
- As a defense lawyer and prosecutor, Mr. Mehler was lead counsel in more than two dozen trials, many of which related to charges of fraud and corruption
- Mr. Mehler represented one of five defendants in a nearly six-month federal criminal trial stemming from the Bernard Madoff securities fraud, as well as one of the original seven international soccer-related defendants extradited from Switzerland in the FIFA racketeering case
- As a prosecutor, he earned the Justice Department’s Director’s Award for Superior Performance
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Broad Practice Area Coverage
Covering criminal defense and white collar, Gordon Mehler can address the full spectrum of a client's legal needs without requiring referrals to separate specialists for each issue.
Local Presence in New York
A New York-based practice means Gordon Mehler attends hearings in the same courthouses, knows the local clerks, and understands the unwritten scheduling norms that affect every case filed here.
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