The two had worked together at the Justice Department and specialized in defending white-collar criminal defendants.

It's not every day that a prominent white-collar defendant makes an impassioned public defense barely a month before his criminal trial is set to start.

They might accept it for white-collar cases, since white-collar defendants almost never submit to police interrogations.

It's mainly earmarked, of course, for the white-collar defendant, someone who has some financial resource.

Today, most white-collar defendants in criminal cases receive little sympathy.

Any changes to the guidelines could alter the way prosecutors pursue companies and white-collar defendants.

It is not unprecedented, however, for the stress of trial to contribute to the death of white-collar defendants.

The changes could limit criminal racketeering charges against white-collar defendants.

He says he won't, for example, take on most criminal cases, with the exception of some white-collar defendants.

The changes could significantly limit the use of criminal racketeering charges against white-collar defendants.