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Jeffrey Rabkin is a Vice President in Stroz Friedberg’s San Francisco office where he manages digital forensics and electronic discovery engagements for Fortune 500 companies and major law firms. He also oversees complex white collar investigations involving computer crimes, corporate fraud, and theft of trade secrets.

Prior to Stroz Friedberg, Mr. Rabkin served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of New York and the Northern District of California. He led numerous high-profile, sensitive investigations and prosecutions involving corporate fraud, mortgage fraud, investment/ponzi schemes, money laundering, forfeiture of unlawfully earned proceeds, public corruption and large-scale identity theft. Mr. Rabkin has also prosecuted murder-for-hire and RICO cases, as well as matters involving organized crime, international narcotics organizations, and domestic street gangs. Before serving as a federal prosecutor, U.S. District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin named him Special Master for the Initial Public Offering Litigation, which constituted over three hundred consolidated class action lawsuits tied to alleged securities fraud. Mr. Rabkin also held the position of Deputy City Attorney in San Francisco. For five years, he successfully represented San Francisco in state and federal lawsuits related to constitutional questions, difficult commercial matters and tort claims. Mr. Rabkin obtained experience with complex discovery projects during his career as an associate with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, specializing in antitrust, securities and insurance coverage litigation, accountant liability and employment claims.

Mr. Rabkin served as a law clerk for the Honorable Shira A. Scheindlin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, with whom he has authored three articles relating to ediscovery. He has published additional articles relating to white collar crime and has also lectured at the Department of Justice’s National Advocacy Center on parallel proceedings.

Mr. Rabkin graduated cum laude from Harvard University with a B.A. in social studies. He received his J.D. from Columbia University, where he was a senior editor of the Columbia Law Review and received the Harlan Fiske Stone award for academic achievement.