Scott D. Joiner

Mr. Joiner’s experience includes representing:

Companies & Individuals

• A former BP officer and director as a defendant in multidistrict securities litigation, a Presidential Commission investigation, and a federal criminal probe related to the Deepwater Horizon explosion, including leading and supervising a large cross-office team*
• Sony in a federal criminal antitrust investigation and parallel civil class actions, including leading a team of lawyers and economists in an internal investigation, serving as the senior firm representative overseas, and interviewing dozens of witnesses in Japan and Taiwan*

Government Prosecutions

• U.S. v. Nuru, as lead prosecutor in the high-profile public corruption investigation that charged the former San Francisco Public Works’ director, three companies, and 11 other individuals (including two department heads and another high-ranking city official) with multiple bribery and money laundering offenses, securing multiple convictions*
• U.S. v. Chapin, a successful criminal case that convicted the defendant of bank fraud, wire fraud, and securities fraud for engaging in several ploys to lure individual investors, a venture capital firm, and a bank into providing millions of dollars’ worth of capital and credit to his digital advertising company based on false information*
• U.S. v. Frere, a criminal case in which the founder, majority owner, and CEO of three companies pleaded guilty to an extensive student loan debt relief scam involving more than 40,000 victims and millions of dollars laundered internationally*
• U.S. v. Williams, et al., as lead trial counsel in a four-month, five-defendant jury trial, securing convictions against all defendants based on RICO charges involving multiple murders, attempted murders, and child prostitution and trafficking*

* Matter handled prior to joining Latham & Watkins