Education:

Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, NY

• Juris Doctor, cum laude, 1995
• Cardozo Law Review, Articles Editor

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

• Bachelor of Science, 1988
• Major - Applied Economics and Business Management
  

Teaching Experience:

• Adjunct Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (Seminar on Federal Sentencing), 2006 to present

Admissions:

• State of New York
• United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Professional Activities and Affiliations:

• Member, Practitioners Advisory Group to the United States Sentencing Commission (2008 to Present)
• Program Chair and Panelist, "Sentencing in the Post-Booker Era," CLE Program at the New York City Bar Association, April 4, 2008

• Panelist, "Crack Cocaine: The 'Reasonableness' of 100-to-1 Sentencing," Columbia University, October 24, 2007

• Program Chair, "Techniques and Strategies in Investigating and Litigating Tax Prosecution Cases," CLE Program at the New York City Bar Association, June 20, 2007

• Member, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

• Member, Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Criminal Law Committee, June 2007 to present; Criminal Advocacy Committee, June 2004 to June 2007)

• Member, Executive Council, Lawyers Division, Criminal Law Group, UJA-Federation of New York (Vice Chair, June 2007 to Present)

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Harlan J. Protass is a committed advocate with close to fifteen years of experience representing individuals and corporations in criminal, regulatory and commercial litigation matters. He has counseled targets, subjects and witnesses in cases involving securities fraud, insider trading, tax evasion, money laundering, antitrust price-fixing, enterprise corruption, embezzlement and larceny, structuring, perjury and obstruction of justice. In addition, Mr. Protass has represented individuals and corporations in connection with investigations undertaken by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the National Association of Securities Dealers, the New York Stock Exchange, state securities regulators, the New York Attorney General's Office and the New York State Department of Taxation.

As an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and the creator of the Second Circuit Sentencing Blog, Mr. Protass is also a recognized expert in the application of the United States Sentencing Guidelines. Mr. Protass regularly challenges guidelines calculations and other sentencing factors, and frequently obtains sentences below recommended guidelines.

Mr. Protass previously served as Special Counsel at O'Shea Partners LLP, and as a litigation associate at Squadron Ellenoff Plesent & Sheinfeld LLP and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. A native New Yorker, Mr. Protass graduated from Cornell University and the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (cum laude), where he served as an Editor of the Cardozo Law Review.

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