Special Counsel
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PO Box 46 (36601)
Mobile, AL 36603
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Michel Nicrosi is a member of the firm's Corporate Compliance & White Collar Defense section of the Business & Commercial Litigation Practice Group. Her practice focuses on preventive and litigation services for businesses and individuals in corporate and white collar criminal matters.

Ms. Nicrosi served as a federal prosecutor for over 16 years. After graduating from the University of Alabama School of Law, she joined the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. She was appointed to the Department of Justice under the Attorney General's Honor Program, the Department's premier recruitment program. For several years, Ms. Nicrosi served as a trial attorney in the Southern Criminal Enforcement Section of the Tax Division. She prosecuted white collar criminal cases with an emphasis on tax fraud and other financial crimes in several states throughout the country. In 1995, Ms. Nicrosi transferred to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Alabama, where she continued to handle white collar cases involving fraud, public corruption, and cybercrime. From 1997 to 2001, she served as chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney's Office. As chief, she was responsible for supervising the criminal attorneys and managing the criminal litigation for the judicial district. In 2006, Ms. Nicrosi successfully defended the former chief of staff to the governor of Alabama in the most significant public corruption trial in Alabama's history. A federal jury acquitted the former official on all charges, including RICO violations, mail and wire fraud, and obstruction of justice, after a nine-week trial.

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Case Studies

• Tax Evasion: From Criminal Investigation to Civil Examination

News

• Nicrosi Brings Tax Evasion Case from Criminal Investigation into Civil Court
• Nicrosi Obtains Acquittal for Former Chief of Staff in Major Public Corruption Trial
• Nicrosi Recognized for Service by FBI

Memberships

• Alabama State Bar
• Alabama Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (Member, Board of Directors and District Vice President)
• American Bar Association
• Farrah Law Society, University of Alabama School of Law (Former member, Board of Trustees)
• Leadership Mobile Program (Graduate, 1997)
• Mobile Bar Association
• St. Luke's Episcopal School (Former member, Board of Trustees)
• Trinity Episcopal Church (Warden and member of the Vestry)
• YWCA (Former member, Board of Directors)