Joseph M. Burton

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Of Counsel

  Firm Name

  Duane Morris LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Matters: Counsel for ElcomSoft Company, a Russian software developer, facing the first criminal prosecution under the controversial federal statute known as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). ElcomSoft was acquitted of all charges in this precedent setting case
  Counsel to a co-defendant in a federal criminal investigation, the first of its kind, involving the export of strong cryptography software. As a result of counsel's activity, the government declined to bring charges against the defendant
  Counsel to the subject of a federal public corruption investigation in San Francisco on two separate
  independent occasions involving contractors suspected of offering bribes. As a result, the criminal investigations of these individuals were terminated
  no charges were brought against them
  Counsel to the executive of a successful
  thriving dot com start-up company under investigation by the SEC for securities violations. As a result, no criminal charges were brought against the client
  only minimal civil sanctions were imposed
  Counsel to a nationally known biotechnology firm in defense of a multi-million dollar patent infringement suit relating to the development, marketing
  distribution of the client's product. Retained as lead trial counsel after the first case ended in a mistrial. The case was settled shortly before the second trial on terms favorable to the client
  As a former Federal Prosecutor, counsel in the investigation of former
  then notorious computer hacker Kevin Poulsen for activities related to computer intrusion. This was one of the earliest criminal investigations of computer hackers (1988). As a result, in part because of this original investigation, Poulsen was subsequently indicted
  convicted of various computer crimes.