Dallas Prosecutor Sid Mody Jumps to O’Melveny White Collar Team

Former Texas prosecutor Sid Mody has joined O’Melveny & Myers in Dallas as a partner in the white collar defense and corporate investigations practice, the law firm announced Monday.

Mody joins the firm from the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas, where he was a first-chair trial lawyer working on national security, cybercrime, money laundering and other matters, according to O’Melveny.

He prosecuted cryptocurrency, cyberfraud, ransomware, and hacking cases, the firm said. Mody, who began his career as an assistant district attorney in Tarrant County, was the office’s digital currency crimes coordinator and the national security cyber ...