Miner Orkand Siddall LLP, a boutique criminal defense law firm that opened its doors this week in Boston, joins the growing list of firms opening or expanding offices there.
Boston has “a very vibrant legal market” and is a great place to practice criminal law because it has an active U.S. attorney’s office and a high-powered district attorney’s office, Tracy A. Miner told Bloomberg Law.
Morrison & Foerster, Orrick, Quinn Emanuel, and Pierce Bainbridge have all opened offices there in the past few months, citing the city’s tech industry among reasons for doing so.
Kirkland & Ellis, DLA Piper, and Hogan Lovells have also grown their Boston offices recently.
Miner, Seth Orkand, and Megan Siddall left Demeo LLP to start their own firm because “it made sense to break off,” Miner said. Demeo is a collection of lawyers and our group was getting big enough “to do it ourselves,” she said.
Miner said she hopes to ultimately add one to two more attorneys but “not in the immediate future.”
The firm represents clients facing allegations that include healthcare fraud, financial and securities fraud, construction and procurement fraud, Title IX investigations, scientific research misconduct, and tax fraud and wage theft.
It’s currently embroiled in litigation involving client Mike Gurry, the former vice president of managed markets at Insys Therapeutics Inc. The company’s former executives have been charged with participating in a scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe the company’s opioid medication.
Insys’s billionaire founder, John Kapoor, is being represented by Beth Wilkinson of Wilkinson Walsh + Eskovitz.
The company settled last August with the Department of Justice and agreed to pay $150 million to resolve related claims.
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