Alan Silber has litigated cases in Federal Courts and numerous State Courts across the United States. He has tried major white-collar cases involving RICO, bank, securities, telemarketing, health care, wire and mail fraud, as well as significant money laundering cases, kidnapping (representing a police officer), and murder. His practice is concentrated on federal and state complex criminal litigation. Mr. Silber also represents lawyers in disciplinary cases before the District Ethics Committee and Disciplinary Review Board.
Mr. Silber is a member of the State bars of New Jersey, New York, California and Virginia as well as of nine United States’ District Courts. He has litigated in more than a dozen other Federal District Courts pro hac vice. An experienced appellate advocate, Mr. Silber has appeared and litigated cases in five United States Courts of Appeals, the United States Supreme Court, the State appellate courts of New York, New Jersey, and in the Supreme Court of Oregon.
Outside of the courtroom, Mr. Silber has earned a reputation for his work with criminal defense bar associations, as a lecturer, author and as a drug law reformer. He is a fomer member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), and served on its Executive Committee. He has been the Chairman of the Drug Law Reform Committee and was chair of the Electronic Discovery Committee of that organization. Recently returned from living in Virginia, Mr. Silber was the Fourth Circuit Coordinator for the Lawyer’s Assistance Committee and the Fourth Circuit Vice-Chair of the Amicus Committee of NACDLwhile he was there. Before moving to Virginia, Mr. Silber was the Third Circuit Coordinator for the Lawyer’s Assistance Committee and Third Circuit Vice-Chair of the Amicus Committee. He was a member of the Blakely/Booker Committee, which analyzed NACDL responses to the fast-changing world of federal sentencing in the light of Supreme Court decisions, and is a member of the White Collar Criminal Defense Committee.
Mr. Silber was the Eighth President of the Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey and a founding member. Mr. Silber was also a founding member of the board of directors of the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and is a Fellow of the American Board of Criminal Trial Attorneys. In 1995, he was appointed as the State Bar representative on the Legislature's Sentencing Policy Study Commission.Mr. Silber is included in Who's Who in American Law, 1997-present. He was recognized by New Jersey Super Lawyers 2008 through 2010 in the area of White Collar Criminal Defense. He is recognized in the field of Criminal Defense for White Collar and Non-White Collar in the 2010 edition of Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-view publication in the legal profession.
He has appeared as a speaker in criminal defense seminars in Virginia, New Jersey, New York, Florida, Louisiana, Washington, D.C., Oregon, Colorado and England. His articles have appeared in The Champion (magazine of NACDL), Rutgers Law Review, The New Jersey Law Journal and The Vindicator (magazine of Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers).
Alan Silber was graduated from Duke University and the Columbia University School of Law.
E-MAIL: asilber@whbesqs.com
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