Miles Ehrlich
Founding Partner


Education

Stanford Law School, J.D. 1992
Graduated First in Class
Order of the Coif
Articles Editor, Stanford Law Review

Harvard College, A.B. 1987, magna cum laude
Phi Beta Kappa


Judicial Clerkships

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy
Supreme Court of the United States, 1993-94

Judge William A. Norris
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1992-93


Professional Experience

United States Attorney's Office, Northern District of California
Chief, White Collar Crime Section, 2003-2005
Assistant United States Attorney, 2000 -2005

Public Integrity Section, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Trial Attorney, specializing in public corruption cases nationwide, 1994-2000


Professional Activities

Co-Chair, ABA White Collar Crime Subcommittee, Northern District of California

Lawyer Representative to Judicial Conference, Northern District of California and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals


Nationwide Federal Litigation Experience

Lead counsel in cases before federal courts and grand juries in California, New York, Washington, D.C., Virginia, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Hawaii, and Georgia



Miles Ehrlich is a seasoned trial lawyer with more than a dozen years of experience trying complex criminal cases in courtrooms across the country. Drawing upon his extensive background as a federal white-collar criminal prosecutor, Mr. Ehrlich has developed a wide-ranging criminal and SEC-defense practice, counseling corporate executives in highly-publicized criminal matters and defending individuals and small businesses against allegations brought by federal and state criminal and regulatory agencies.
Many of his matters involve the high-technology, health care, and financial services industries.

Through his years in both public and private practice, Mr. Ehrlich has handled criminal and administrative cases covering a broad range of legal issues -- including securities fraud, insider trading, accounting fraud, bribery, kickbacks, government program fraud, trade secret theft, counterfeit and copyright infringement, tax fraud, healthcare fraud, bank fraud, antitrust violations, mail and wire fraud, obstruction of justice, perjury/false statements, election offenses, and environmental matters.

With his reputation for strategic judgment, fierce advocacy, and meticulous preparation, Mr. Ehrlich has achieved an outstanding record of success for his clients before judges, juries, regulatory agencies, and appellate panels.

Click here for a list of the recent representative matters the firm has handled.

Before co-founding the law firm of Ramsey & Ehrlich, Mr. Ehrlich served for eleven years as a federal prosecutor in the United States Department of Justice. From 2003 through 2005, he was the Chief of the White Collar Crimes Section in the U.S. Attorney's Office in San Francisco, where he oversaw the prosecution of white-collar federal offenses throughout Northern California and worked closely with federal agencies, including the FBI, SEC, IRS, U.S. Customs, Department of Homeland Security, United States Coast Guard, and the EPA, in managing investigations of major criminal offenses.

While serving as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Mr. Ehrlich also personally prosecuted some of the office's most sensitive and challenging cases. He served as lead counsel in a highly-publicized jury trial of a prominent San Francisco plaintiffs’ attorney charged with fraud and money laundering in connection with his theft of millions of dollars in settlement funds belonging to his clients.

In another significant jury trial, Mr. Ehrlich secured the conviction of the Chief Financial Officer of Media Vision, a publicly-traded Silicon Valley technology company, for perpetrating an accounting fraud scheme. He also successfully prosecuted a former high-ranking officer in the City of San Francisco’s Department of Building Inspection for the theft of more than half a million dollars in public funds and obstruction of justice.

Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Francisco, Mr. Ehrlich spent six years as a public corruption prosecutor in the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section in Washington, DC. There, he handled trials and appeals in cases involving corruption charges against federal and state public officials in Ohio, Virginia, Florida, California, Minnesota, New York, Washington, D.C., Massachusetts, Georgia, and Hawaii.

Among the significant cases Mr. Ehrlich handled at the Public Integrity Section were the successful prosecutions of: an Assistant U.S. Attorney who accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in gratuities from cooperating witnesses; a federal probation officer who took bribes from a defendant she supervised; a deputy prison warden who accepted bribes from an inmate; and a high-ranking budget offer in the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) who stole more than $6 million in government funds.

Mr. Ehrlich received his law degree from Stanford Law School, where he graduated first in his class and was elected to the Order of the Coif. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and earned membership in the Phi Beta Kappa society. Before becoming a federal prosecutor, Mr. Ehrlich was a law clerk to Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on the United States Supreme Court, and Judge William A. Norris, formerly of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Before law school, Mr. Ehrlich worked as a legislative assistant to Congressman (now-Senator) Charles E. Schumer of New York.

Mr. Ehrlich has taught criminal law as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center. He has lectured on public corruption prosecution at the FBI’s training academy in Quantico, Virginia, and the Justice Department’s National Advocacy Center. He has also been a featured speaker on assorted criminal justice topics at the Northern District of California’s Judicial Conference, the Northern District’s Federal Practice Program, the ABA's White Collar Crime program, Stanford Law School, Boalt Hall School of Law, the Palo Alto Area Bar Association, and the West Coast General Counsel’s Conference.

Mr. Ehrlich is admitted to practice law in California and Pennsylvania. He has been admitted to practice in numerous federal District Courts and Circuit Courts of Appeal throughout the country.