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Luke Fiedler represents individuals, small businesses, and Fortune 500 companies in criminal proceedings, governmental and internal investigations, and complex commercial litigation in state and federal court. 

Luke’s experience includes securing an acquittal on all counts for a medical doctor charged in a $355 million federal health care fraud prosecution after a three-month jury trial. He also secured significant pretrial improvements for a client facing $13 million Medi-Cal fraud charges and obtained a declination of criminal charges in an SEC insider trading action.

Concentrations

  • Health care fraud and abuse
  • Securities and financial fraud
  • Insider trading
  • False Claims Act and Qui Tam defense
  • Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and anti-bribery enforcement defense
  • Public corruption
  • Bank fraud
  • Mail and wire fraud
  • Government investigations
  • Internal investigations and compliance
  • Civil rights
  • Complex litigation

Capabilities

Experience

  • Defended a medical doctor charged in a $355 million federal health care fraud prosecution. After a three-month trial, the jury fully acquitted the client on all 33 felony counts. All other defendants were convicted on all counts.°
  • Defended a medical doctor charged with $13 million Medi-Cali fraud. Obtained a bail reduction of over $10 million and several other significant improvements to the doctor’s pretrial electronic monitoring conditions.°
  • Represented an individual investigated by the Department of Justice for allegedly participating in an insider trading scheme. The DOJ elected not to indict the client, even though the DOJ indicted and secured convictions against several other individuals allegedly associated with the scheme.°
  • Secured a settlement in a civil rights action on behalf of the family of a victim of a fatal police shooting.°
  • Defended an individual charged in the nation’s first-ever federal “birth tourism” prosecution, and assisted in securing a plea agreement where the client pleaded guilty to only two counts of a 28-count indictment. Despite the government seeking a sentence of 33 months imprisonment, the court sentenced the client to time served and minimal supervised release.°

°The above representations were handled by Mr. Fiedler prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.

  • Commissioner, City of Long Beach Ethics Commission, 2020-2023
  • Judicial Intern, Hon. S. James Otero, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, 2015
  • Judicial Intern, Hon. Suzanne H. Segal, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, 2014
  • Judicial Intern, Hon. Judith Ashmann-Gerst, Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, 2014

Credentials

Education
  • J.D., Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
    • Chief Articles & Symposia Editor, Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review
  • B.A., with honors, University of Chicago
Clerkships
  • Hon. Sheri Pym, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, 2015-2017
Admissions
  • California
  • Illinois

Related Capabilities

Litigation White Collar Defense & Investigations