During more than 40 years of private practice and government service, Alan Vickery has handled many high-stakes and high-profile cases across a wide range of industries. He has in-depth experience in civil and criminal litigation, as well as criminal, regulatory, and internal investigations. A skilled strategist and advocate, he has a record of achieving successful outcomes for clients facing unusual and intractable problems. He has been inducted into the Lawdragon Hall of Fame. A former managing partner of the firm, he continues to serve on the firm's Executive Committee.
Lawdragon Honors
| Honor | Year | Practice |
|---|---|---|
| The 2027 Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America | 2027 | Commercial Litigation, inc. Antitrust, Insurance |
| The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America | 2026 | Commercial Litigation, inc. Antitrust, Insurance |
| Lawdragon Announces 2025 Hall of Fame Inductees | 2025 | Litigation |
| The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America | 2025 | Commercial Litigation, inc. Antitrust, Insurance |
| The 2024 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America | 2024 | Litigation, esp. Financial, Insurance |
| The 2024 Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America | 2024 | Commercial Litigation, inc. Antitrust, Insurance |
| The 2023 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America | 2023 | Litigation, esp. Financial, Insurance |
| The 2022 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America | 2022 | Litigation, esp. Financial, Insurance |
| Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America | 2022 | Commercial Litigation, inc. Antitrust, Insurance |
| The 2021 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America | 2021 | Litigation, esp. Financial, Insurance |
Vickery has appeared in federal and state courts throughout the country. He has handled nationwide class actions, multijurisdictional proceedings, and parallel civil, criminal, and regulatory actions. He has conducted arbitrations under JAMS, AAA, ICDR, and ARIAS rules, and he has managed litigation in foreign countries.
Vickery started his career as a law clerk to Second Circuit Chief Judge Wilfred Feinberg and then U.S. Supreme Court Justice William H. Rehnquist. He later served for seven years as a criminal prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, ultimately as Chief of Business & Securities Fraud. He tried to jury verdict and argued on appeal complex market manipulation, securities fraud, and mail/wire fraud cases, as well as drug trafficking, money laundering, weapons, and continuing criminal enterprise cases.
Representative clients for whom Vickery has litigated major civil cases include the New York Yankees, YES Network, NASCAR, Zurich Insurance, John Hancock, Lincoln Financial, Voya, and Caithness Energy. He has participated in important cases for Goldman Sachs, Oracle, Continental Airlines, IBM, Polaroid, Avis, Salomon Brothers, the FDIC/RTC, and Westinghouse. He also has advised The New York Times, Intertrust Technologies, Loeb Enterprises, Trizec founder Peter Munk, and German media mogul Leo Kirch.
Vickery also represents corporations and individuals in grand jury investigations and criminal prosecutions, among them numerous unindicted executives and employees of Galleon Group in the S.D.N.Y.’s insider trading cases against Galleon founder Rajat Rajaratnam and former McKinsey chair Rajat Gupta.
Vickery has lectured on white collar crime at Columbia, Yale, and Fordham law schools, the ABA’s White Collar Crime Institute, and St. Gallen University in Switzerland.