Garth Hire is one of the most experienced former federal prosecutors in the country and a member of the firm’s White-Collar Criminal Defense, Corporate Investigations and Regulatory Compliance Group. During his nearly 24-year career as an Assistant United States Attorney, Garth investigated and prosecuted individuals and organizations for virtually every type of federal crime ranging from securities fraud to murder.

Garth began his career as a litigation associate at two of the world’s largest law firms before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles. While there, Garth served in the counter-terrorism section following 9/11 and later focused on violent and organized crime; earning the Justice Department’s prestigious Director’s Award for his work before transferring to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Francisco.

As a federal prosecutor in Northern California, Garth headed the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Section and was Chief of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Oakland, California, before finishing his Justice Department career as a member of the elite Corporate and Securities Fraud Section. Garth is both an experienced trial and appellate lawyer; and has tried numerous cases to jury verdict as lead trial counsel and argued several appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Garth now leverages his decades of investigative and prosecutorial experience and deep knowledge of the people and processes at federal and state regulators to guide and defend executives and enterprises as they navigate an increasingly complicated and unpredictable regulatory and enforcement landscape in areas such as securities fraud, insider trading, tariff evasion, health care fraud, public and private corruption, commercial trade secret theft, economic espionage, money laundering, human trafficking, and foreign corrupt practices. Garth is a member of the White-Collar Criminal Defense, Corporate Investigations and Regulatory Compliance Group in the firm’s San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, and San Diego offices.