Kaye Scholer

Mr. Wallance was Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York from 1979 to 1985. As an Assistant United States Attorney, he was a member of the ABSCAM prosecution team, which convicted six United States congressmen and a United States senator, and lead trial prosecutor in the highly publicized United States v. The Southland Corporation, which resulted in the conviction of a major corporation and a former New York City councilman.

Since coming to Kaye Scholer from the United States Attorney's Office, Mr. Wallance has represented numerous individuals and companies in state and federal criminal and regulatory proceedings, in internal investigations, and in implementing corporate compliance programs. Most recently, he has represented companies and individuals in such high profile criminal matters as the UN Oil-for-Food scandal, the KPMG tax shelter investigation, the stock options backdating scandal, and the liquid chemical shipping, DRAM computer chip and LCD (liquid crystal display) international cartel investigations and prosecutions by the DOJ. He served as a member of the Ad Hoc Advisory Group to the US Sentencing Commission on the Organizational Sentencing Guidelines and has testified before the Sentencing Commission and Congress as an expert on corporate governance issues. He is a co-author of the Kaye Scholer LLP Deskbook on Internal Investigations, Corporate Compliance and White Collar Issues (Practising Law Institute 2010/2011).

On the civil side, he recently negotiated a non-class action settlement with several hundred plaintiffs' law firms of 35,000 cases and claims in one of the nation's largest pharmaceutical mass tort litigations and represented a major liquor company in a derivative lawsuit in Delaware Chancery Court arising from a multi-billion dollar transaction. From 1995-2001, Mr. Wallance was Chief Litigation Counsel (while remaining a partner at Kaye Scholer) at Kidder, Peabody & Co. Incorporated. He has tried numerous criminal and civil cases and arbitrations, and argued appeals in multiple state and federal appellate courts.

Mr. Wallance has published more than 100 legal and non-legal articles in, among others, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg.com, Newsweek, Newsday, The Miami Herald, The Baltimore Sun, The New York Daily News, The Village Voice, ABA Journal, The National Law Journal, The American Lawyer, The New York Law Journal, Litigation and The Legal Times. He is the author of the book Papa's Game, which received a non-fiction nomination for an Edgar Allan Poe Award, and the historical novel Two Men Before the Storm: Arba Crane's Recollection of Dred Scott and the Supreme Court Case That Started the Civil War (The Boston Globe: "An evocative historical novel."). He was a producer of the HBO film Sakharov, starring Jason Robards and Glenda Jackson and a co-host of the BBC's The Law Show. He is quoted frequently in major newspapers and has appeared as a legal commentator on CNN, Fox News, Court TV, MSNBC, C-SPAN and NBC's The Today Show. He is listed in Who's Who In America.