Our Firm

Who We Are

Oberheiden P.C. is a federal defense, litigation, and compliance law firm. Occasionally in connection with carefully selected but fully independent local counsel and consultants located across the United States, our firm represents individual and corporate clients in federal trials, federal investigations, federal law cases, multi-state audits and investigations, federal jurisdiction, federal litigation matters, and international law. This collaboration allows the Firm’s clients to benefit from the added experience of former DOJ officials, former federal prosecutors, former FBI agents, and former Department of Justice trial lawyers who collectively have centuries of combined experience on both sides of federal investigations, trials, and appeals.

About Our Founder

Dr. Nick Oberheiden has earned a nationwide reputation for providing effective advocacy and representation in a broad range of federal compliance and defense matters. Forbes Magazine, Bloomberg, Fox News, CNBC, NBC, the Los Angeles Times, Telemundo, the New York Post, the Miami Herald, the Dallas Morning News, the International Business Times and other media outlets, including national TV, radio, and international newspapers have featured Nick Oberheiden in hundreds of interviews. He has defended clients in investigations involving almost every federal agency including but not limited to the DOJ, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Office of Inspector General (OIG), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the State Department, the Department of Defense, the FAA, the Department of Homeland Security, the IRS, and U.S. Attorney’s Offices across the country.

Meet Dr. Oberheiden, Founding Attorney.

Our National Network of Lawyers and Consultants

One of the benefits of working with Oberheiden P.C. is the firm’s extensive network of former federal agents, experts, and affiliated local counsel. Spread throughout the United States, these non-members of the firm include individuals well familiar with high-stake prosecutions, federal trials, litigation tactics, and expert consulting. Among them are former prosecutors appointed by the President (Trump, Obama) and confirmed by the U.S. Senate, former DOJ trial attorneys, former federal prosecutors, former FBI Supervisory Special Agents, former DEA Supervisory Special Agents, former HHS-OIG agents, the former Special Agent-in-Charge of the DEA Chicago, the former Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge of the HHS-OIG in Los Angeles, former officials from the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU), and Special Agents from the IRS and DOJ-OIG, former DEA Diversion Investigators, and others.

Our Attorneys speak more than 10 Languages:

• English
• Arabic
• Chinese
• French
• German
• Portuguese
• Spanish
• Vietnamese
• Korean
• Urdu
• Tagalog
• Hausa

Meet Our Network.

Who We Represent

We represent a diverse clientele of licensed professionals, public figures, business owners, managers and executives, board members, entrepreneurs, and corporate entities. Many of our clients are high-profile individuals and individuals who are well-known and highly-respected in their local and professional communities, and our business clients range from local retailers to large corporate organizations. We serve clients in industries and fields including:

• Healthcare
• Multi-National Corporations
• Finance
• Small-Medium Businesses
• Politics
• Governments

Within our federal defense practice, we represent clients facing civil and criminal investigations and charges under all pertinent federal statutes. This includes statutes pertaining to antitrust, compliance, corruption and bribery, drug crimes, intellectual property and identity theft, whistleblower claims, and various forms of fraud.

By the Numbers

Over the course of our firm’s existence and our attorneys’ and Local Counsels’ past careers as federal defense attorneys and prosecutors, we have amassed a substantial track record of success. At Oberheiden, P.C., our and our Local Counsels’ experience includes:

• Amassing more than 70 years of prior experience as DOJ prosecutors
• Representing clients in more than 1,000 federal grand jury proceedings
• Obtaining favorable results for clients in more than 40 states around the country
• Defending clients in more than 500 criminal trials
• Representing clients in more than 2,000 federal civil and criminal cases
• Defending 100 percent of False Claims Act investigations with the outcome of no civil or criminal liability for our client

If you are facing an audit or a federal investigation, if you have received a target letter or grand jury subpoena, or if you are waiting to stand trial in federal district court on civil or criminal charges, our federal defense lawyers can help you. Please schedule a free initial case assessment to learn more.

NOTICE

Firm’s lawyers are admitted to practice in Texas (Elizabeth Stepp, Lynette Byrd, Pascual Meyer, Ellen Comley), New York (Elizabeth Stepp, Nick Oberheiden), Washington D.C. (Nick Oberheiden) as well as admitted before the U.S. Supreme Court (Nick Oberheiden), the U.S. Court of Appeals for Second Circuit (Nick Oberheiden), Fifth Circuit (Elizabeth Stepp, Nick Oberheiden), Sixth Circuit (Elizabeth Stepp, Nick Oberheiden), Ninth Circuit (Nick Oberheiden), Eleventh Circuit (Nick Oberheiden), as well as before the following U.S. District Courts: Arkansas (East and West, Nick Oberheiden), Colorado (Elizabeth Stepp, Nick Oberheiden), Illinois (North, Central, South, Nick Oberheiden), Indiana (North and South, Elizabeth Stepp, Nick Oberheiden), Michigan (East, Elizabeth Stepp, Nick Oberheiden), Missouri (East, Nick Oberheiden), Nebraska (Nick Oberheiden), New Mexico (Nick Oberheiden), New York (South, East, West, Nick Oberheiden), North Dakota (Nick Oberheiden), Oklahoma (North, East, West Elizabeth Stepp, Nick Oberheiden), Texas (North, East, West, South Elizabeth Stepp, Nick Oberheiden). Firm’s lawyers are not admitted and do not have physical presence in and do not have or maintain an office and do not seek to hold themselves out to be admitted and do not seek continuous or permanent or systematic representations in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Guam, Puerto Rico, or any non-U.S. jurisdiction including not admitted to practice in France.