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Serrin Turner is a partner in the New York office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the firm’s Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Practice, White Collar Defense & Government Investigations Practice, and Complex Commercial Litigation Practice.
A former federal prosecutor and experienced trial lawyer, Mr. Turner leverages his unique experience investigating complex cybercrime cases to represent clients in their most critical cybersecurity matters. He counsels corporations, financial institutions and asset managers concerning all aspects of cybersecurity preparedness and incident response, including:
Prior to joining Latham, Mr. Turner served for six years as an Assistant US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where he was the Office’s lead cybercrime prosecutor. In that role, Mr. Turner handled a wide range of cybercrime investigations and prosecutions, including matters involving computer hacking, data breaches, black-market websites, trafficking in stolen payment card and personal identity information, and money laundering through digital currencies.
Among other notable cases, Mr. Turner led the prosecution of the operator of the Silk Road website, a vast online black market for illegal drugs and other contraband, as well as a multi-billion-dollar money-laundering case against the Liberty Reserve digital currency service, which functioned as an underground bank for cybercriminals across the globe. Mr. Turner also handled high-profile data-privacy litigation at the US Attorney’s Office, including a leading email provider’s challenge to a search warrant for data stored overseas.
Prior to joining the Criminal Division of the US Attorney’s Office, Mr. Turner held a number of other positions within the federal government, including serving as Counsel to the Executive Director for the Guantanamo Review Task Force in Washington, DC, where he helped lead a special task force created by President Obama to review detainees’ intelligence files and determine case dispositions. Previously, from 2005 to 2009, Mr. Turner was an Assistant US Attorney in the Civil Division of the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where he focused on matters involving national-security and foreign-relations issues. From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Turner was a Trial Attorney in the US Department of Justice’s Honors Program.
Mr. Turner served as law clerk for the Honorable Sandra Lynch, US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, from 2000 to 2001. He is a two-time recipient of the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service, the Justice Department’s second-highest award, and received the 2004 John Marshall Award for Trial of Litigation, the Justice Department's highest award for trial litigators.
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