Ann Fitz
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Fighting on Behalf of Criminal Defendants in Federal Court since 2004
Ann Fitz has 20 years of experience representing criminal defendants in federal court. She is a former prosecutor, and in addition to her private practice she has served as a federal Panel Attorney under the Criminal Justice Act (CJA) in Atlanta, Los Angeles and, currently, West Palm Beach.
She has handled numerous high-profile white collar crime, Internet-based crime and other criminal cases, including a $25 million loan modification scheme, a $12 million tax fraud scheme, a $7 million Ponzi scheme, constitutional challenges to Florida's and Georgia's sex offender registration laws, and has argued precedential cases in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.
She is admitted to practice in every Federal Court in Florida, and is licensed in numerous states and other federal jurisdictions, including the United States Supreme Court. She has been recognized as a Super Lawyers Rising Star in 2013, 2014 and 2016 and was named a "Top 10 Under 40" criminal lawyer by the National Academy of Criminal Defense Attorneys in 2014. In 2018 she was selected among America's Top 100 Criminal Defense Attorneys. She practices almost exclusively in federal court, focusing on white collar criminal defense and federal criminal appeals.
In addition to her work in the courtroom, Ms. Fitz has provided her insights and opinions as a legal commentator on the Fox News Network, CNN, HLN, MSNBC and appeared as a regular guest on truTV's In Session (formerly CourtTV) from 2009-2011. Her distinctive accomplishments in criminal defense have been featured in numerous nationally well-known publications and media outlets including Rolling Stone Magazine, Wired Magazine, CBS's primetime news magazine 48 Hours Mystery and NBC's Nightly News. She is a chapter author for the Lexis-Nexis Criminal Law Practice Guide and has served as a seminar speaker on the topic of white collar crime.
- White Collar Crime
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Appeals, Drug Crimes, Fraud, Internet Crimes, Sex Crimes, Theft
- Appeals & Appellate
- Federal Appeals
- Free Consultation
- Credit Cards Accepted
- California
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- Florida
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- Georgia
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- New York
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- Ohio
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- South Carolina
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- 4th Circuit
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- 9th Circuit
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- 11th Circuit
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- U.S. Supreme Court
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- Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University
- J.D. (2003)
- Honors: Who�s Who Among American Law Students.
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- Furman University
- B.A. (1999) | English and Communications Double-Major.
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- America's Top 100 Criminal Defense Attorneys
- America's Top 100 Attorneys
- Rising Star
- Super Lawyers
- Rising Star
- Super Lawyers
- Top 10 Under 40
- National Academy of Criminal Defense Attorneys
- Rising Star
- Super Lawyers
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