Robert L. Peabody is Of Counsel in the New York City, New York, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. He was a highly successful criminal defense attorney in Massachusetts, where he is a well-known son of a former governor.
After seven years as a state prosecutor and eight years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Mr. Peabody turned to criminal defense work in Massachusetts, focusing on white collar matters involving corporate clients and individuals facing regulatory action and litigation on the state and federal levels. Over nine years, he built extensive experience in securities, health care, tax, and bank fraud matters. He has represented pharmaceutical and other health care professionals in investigations of illegal anti-kickbacks, off-label marketing, Medicare and Medicaid fraud. In addition, he has defended finance executives in options backdating, insider trading, accounting, and related tax and securities fraud allegations as well as companies and individuals in state and federal investigations alleging campaign finance, bribery, and conflict of interest violations. Mr. Peabody has had particular success at representing college and graduate students throughout the country in internal probes of plagiarism, cheating, assault, and other violations of honor codes and other academic violations.
