Farris Martini is a trial lawyer and former state and federal prosecutor. He counsels individuals and organizations facing white-collar criminal charges, SEC enforcement actions, government and internal investigations, commercial litigation, and other sensitive matters.

Farris joins Cotsirilos, Poulos & Campbell after seven years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, where he led grand jury investigations into financial and securities fraud, cybercrime, healthcare fraud, money laundering, tax offenses, bankruptcy fraud, public corruption, and other federal crimes.

While at the Department of Justice, Farris joined an FBI Cyber Task Force and was designated as a Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property (CHIP) coordinator. He worked with other DOJ components, foreign partners, and multilateral institutions to pursue ransomware gangs and affiliates, initial access brokers, botnets, and other cybercriminal organizations worldwide. He regularly counseled DOJ colleagues on electronic evidence, including the Stored Communications Act, digital forensics, and cellular networks. Farris was part of an international team that successfully disrupted one of the world’s most prolific online criminal marketplaces.

Farris handled federal prosecutions from start to finish. He advised on charging strategy, presented testimony and indictments to grand juries, litigated pretrial motions, negotiated plea agreements, tried cases to verdict, and argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Before becoming a federal prosecutor, Farris served as a Deputy Attorney General for the State of Delaware, where he prosecuted state criminal cases from charging through sentencing and tried more than ten cases to verdict.

Earlier in his career, Farris clerked for the Honorable Leonard P. Stark at the United States District Court for the District of Delaware and the Honorable John R. Jolly, Jr., of the North Carolina Business Court. In between clerkships, he practiced at a large law firm, representing a healthcare system and other individual and institutional clients in complex disputes.