Michael Attanasio

Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

4401 Eastgate Mall

San Diego, CA 92121

(858) 550-6020

mattanasio@cooley.com

Education Law School/Year: Stanford University, 1990 College/Year: Princeton University, 1987 Bar Admissions California; various district courts; D.C., 5th, 6th and 9th Circuits Practice Areas Business Litigation, Criminal Law Major Cases Attanasio is the lead trial counsel for a former Arthur Andersen partner charged by the U.S. Attorney’s Office with securities, wire and bank fraud in connection with the financial reporting of Peregrine Systems Inc., a San Diego-based software provider. The trial began in April 2007. Attanasio was also lead trial counsel for the largest roofing company in Southern California and one of its co-owners in a major workers’ compensation fraud investigation by the District Attorney’s Office. The case was resolved with the payment of restitution by the owners and no incarceration for any of the 11 defendants. He has successfully represented clients in sensitive law enforcement investigations, including the pending investigation by former Sen. George Mitchell into the alleged use of performance enhancing substances in Major League Baseball. Professional background After graduating from law school, Attanasio was a law clerk to the Hon. Rudi M. Brewster from 1990 through 1991. He then joined the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., after being hired though the Attorney General’s Honors Program. Attanasio was assigned to the Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Section, a special unit that prosecutes sensitive white-collar cases in districts around the country. He tried cases to federal juries in the Southern District of New York, the Western District of Kentucky, the Northern District of Ohio, the Southern District of Texas and the District of Columbia. In 2004 Attanasio joined Cooley Godward Kronish, where he practices white-collar criminal defense and complex business litigation. Professional Affiliations Adjunct Professor, University of San Diego Law School, White Collar and Corporate Crime; Master, Welsh Inn of Court; Board Member, San Diego Volunteer Lawyers Program; Lawyers Representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference (2004-06); selected by “The Best Lawyers in America” (2006, 2007), White Collar Criminal Defense; selected by the Los Angeles Daily Journal as one of the “Top 20 Lawyers under 40” (2004); Member: ABA, Federal Bar Association, Association of Business Trial Lawyers Personal Affiliations Husband of Susan Lennon and proud father of boys Nick, 5, and Max, 3.