2018 Cedrone & Mancano, LLC is pleased to announce that founding partner Joseph D. Mancano recently presented at the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers’ 8th Annual West Coast White Collar Conference in Santa Monica, California. Mr. Mancano moderated a panel presentation entitled “Defending Health Care Defendants – Fighting the Multi-Front War.” The presentation dealt with health care fraud enforcement priorities under the current federal administration and emerging trends in healthcare enforcement under federal and state law, both criminal and civil.

Mr. Mancano focuses his practice on both civil and criminal litigation in federal and state courts throughout the United States. He is an accomplished trial lawyer, having tried over 100 cases to verdict. Mr. Mancano also handles federal and state appeals, and routinely represents clients in regulatory enforcement proceedings. Since 2014, Mr. Mancano has served as a court-appointed Discovery and Settlement Master for civil cases filed in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, Commerce Court.

Following graduation from Temple University School of Law in 1979, Mr. Mancano joined the U.S. Department of Justice under its Honors Program. He served as Trial Attorney in the Philadelphia Field Office of the Antitrust Division from 1979-1982. From 1982-1985, Mr. Mancano was a Trial Attorney in the Philadelphia Strike Force Office of the Justice Department’s Organized Crime and Racketeering Section. Mr. Mancano continued his government career in 1985 when he was appointed as an Assistant United States Attorney in the St. Louis, Missouri office of the President’s Drug Enforcement Task Force. Prior to founding Cedrone & Mancano, LLC, Mr. Mancano was chairman of the White-Collar Criminal Defense practice at a 70-lawyer, multi-state firm.

A prolific speaker at law schools, business schools, the FBI Training Academy, and to bar association groups, health care providers, and accounting societies, Mr. Mancano was selected by his peers for the 2013-2018 editions of Best Lawyers in Americafor: Criminal Defense: White Collar. Mr. Mancano serves on the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers White Collar Crime Committee. He is past President of the St. Thomas More Society, an organization devoted to promoting the highest ethical standards in the legal profession. In addition, he serves as a Trustee of St. Joseph’s Preparatory School, a Jesuit high school in Philadelphia, and was on the Board of Governors of the Civil War Museum of Philadelphia.

Cedrone & Mancano, LLC is one of Pennsylvania’s preeminent litigation boutiques dedicated to representing clients in criminal, civil, and administrative controversies. The firm’s broad-based practice encompasses four core areas: sophisticated criminal defense; tax litigation and controversy; complex commercial litigation; and regulatory enforcement. For more information, please see: cedrone-mancano.com.