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Miranda Kane has over 15 years experience as a criminal attorney: both as defense counsel and as a prosecutor. She has tried securities fraud, identity crimes, wire fraud schemes, homicides, robberies, and child exploitation cases to jury in state and federal courts. Ms. Kane also has extensive experience before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and has represented individuals before the California State Bar Court.
As the co-chief of the White Collar Criminal Defense Practice Group at Rogers Joseph O’Donnell & Phillips, Ms. Kane represented individuals and corporations under investigation by federal law enforcement agencies including: the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Transportation, Internal Revenue Service, Department of Justice, Antitrust Division and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Ms. Kane also represented an individual on trial before the California State Bar. Miranda was invited to join the Northern District of California Criminal Justice Act Panel in September 2004 and she continues to represent indigent defendants in federal district court.
Ms. Kane began her legal career as a Deputy District Attorney in Los Angeles County where she tried over 65 felony and misdemeanor matters to downtown juries. While at the District Attorney’s Office, Ms. Kane also served as the Deputy Chief of the Los Padrinos Juvenile Court office where her primary responsibilities were making charging decisions, assigning high-profile cases and overseeing all stages of proceedings before the juvenile court.
Ms. Kane continued to try more complex cases at the San Francisco United States Attorney’s Office. At the end of her eight-year tenure, Ms. Kane managed the White Collar Crimes group, which included nine Assistant United States Attorneys, two paralegals and a financial analyst. Ms. Kane was responsible for intake, assignments and staffing, charging decisions and case resolution in the areas of mail, wire, bank and bankruptcy frauds as well as child exploitation, civil rights, public corruption and environmental crimes. Ms. Kane was also a member of the original Securities Fraud Group created under Robert Mueller, III. During her years at the United States Attorney’s Office, Ms. Kane received awards from the Postal Inspection Service and the Internal Revenue Service for her exceptional trial work on challenging cases for those agencies.
Ms. Kane is a two time Golden Bear. She received a degree in English at the University of California; Berkeley where she graduated with High Honors and was named Phi Beta Kappa. Ms. Kane also earned her law degree from Boalt Hall. In law school Ms. Kane was an Associate Editor on the California Law Review. She also was the President of the Berkeley Law Foundation (BLF); an organization dedicated to providing students and graduates with opportunities in public interest law both during and after law school. Ms. Kane received a BLF summer grant after her first year of law school.
Throughout her career Ms. Kane has taught and lectured on the subjects of Criminal Procedure, Sarbanes-Oxley, the Patriot Act, Parallel Criminal and Civil Proceedings, and Negotiating Substantial Assistance Plea Agreements with the prosecution. Ms. Kane also lead numerous in-house trainings on a range of subjects including ethics, charging practices and grand jury presentation.
Ms. Kane volunteers as an in-school tutor at 826 Valencia, a non-profit program focused on providing writing and publishing opportunities for students in San Francisco public schools. Ms. Kane has also been an active participant and organizer of fundraising events for her children’s schools.
