Marcos Daniel Jiménez (Marc) is a partner in McDermott Will & Emery LLP’s Miami and New York offices. He concentrates his practice on high-profile and complex litigation, internal investigations and white-collar criminal defense.
During 2002-05, Marc served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, directing the 230-lawyer office and supervising nationally significant investigations and prosecutions involving white-collar crime, national security and terrorism, money laundering and narcotics trafficking, as well as a sweeping array of other matters. During his tenure, Marc was appointed to serve on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee of U.S. Attorneys and headed the nation’s largest Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force. Earlier in his career, Marc served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney from 1989-92, successfully first-chairing criminal trials and arguing appeals in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
In addition to his service as U.S. Attorney, Marc has significant experience in high-stakes matters. He was a member of President Bush’s legal team in the Bush v. Gore cases in 2000. Marc played a key role in the constitutional challenge to the government’s detention of refugees in Guantanamo during the 1994 Cuban rafter crisis, Cuban American Bar Association v. Christopher, 43 F.3d 1412 (11th Cir. 1995), for which he was featured in The American Lawyer and accepted the Florida Supreme Court’s Pro Bono Association Award on behalf of the refugees’ lawyers.
Marc’s advocacy skills are recognized in numerous publications, including Best Lawyers in America and Chambers USA (noted as a “compelling presence in the courtroom,” “brilliant, extraordinarily well prepared and incredibly polished”). Marc was profiled in The National Law Journal’s 2011 “Winning” issue and selected by the Daily Business Review as South Florida’s “Most Effective Lawyer” in the Complex Business/Civil Litigation category in 2011.
Marc is an active community and bar leader. He has chaired the Florida Bar’s Attorney-Client Privilege Task Force, as well as Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal Judicial Nominating Commission, and served on the Board of Trustees of Baptist Health Systems, South Florida’s largest health care organization. He is currently a member of an ABA dialogue group that regularly meets with the U.S. Attorney General and his staff.
Born in Havana, Cuba, Marc is fluent in Spanish. He graduated third in his class from the University of Miami School of Law, was an associate editor of the University of Miami Law Review, and is a member of Iron Arrow, the University’s highest honor.
