Biography
Julian is a Partner in the Investigations and Litigation Group at A&O Shearman where he represents companies, officers, directors, and executives in white collar criminal cases, anti-corruption and internal investigations, compliance matters, and sensitive internal reviews involving culture and conduct issues related to race, sex, gender, sexuality, and religion.
Throughout his legal career he has served in both public and private practice, including serving as Deputy Attorney General for New York State, Deputy Chief of Investigations for the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, and Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) where he was a member of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Unit. At the SDNY, he was a lead prosecutor in the investigation of the Bernard L. Madoff Ponzi Scheme and a special appointee to the Mortgage Fraud Strike Force.
He is currently Chair Emeritus of the Board of Directors of The Trevor Project. Founded in 1998 by the creators of the Academy Award®-winning short film TREVOR, The Trevor Project is the leading organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) young people under 25.
He served as a law clerk to the Hon. Kim McLane Wardlaw of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He graduated with honors from Harvard College and received his law degree with honors from Columbia Law School, where he was the Executive Managing Editor of the Columbia Law Review.
Julian is a lifelong member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization, and has been honored numerous times throughout the years by the entity. He is a member of the American Constitution Society (Founding Member, Columbia Law School, 2001), American Bar Association, New York City Bar Association (Committee on White-Collar Crime, 2020-2024, Committee on Government Ethics, 2008-2010), and National Bar Association / Metropolitan Black Bar Association.