Jonathan L. Marks

Jonathan L. Marks concentrates his practice in the areas of business litigation, anti-fraud counseling and litigation and white collar criminal and civil litigation.

Before joining the Firm, Mr. Marks served five and one-half years in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Indiana. As an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Mr. Marks handled a wide range of matters including public corruption, tax evasion, RICO, money laundering, bank fraud, insurance fraud, and embezzlement of employee pension and benefit funds. He tried numerous federal jury trials and handled and argued numerous appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals. From 2002 to 2003, he headed the Northwest Indiana Public Corruption Task Force, an interagency group targeting public corruption in Indiana, and successfully prosecuted a number of prominent public officials. In October 2002, Mr. Marks received the Director’s Award for Superior Performance as an Assistant U.S. attorney.

Mr. Marks began his legal career as a federal appellate court clerk for Judge Collins Seitz of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and then joined Mayer, Brown & Platt in Chicago, where he acquired significant experience in civil litigation representing major corporations, commercial banks and other business entities and individuals in civil litigation in federal and state courts. He left Mayer, Brown to join the U.S. Attorney’s office.

Mr. Marks graduated magna cum laude from Yale University in 1986. In 1989, he received his Juris Doctor magna cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was Articles Editor of the Michigan Law Review, and, following graduation, a member of the Order of the Coif. Mr. Marks is a member of the bars of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third and Seventh Circuits, and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern District of Illinois, Southern District of Illinois, Northern District of Indiana, Eastern District of Wisconsin and Eastern District of Michigan.