Fredrick Carl Crombie

Fred Crombie is a trial attorney who has litigated matters in both federal and state courts. Fred’s practice focuses on complex civil litigation with an emphasis on tax controversy, government investigations, securities class actions, and shareholder derivative suits. He has also successfully argued cases before the Fourth and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals.

Before he joined the firm, Fred was a Trial Attorney in the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where, as first chair, he litigated a variety of tax controversies involving a wide range of plaintiffs, including wealthy individuals, consolidated filing groups, insolvent financial institutions, telecommunications carriers and resellers, payroll processing companies, foreign service corporations, and nonresident aliens. The Department of Justice awarded Fred with three Outstanding Trial Attorney Awards and designated him as an E-Discovery Section Representative for the Court of Federal Claims Trial Section. Fred was also a litigation associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP where he defended technology companies in securities class actions, shareholder derivative suits, commercial and financial litigation, and copyright and trademark disputes.