Attorneys
Julie Prag Vianale
Julie Vianale
Julie Vianale has been practicing law for 18 years and has concentrated almost exclusively on defending individuals in state and federal criminal proceedings. She is licensed to practice law in Florida and New York.
Ms. Vianale is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Maryland at College Park. She received her law degree in 1984 from the University of Virginia School of Law.
She served as law clerk to the Honorable Anthony A. Alaimo, United States District Judge for the Southern District of Georgia. From 1985 to 1989, she was associated with the New York City law firm of Botein Hays & Sklar where she concentrated on white-collar criminal defense.
In 1989, Ms. Vianale became a trial attorney with the Federal Public Defender’s Office in Manhattan. During her eight years as a trial attorney in that office, she gained extensive experience in all phases of federal criminal defense, including bail hearings, motions, trials and sentencings. Ms. Vianale has substantial experience in the application of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines and has handled hundreds of federal sentences under the Guidelines.
Ms. Vianale is admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the Southern District of Florida, the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the District of Connecticut, and in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys, the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys, the Federal Bar Association, and the Palm Beach County Bar Association. Ms. Vianale serves on the South Palm Beach County bar’s Criminal Practice Committee. She has also completed training at the National Criminal Defense College and has served as a trial advocacy instructor in seminars sponsored by the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.
Kenneth Vianale
Kenneth Vianale
Kenneth Vianale has been actively litigating securities cases for most of his legal career. After graduating law school, Mr. Vianale served as a law clerk to Judge Lloyd F. MacMahon in the U.S. Courthouse in the Southern District of New York (1985-1986), and worked at a large Wall Street firm that focused on tender offer litigation.
Mr. Vianale later served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1988 to 1995 where he worked extensively in the Securities Fraud Unit and held the executive position of Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division (1995). In 1992, Mr. Vianale prosecuted U.S. v. Ostrander, in which the defendant, a former Fidelity portfolio manager, was convicted of accepting unlawful compensation from Michael Milken.
In 1993, Mr. Vianale was lead counsel for the Government in its prosecution of Prudential Securities arising out of that firm’s marketing and sale of failed oil and gas limited partnerships sold to thousands of investors.
From 1995 to the present, Mr. Vianale has been prosecuting class actions and derivative shareholder suits on behalf of investors and public pension funds against corporations and their officers and directors accused of fraud and insider trading. Mr. Vianale has handled numerous securities cases at the trial court and appellate court level.
Mr. Vianale received his B.A. from St. Francis College in 1979 and his law degree from St. John’s Law School in 1984, where he was an editor of the law review. Mr. Vianale has served as a Trial advocacy Instructor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, and is a member of the bars of New York and Florida, the United States District Courts for the Southern, Eastern and Northern District of New York, the District of Connecticut, the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida, the Courts of Appeal for the First, Second, Third, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eleventh Circuits, and the Supreme Court of the United States.