Paul Lewis Shechtman is a George W. Crawford Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. He also teaches "Criminal Adjudication" at Columbia University Law School. With more than 30 years of experience, Shechtman represented clients in federal and state criminal and regulatory matters. His work spanned antitrust law, health care fraud, insider trading, political corruption, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Prior to private practice, Shechtman served as the chief of the criminal division at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and as the director of criminal justice under former New York Governor George Pataki.
