Chief Legal Officer, Mintz Group
Patricia Astorga is Chief Legal Officer of Mintz Group. Ms. Astorga manages Mintz Group’s legal, compliance, and risk management functions and oversees its legal team. She also plays a critical role in the firm’s growth strategy.
Ms. Astorga joined Mintz Group from the U.S. Department of Justice, where she most recently served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey. As a federal prosecutor, Ms. Astorga led several jury trials to conviction and conducted investigations and prosecutions of the Anti-Kickback Statute; health care fraud; misconduct by drug manufacturers, pharmacies, physicians and medical practitioners; organized crime; narcotics conspiracies and distribution; domestic and international money laundering; federal firearms offenses; human trafficking; and child sex exploitation crimes.
Ms. Astorga was a litigator at two international law firms, Milbank, and Weil, where she represented corporate clients in all aspects of litigation and across jurisdictions and industries, including financial services, banking, transportation, insurance, private equity, manufacturing, real estate, and media & entertainment.
Ms. Astorga is admitted to practice in the State of New York, the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the U.S. Supreme Court. She served as a law clerk for the Honorable George B. Daniels in the Southern District of New York.
Ms. Astorga earned her Juris Doctor from Cornell Law School, and her Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from New York University. Patricia is a member of the Federal Bar Council Inn of Court and has served in various leadership roles in the American Bar Association Section of Litigation.