Bio

Mark, a board-certified specialist in both federal and state criminal law, heads the firm’s White Collar and Business Crimes, General Federal Defense, and Government Investigations section. Before joining Bell, Davis & Pitt in 2011, Mark served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Western District of North Carolina, where he represented the government in hundreds of federal criminal investigations and prosecutions. Mark also heads the firm’s federal and state general criminal defense section. This practice provides zealous defense against all federal criminal charges, including drug trafficking conspiracies, firearms offenses, counterfeiting, aggravated identity theft, and racketeering (RICO) conspiracies. Mark is admitted in each of the North Carolina's three federal districts, and he provides representation pre-indictment, at trial, and on appeal. Mark also represents whistleblowers (individuals who are personally aware of a fraud being perpetrated against the federal or state government) interested in pursuing a qui tam suit and/or claims under the False Claims Acts. Mark received his law degree with honors, from the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. While there, Mark was an editor of the Georgetown Law Journal, a senior-primary editor of the Georgetown Law Journal's Annual Review of Criminal Procedure (ARCP), and he worked for CQPress, covering the United States Supreme Court.