David V. Capes Named 2013 Best Lawyers in America “Lawyer of the Year”

David V. Capes, a founding shareholder in Capes, Sokol, Goodman & Sarachan, PC, was recently named the Best Lawyers’ 2013 St. Louis Criminal Defense:  White-Collar “Lawyer of the Year.”  Only a single lawyer in each
specialty in each community is honored as “Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers (Copyright 2012 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, SC).

Capes concentrates his practice in Criminal Defense
Tax & White Collar, Federal & State Tax Matters & Appeals, and Federal & State Civil & Commercial Litigation.  He is recognized for his expertise in resolving federal criminal and civil tax law controversies, whether through
negotiation or litigation

A skilled trial attorney with in-depth knowledge of
taxation, Capes represents and defends individuals and corporations in tax and other white collar crime cases. He was admitted to the Arkansas Bar in 1971 and the Missouri Bar in 1980, when he entered private practice. He also is licensed to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as the federal courts of Missouri and Arkansas.

Capes offers clients insights in tax and criminal matters gained through substantial experience in both the public and private sectors. From 1971 to 1974, he served as legislative assistant to the Honorable J.W. Fulbright,
U.S. Senator from Arkansas. From 1974 to 1975, he served as Attorney-Advisor to the Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs, U.S. Department of Justice. He was then appointed as a federal prosecutor and trial attorney, first with the Criminal Section, Tax Division, U.S. Department of Justice (1975-78), and later as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri (1978-80). In those roles, he focused his practice on federal tax and other white collar crime prosecution, as well as mail and wire fraud, conspiracy, securities, bank fraud and other federal regulatory violation cases.

Capes has been an adjunct professor of law at Washington University School of Law for nearly 30 years, teaching tax fraud prosecutions in the graduate tax program. He has an LL.M. in Taxation from Georgetown University (1976), a J.D. from the University of Arkansas School of Law (1971)
and a B.A. in History and Political Science from Rhodes College (1968).

Capes has served on the Board of Directors of the
Washington University Hillel Foundation, The Jewish Center for the Aged (President, JCA Associates), Congregation Temple Israel (Treasurer), Westwood Country Club (President) and The Anti-Defamation League.

He is an avid photographer and collector of photography and is currently teaching a photography class at Fanning Middle School in St. Louis City as part of the enrichment program being administered by UrbanFUTURE.

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 36,000 leading attorneys cast almost 4.4 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”

Capes, Sokol, Goodman + Sarachan, P.C. in Clayton, Missouri is a firm of seasoned attorneys, committed to achieving business and individual client objectives in the most effective and efficient manner possible. When resolution requires litigation or the skills of an innovative transactional attorney, this group of attorneys has a long and distinguished record of success. Drawing upon diverse backgrounds, the firm offers a wide range of services in the areas of commercial litigation and transactions, complex divorce and family law, substantial tax disputes, white-collar criminal defense, lending, real estate, catastrophic personal injury, mediation, class action, and federal and state appellate cases.  www.capessokol.com