Mr. Crowe engages in commercial litigation in both state and federal courts, advises clients regarding internal investigations and compliance, and defends white collar criminal cases. Before joining the firm in June, 2009, Mr. Crowe served for five years as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, where he prosecuted narcotics and firearms-related offenses, as well as counterfeiting and fraud cases.
Within a year of becoming a federal prosecutor, Mr. Crowe received a Certificate of Commendation from the United States Attorney for outstanding performance. Mr. Crowe was first-chair trial counsel for the Government in several felony jury trials. In addition, he achieved successful outcomes for the Government in each of a dozen appeals he briefed and argued before the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Ten of those decisions are reported. As a federal prosecutor, Mr. Crowe was very active as a liaison with other members of law enforcement, by coordinating task force meetings with federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, and by providing training on search and seizure, interview techniques, and narcotics interdiction.
Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Mr. Crowe began the practice of law as an associate at Bryan Cave, LLP, where he was a member of the Commercial Litigation and White Collar Defense groups. At Bryan Cave, Mr. Crowe engaged in motion practice and discovery in civil litigation matters involving products and premises liability, as well as contract, partnership, condemnation, and trust disputes. Mr. Crowe assisted with the litigation and trial of partnership, contract, condemnation and trust matters. He also conducted and defended discovery and trial depositions, engaged in motions practice, and drafted numerous briefs on dispositive, discovery, and evidentiary issues, as well as appellate briefs.
While in law school, Mr. Crowe was a Managing Editor of the Saint Louis University Public Law Review. Mr. Crowe’s article in that publication was honored as the best student note of 1999. He was a member of his law school’s Phillip C. Jessup International Moot Court team for two years, and served as the captain of that team when he was a third year student. Mr. Crowe was also inducted into Alpha Sigma Nu, the Jesuit Honor Society for Scholarship, Loyalty and Service. Mr. Crowe was honored by Saint Louis University’s Office of Student Development with an Outstanding Contribution scholarship. Mr. Crowe was the sole student representative on the committee that selected the current dean of Saint Louis University’s School of Law. As a third year law student, Mr. Crowe served as an intern with the Circuit Attorney’s Office, which is the state prosecutor’s office for the City of St. Louis and as a judicial intern to the Honorable William D. Stiehl of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois.
Upon completing his undergraduate degree, Mr. Crowe deferred his admission to law school in order to perform a year of service at the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project in Seattle, Washington, where he served as a paralegal as part of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps Program. Mr. Crowe continued his immigration legal services work during the summer following his first year of law school, when he received a fellowship through the Public Interest Law Initiative (“PILI”) to work at the Midwest Immigrant Rights Center in Chicago, Illinois. As a law student, Mr. Crowe led a group of undergraduate students to perform a week of volunteer work with immigrants and refugees in the Brownsville, Texas area. While in private practice, he led another group of undergraduates to perform a week of service work in Cuatrocienagas, Mexico in 2003.
Mr. Crowe remains active in the community. Mr. Crowe serves on the Board of Directors of the Notre Dame Club of St. Louis. He serves on the Alumni Council of Saint Louis University’s School of Law. He has served on a search committee for associate decanal position and has regularly served as a moot court judge and career panelist at Saint Louis University School of Law. As a member of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, he served as a judge for the Mock Trial program and in 2002, was the keynote speaker for that organization’s Mock Trial banquet. He volunteered with the Metropolitan St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Parade Run for over ten years. Since 1998, Mr. Crowe has assisted people of low-income with preparing their income tax returns by volunteering with the St. Louis Tax Assistance Program. He joined that program during its second year and in the over ten years he has volunteered since then, has served as an assistant site director and tax return reviewer at sites that provide assistance to the working poor of the St. Louis Metropolitan area, including Spanish-speaking immigrants and refugees.
Fluent in Spanish, Mr. Crowe studied in Spain for an academic year while an undergraduate and later earned the Diploma of Spanish as a Foreign Language, (DELE), Superior level, which is conferred on written and oral examination by the Ministry of Education and Culture of Spain.
The St. Louis Business Journal named Mr. Crowe as one of the city’s most outstanding young professionals in its annual “30 Under 30” publication for 2003.
Mr. Crowe is married and has a three-year-old son.