Background
Munroe, Kirk W. was born on February 7, 1949 in Miami, Florida, United States.
Munroe, Kirk W. was born on February 7, 1949 in Miami, Florida, United States.
Allegheny College; University of Florida (Bachelor of Arts, 1970). Boston University (Juris Doctor, 1973).
Worked at Richey & Diaz, P.A. (Miami, Florida) specializing in Civil and Criminal Trial Practice in all State and Federal Courts. Appeals.
Admitted to the bar, 1973, Florida. United States. District Court, Southern, Northern and Middle Districts of Florida, Eastern District of Michigan.
Eastern District of Texas, Eastern District of Wisconsin. District of Connecticut. United States. Court of Appeals, Third, Fifth and Eleventh Circuits.
United States. Supreme Court. 1996, Ontario, Canada. Author: "Surviving the Solution: The Extraterritorial Reach of the United States," 14 Dickinson Journal of International Law 505, 1996.
"Money Laundering: The Latest Darling of the Prosecutor's Nursery," I Money Laundering, Asset Forfeiture and International Financial Crimes, 1994. "Money Laundering: Problems for International Private Banking," 9 Rev. of Banking & Financial Services 9, 1993. "Commercial Eavesdropping: A Catch 22," Florida Bar Journal, March, 1989.
"Consensual Electronic Surveillance and the Explosive Impact of Sarmiento," Florida Bar Journal, April, 1982. Assistant State Attorney, Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, 1973-1978. Chief Assistant, Organized Crime and Public Corruption Unit, 1977-1978.
Sessional Instructor, Faculty of Law, University of Windsor. Member: and American (Member, White Collar Crime Subcommittee on Money Laundering, 1989. Co-Chairman, International Criminal Law Committee) Bar Associations.
The Florida Bar; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (President, 1989-1990). Law Society of Upper Canada.
Essex County Criminal Lawyers Association. Criminal Lawyers Association, Ontario. (Also practicing individually, Windsor, Ontario, Canada).
To provide quality legal services, the firm intentionally keeps a smaller caseload. The majority of work done by the firm is in complex commercial fraud litigation involving injunctions, attachments and garnishments. The next largest area of practice is in white collar criminal defense.
Well over half of the firm's work is performed on behalf of clients based outside the United States, principally in Latin America, France and Switzerland. Most of these clients are banks and other financial institutions.
Member: and American (Member, White Collar Crime Subcommittee on Money Laundering, 1989. Co-Chairman, International Criminal Law Committee) Bar Associations. The Florida Bar; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (President, 1989-1990). Law Society of Upper Canada. Essex County Criminal Lawyers Association.
Criminal Lawyers Association, Ontario. (Also practicing individually, Windsor, Ontario, Canada).