Sandra Vucinic is an Associate at FMG’s El Segundo office as part of the Financial Services and Banking practice group. She litigates complex commercial matters with a focus on matters involving the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and securities matters.
Prior to working for the firm, Ms. Vucinic was an associate at a boutique law firm that specializes in healthcare fraud and prosecuting qui tam actions on behalf of insurance carriers and welfare benefit plans. She worked on a variety of investigative and litigation matters regarding complex whistleblower actions and fraudulent schemes involving healthcare and insurance regulation.
While undergoing the New York and California bar admission processes her first year out of law school, Ms. Vucinic worked at a bank as a Financial Crimes Investigation Analyst in the Bank Secrecy Act Department, where she analyzed and investigated potential instances of financial crimes including check fraud, elder abuse, micro- structuring and money laundering. Her role included analyzing client accounts for fraudulent transactions and the preparation of necessary reports for filing with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) when her investigation concluded that suspicious activity was involved.
Ms. Vucinic obtained substantial civil and criminal litigation experience while in law school. As a Litigation Extern at Duane Morris in 2018, she assisted attorneys in the Silicon Valley office’s intellectual property practice with an array of tasks related to proving patent infringement against their clients. She interned for various government institutions including her local public defender office in Rockland County, New York, as well as the Litigation Team at the San Jose City Attorney’s Office. In 2017, she was a Law Clerk at the U.S. Attorney Office for the Northern District of California in the Economics Crimes and Securities Fraud Unit, where she supported Assistant U.S. Attorneys with cases involving complex schemes of fraud in the industries of insurance, healthcare, and securities.