The POWER List: Sanford J. Boxerman

Capes Sokol, St. Louis

Sandy Boxerman, a founding partner of Capes Sokol in St. Louis, blends white-collar criminal defense and tax law in his practice.

Some of his work is more traditional. Earlier this year, he represented the former chief executive officer of a St. Louis account marketing services company who was sentenced to 22 months in prison in a $2.5 million bank-fraud scheme.

Other cases touch on less familiar fields. He once advised a client whose Bitcoin-related business became the target of a state investigation for potential securities-law violations. The state closed the case without taking any action, but it triggered in Boxerman an interest in cryptocurrencies.

He serves with several legal organizations, including the Digital Currency and Ledger Defense Coalition and as co-chair of the St. Louis regional subcommittee of the American Bar Association’s white-collar crime committee.

Following an internship in the Washington, D.C. office of U.S. Sen. Thomas Eagleton, Boxerman earned his law degree in 1988 from Harvard Law School. After law school, he joined Lewis Rice, where he worked for three years with former U.S. Attorney Barry Short. He then spent three years as an assistant public defender before returning to private practice.