Services
Murphy’s Law is a litigation-focused crypto law firm built for the cases other firms are not equipped to handle. From individual investors who lost funds in a platform collapse to companies navigating regulatory scrutiny, we bring the kind of strategic, aggressive legal work that crypto-related disputes demand. Our practice sits at the intersection of financial litigation, blockchain technology, and federal regulatory enforcement. Whether you need a crypto fraud lawyer to recover stolen assets or outside counsel to advise on compliance, we approach every engagement with the same objective: protect your interests and get results.
Recover Stolen or Lost Cryptocurrency
If you lost digital assets to fraud, theft, a platform collapse, or a Ponzi scheme, these are the paths to recovery through the courts.
Crypto Fraud Recovery Litigation
We represent individuals and groups who lost digital assets through exchange failures, wallet exploits, rug pulls, and platform security breakdowns. Claims are grounded in negligence, fraud, deceptive trade practices, and violations of federal commodities law, and pursued through federal complaints and coordination with law enforcement.
Crypto Ponzi Scheme Class Actions
When the same scheme defrauded dozens or hundreds of investors, coordinated litigation can resolve common claims in one proceeding. We handle class certification strategy, multi-plaintiff coordination, and claims against operators, promoters, and the third parties alleged to have enabled the fraud.
Crypto Bankruptcy and Creditor Claims
We represent individual and institutional creditors in crypto insolvency matters: filing proofs of claim, objecting to proposed plans, and litigating adversary proceedings against insiders and preferential transferees. Working the claims process without experienced counsel often means leaving money on the table.
Emergency Court Relief
When cryptocurrency is moving or at risk of disappearing, court orders can restrain it while the case proceeds.
Cryptocurrency Temporary Restraining Orders
Emergency, short-term orders under Rule 65 that stop digital assets from being transferred, concealed, or cashed out. Often obtained within days, sometimes without notice to the other side, and served on the exchanges holding the funds.
Cryptocurrency Preliminary Injunctions
Longer-term orders that keep disputed digital assets in place through trial. Built on sworn declarations, blockchain tracing, and the four-factor standard courts apply, and prepared for the contested hearing that follows.
Investigate and Trace Digital Assets
Blockchain analysis is only useful when it is built to support subpoenas, court orders, and claims. We run the investigation and the legal strategy together.
Blockchain Investigations
Forensic tracing of cryptocurrency across wallets, bridges, mixers, and exchanges, combined with off-chain evidence and legal process to identify defendants and points of recovery. Available to fraud victims, businesses, trustees and creditors, and referring attorneys.
Defend Against Investigations and Enforcement
For crypto businesses, executives, and individuals facing fraud allegations, regulatory inquiries, or criminal exposure tied to digital assets.
Crypto Regulatory and Enforcement Defense
Defense of businesses and executives facing SEC, CFTC, or state inquiries, civil fraud claims, subpoenas, document requests, and examination inquiries. We assess exposure quickly, preserve evidence, challenge overreaching claims, and position clients for early resolution when the facts support it.
White-Collar Criminal Defense
Representation of individuals and executives in matters involving alleged wire fraud, money laundering, market manipulation, and sanctions violations tied to digital assets. From the moment an investigation surfaces: negotiating with prosecutors, challenging search warrants, and preparing for trial.
Advise and Build Compliant Crypto Businesses
Counsel for startups, DAOs, and established crypto companies that need defensible compliance programs and reliable legal judgment before problems arrive.
Crypto Compliance Consulting
Advice on registration obligations, AML/KYC program development, licensing requirements, and ongoing regulatory reporting, so crypto companies have defensible programs in place before enforcement actions arrive.
Crypto Legal Opinion Letters
Formal legal opinions on token classification, securities law exposure, money transmission risk, and regulatory applicability. These opinions support business decisions, satisfy investor due diligence, and establish good-faith compliance positions.
Fractional General Counsel
Outside general counsel for startups, DAOs, and growing crypto businesses that need consistent legal guidance without an in-house hire: contract review, corporate governance, employment matters, vendor negotiations, and day-to-day legal decisions.
Litigation Support for Other Attorneys
Firms retain Murphy’s Law as briefing or co-counsel when a case needs crypto-specific litigation experience.
Dispositive Motions and Appellate Briefing
Motions to dismiss, motions for summary judgment, preliminary injunction motions, and federal appellate briefs in complex crypto litigation, drafted and argued for firms that need specialized support.
Also for referring attorneys
Blockchain investigations and emergency relief applications are available on a co-counsel or consulting basis. See blockchain investigations and cryptocurrency temporary restraining orders.
A Licensed Litigation Firm, Not a Recovery Service
Murphy’s Law pursues recovery and defense through the courts, with subpoenas, discovery, court orders, and enforceable judgments. Founding attorney Liam Murphy litigated billion-dollar cases at Paul Hastings, Selendy Gay, and McKool Smith before dedicating his practice to cryptocurrency law.
Not Sure Which Service You Need?
Start with who you are. Every consultation is free and confidential, and we will tell you which path fits your situation.
I lost cryptocurrency
To fraud, theft, a scam, a collapsed platform, or a Ponzi scheme.
I run a crypto business
Building a compliance program, facing an inquiry, or needing ongoing counsel.
I am an attorney
Looking for crypto co-counsel, briefing support, or blockchain analysis for a case.
Want Liam to Fight For You?
If you are facing a crypto-related legal matter as an investor, a business, or the subject of an investigation, Murphy’s Law will evaluate your situation. Experience fighting billion dollar frauds. Contact Liam Murphy through our contact page.
This page is attorney advertising and provides general information only. It is not legal advice, and reading it does not create an attorney-client relationship. Outcomes depend on the facts and applicable law.