[6] Futerfas plays bass trombone in the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony.
[9] In the late 1990s, he transitioned to largely handling white-collar cases, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigations and other regulatory matters.
[6] Futerfas was also the attorney for Ziv Orenstein, one of three Israeli citizens indicted in 2015 on charges of being part of a cybertheft ring that stole customer data from JPMorgan Chase and Dow Jones & Co. the previous year as part of a huge "pump and dump" scheme.
[6][11] In a separate cybercrime case, Futerfas represented Nikita Kuzmin, a Russian national who created malware targeting bank accounts.
[6][8] Futerfas' firm has represented a Rikers Island female prisoner in a 2015 rights and sexual assault case.