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Counsel
Environmental
Washington
(202) 955-1549 Phone
(202) 778-2201 Fax
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Business Crimes
Defense
Corporate and
Securities
Litigation
Environmental Audits
& Compliance
Assessments
Environmental Crimes
Environmental
Enforcement and
Defense
Internal
Investigations
Litigation
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Practice focuses on white collar criminal defense, internal investigations, civil and criminal environmental enforcement, and general litigation. Represents both individuals and corporations in regulatory inquiries, criminal investigations, and parallel civil and criminal proceedings. Experience includes response to search warrants, grand jury and other subpoenas, government investigations and whistleblower complaints.
Relevant Experience 
- Represents energy, pipeline, consumer products, and other industrial companies on a range of criminal and regulatory matters, including internal investigations, litigation, grand jury subpoenas, search warrants, compliance issues, and enforcement defense.
- Conducts internal investigations, compliance audits, and other evaluations on behalf of corporations and individuals.
- Represents financial institutions in contract disputes, federal claims and other litigation.
- Led internal investigation of national industrial corporation in response to allegations of environmental noncompliance and fraud.
- Led internal investigation, on behalf of senior executive, of complex industrial accident that resulted in fatalities, and represented senior executive during the subsequent federal investigation, which resulted in a declination of prosecution of the executive.
- Conducted internal investigation of national consumer products corporation to assess environmental compliance in response to state and federal investigations.
- Represented worldwide consumer products company in international extradition matter.
- Responded to law enforcement subpoenas and requests for information on behalf of Fortune 25 company and prepared employees to testify.
- Represented international industrial corporation in wide-ranging whistleblower action involving criminal, regulatory and other compliance allegations, resulting in no penalty and a declination of prosecution from the government.
- Tried more than 75 federal criminal cases as first chair, including complex money laundering, fraud, conspiracy, corruption, and trafficking.
- Prepared more than fifty appellate briefs and presented oral argument on numerous occasions before the First, Third, and District of Columbia Courts of Appeal, as well as the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces and the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals.
- Prosecuted large scale drug trafficking and money laundering organizations, and coordinated multi-jurisdictional and interagency prosecution of those organizations.
- Pro Bono activities include representation of veterans before the Board of Veterans Appeals and the Court of Appeals, representation of a defendant in a complex Innocence Project case, and service on the Pro Bono Committee.
Background
- Senior Litigation Counsel, OCDETF Lead Task Force Attorney, United States Attorneys' Office, St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands, 2002-2006.
- Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorneys' Office, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2000-2002.
- Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorneys' Office, Washington, D.C., 1998-2000.
- Lieutenant Commander, Judge Advocate General's Corps, United States Navy (1990-1998); Department Head in charge of all area defense counsel (Florida, Spain); Section Chief of appellate defense counsel in Washington, D.C.; Office of Military Justice (Code 20); selected as best trial advocate for all of Europe and Southwest Asia.
Membership
- Admitted, District of Columbia, Virginia and Nebraska State Bars, U.S. Court of Military Appeals, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- Member, American and Virginia Bar Associations, Women's Bar Association of D.C., Washington Council of Lawyers
Awards and Professional Recognition
- Special Award of Honor from the International Narcotic Enforcement Association
- OCDETF Outstanding Operation Award for the Florida/Caribbean Region
- Certificate of Appreciation, Drug Enforcement Administration
- Navy Commendation Medal, Navy Achievement Medal
Education - J.D., University of Notre Dame Law School, Thomas J. White Scholar, Robert Gaynor Berry Scholar, 1990
- B.A., Thomas Aquinas College, Classics/Philosophy, 1987
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Patricia Sulzbach
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