PERSON: Amy Jeffress

AMy Jeffress represents clients in criminal defense, national security, government contracts, and compliance matters. She conducts internal investigations and advises companies and individuals on export enforcement, FCPA, classified information, and mutual legal assistance and other international law enforcement issues, including extradition and INTERPOL notices.

Before joining the firm, Ms. Jeffress served as the Justice Department Attaché to the US Embassy in London, where she coordinated cooperation between the US and the UK on criminal matters. She worked with US federal and state prosecutors and agents as well as numerous UK authorities, including the Serious Fraud Office, Crown Prosecution Service, Attorney General’s Office, Home Office, and Ministry of Justice. She previously served as Counselor to the Attorney General, advising the Attorney General and senior Department leadership and interfacing regularly with the White House and National Security Council, the intelligence community, and other agencies on national security investigations and prosecutions and international matters.

Ms. Jeffress tried more than 40 cases as a federal prosecutor. She was Chief of the National Security Section in the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, conducting and supervising investigations and prosecutions of international and domestic terrorism, espionage, export control violations, and other crimes related to national security.