Ashley Bailey is a counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Crowell & Moring and a member of the firm's White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement Group. Her focus is white collar criminal defense and regulatory compliance. She has sub-specialties in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and environmental investigations and prosecutions, and she leads the Firm's federal lobbying and campaign finance compliance practices.
In the regulatory compliance component of her practice, Ashley assists members of the Fortune 100, major colleges and universities, trade associations, non-profit organizations, and top-tier law firms. Ashley routinely assists clients in developing compliance programs in areas such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Lobbying Disclosure Act, Foreign Agents Registration Act, federal campaign finance laws, and government ethics rules and regulations.
In defending against criminal allegations, Ashley represents individual and institutional clients through all phases of criminal litigation, including pre-indictment, trial, sentencing, appeal, and petition for pardon or clemency. Most recently, Ashley has been involved in investigations, trials, and contested sentencing proceedings in matters of alleged commercial and foreign bribery, public corruption and lobbying violations, business fraud, and environmental/natural resources crimes. In the past several years, Ashley has represented executives and management boards in the throes of three major FCPA investigations led by the United States Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission. She recently represented a high-profile member of Congress in an investigation by the Department of Justice and also represents corporations in Congressional investigations. Ashley also boasts the rarely-granted Presidential Pardon among her successes for clients.
Prior to joining Crowell & Moring, Ashley was a Trial Attorney for the United States Department of Justice where she served as lead counsel on a number of federal appeals and participated in numerous trials involving claims of upwards of $1 billion. Ashley received the Assistant Attorney General's "Rookie of the Year" Award for exceptional performance while with the Department. She also clerked on the Independent Counsel investigation of Department of Interior Secretary Babbitt and for the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia.
Ashley served two terms as Co-Chair of the Steering Committee for the Criminal Law and Individual Rights Section of the D.C. Bar and remains a member of the committee, a position for which Ashley was elected twice by her peers. She also is a Co-Chair of the Environmental Crimes Subcommittee of the American Bar Association's White Collar Crime Committee. She graduated magna cum laude and with honors from Georgetown University where she was nominated for the Rhodes Scholarship. She received her law degree cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center where she was a research assistant to White Collar Criminal Law professor Julie O'Sullivan; a member of the National Moot Court team; winner of the Weschler First Amendment Moot Court Competition; recipient of the graduate awards for both commercial law and appellate litigation; and an editor to The Tax Lawyer. Ashley also received the International Trial Lawyer's Award for her representation of indigent defendants in the Fourth Circuit and is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honors society.
Ashley is admitted to the United States Supreme Court. The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth and Federal Circuits, the United States District Court for Eastern District of New York, and the United States Court of Federal Claims are among the federal courts in which Ashley has argued. Ashley most recently completed a five-week jury trial in a white collar matter in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.
Publications
· "Active Compliance Programs for Lobbying and Election Law," ABA Internal Corporate Investigations and Forum for In-House Counsel 2010 (2010). Co-Authors: Janet Levine, Ashley N. Bailey and Brian Roemer.
Alerts & Newsletters
· "Proposal To Further Executive Branch Employees' Acceptance Of Gifts From Lobbyists," White Collar Alert (September 14, 2011). Contacts: Angela B. Styles, Shauna E. Alonge, Ashley N. Bailey, Peter Eyre.
· "Revised Lobbying Disclosure Guidance Now In Effect," White Collar Alert (January 7, 2010). Contact: Ashley N. Bailey.
· "Revisions to Lobbying Disclosure Act Guidance," White Collar Alert (June 10, 2009). Contact: Ashley N. Bailey.
· "Lobbying Disclosure Act Guidance Reverses Course!," White Collar Alert (July 16, 2008). Contact: Ashley N. Bailey.
· "Go Ahead and Offer the Senator a Cup of Coffee - Senate Gift Rules Don't Require You to Be Rude, Just Stingy," Government Contracts Bullet Points (February 21, 2008). Contacts: Ashley N. Bailey, Angela B. Styles.
· "Go Ahead and Offer the Senator a Cup of Coffee," Government Contracts Bullet Points (February 21, 2008). Contacts: Ashley N. Bailey, Angela B. Styles.
· "Lobby Law Development: Just When You (Almost) Had The New Disclosure Rules Figured Out, Here Come The Constitutional Challenges!," White Collar Alert (February 7, 2008). Contact: Ashley N. Bailey.
Speaking Engagements
· "The Amazing Race: Legal Guidance on Joining the Social Media Craze and Your Political Programs," Women in Government Relations Annual PACs, Politics, and Grass Roots Conference, Washington, D.C. (December 2009). Presenter: Ashley N. Bailey.
· "Emerging Technologies & Political Initiatives: Compliance Risks for Corporations & Associations," Women in Government Relations Seminar on "Using Emerging Media to Power Your Grassroots, PAC, and Public Affairs Efforts," Washington, DC (April 2009). Presenter: Ashley N. Bailey.
· "Lobbying Law & Executive & Legislative Branch Gift Rules," Non-Profit Executives Forum, Washington, DC (March 2009). Presenter: Ashley N. Bailey.