Practice Areas & Industries: McGuireWoods LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Running an organization is a complex matter. Things can and do go awry. When that happens, your company needs the support of a law firm with deep experience in this field.

That's why many companies, boards of directors, and governmental entities turn to McGuireWoods for counseling and legal representation. We represent clients on issues arising from internal audits, SEC and corporate compliance investigations, Congressional inquiries, grand jury investigations, regulatory or administrative investigations, criminal investigations and inquiries by state attorneys general. These matters involve a wide array of legal issues, including tax, antitrust, accounting and financial issues, securities, environmental matters, health care and government contracting and False Claims Act litigation.

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Our White Collar team works closely with the firm's other practice groups to prevent regulatory inquiries from becoming criminal issues. We conduct internal investigations on wide-ranging issues and advise management regarding the establishment of compliance programs, with an emphasis on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Department of Justice Guidelines for Prosecutions and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines.

The White Collar team has substantial expertise in large documentation cases, especially with regard to electronic document retrieval and production. We have recently directed what is believed to be one of the largest productions in history by a Fortune 100 company to the Department of Justice and SEC, as well as managing and reviewing some 50 million electronic documents in the Enron scandal. The team also has significant experience in working with forensic computer experts, as well as with experts in the design and utilization of databases managing multiple terabytes of information.

Our team is made up of former federal and state prosecutors. It also includes two former state attorneys general who advise clients in state-related negotiations and litigation.

The firm's national team is led by a lawyer who has served both as Attorney General of Virginia and as United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. Another member of our team joined the firm after a distinguished career as both a federal and state prosecutor, including several terms as the elected Commonwealth of Virginia's Attorney for Henrico County, a Richmond metropolitan suburb.

Our Washington, DC team is led by a former Department of Justice official with extensive experience in complex Federal fraud cases in the criminal, regulatory and civil arenas. The team also includes a lawyer who was an enforcement attorney with the Securities and Exchange Commission and a criminal prosecutor in Phoenix, Arizona. Our Chicago office includes former veteran federal prosecutors.

Representative Work

• Represent Time Warner (formerly AOL Time Warner) in a Department of Justice investigation into its accounting practices.

• Represent the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Executive Leadership in a Department of Justice investigation of an alleged leak of classified information.

• Represent Boeing in connection with a Department of Justice investigation involving a former Department of Defense employee.

• Advising House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, in connection to allegations in the press relating to overseas travel.

• Represented witness called before federal grand jury in the Valerie Plame leak case.