My practice focuses on trials, compliance and trade secret counseling, internal investigations, and complex litigation. I am the co-leader of Winston's Data Security Task Force. I am a true trial lawyer, having taken 11 cases to trial in federal court, succeeding in each. My litigation practice focuses on complex commercial disputes, technology and trade secret litigation, product liability, health care fraud, and consumer class actions. My experience is in both federal and state courts in the U.S., as well as various forums in Europe and Asia. I spent two years leading Winston's Asia litigation practice and as the manager of the firm's office in Hong Kong.Having served as both a prosecutor and in house as litigation counsel and Chief Compliance Officer for a global, publicly traded, manufacturing company, I am able to provide practical advice to companies and Boards seeking to build, improve, and defend compliance programs. I understand that compliance programs differ greatly, based on the resources, risks, industries, privacy regulations, and challenges unique to each company, and I specialize in working with companies, and their Boards, in less regulated industries (including manufacturing, automotive, and technology), in addition to clients in the healthcare and finance industries. Having built a compliance program from the ground up while in-house, and helped many clients do the same, I am able to help work through common organizational road blocks and constraints. I focus a significant portion of my practice on conducting sensitive internal investigations, and interfacing with government agencies on behalf of my clients. I work with companies across many industries to investigate highly sensitive issues related to trade secret theft, conflicts of interest, fraud, and violations of anti-bribery and other laws.

HFS Chicago Scholars, founded in 1993, helps economically disadvantaged Chicago high school students who show academic and leadership promise achieve their goals by providing educational enrichment programs focused on Lifelong Mentoring, Academic Excellence and College Readiness, as well as scholarship assistance to attend top Chicago high schools.

Reporting to the General Counsel and Audit Committee of a publicly traded Fortune 500 manufacturing company (a Tier 1 automobile supplier), I built and grew the global compliance department for the organization (30+ countries and 30,000 employees) with innovative, metrics-driven, integrated, technology-driven solutions, while also advising on various strategic, litigation, and commercial matters across the businesses.Compliance:o Reported to the Board of Directors on compliance strategy, updates, metrics, and risks.o Led Compliance Committee (members include CEO, CFO, GC, Senior VPs).o Led all aspects of compliance program, including FCPA, trade compliance, privacy, antitrust, anti-corruption, strategy, risk, regulatory, conflicts of interest, gifts, anti-money laundering, insider trading, disclosure.o Developed trade compliance program and oversaw building of global trade team.o Led cross-functional development of integrated global third-party screening tool.o Designed and built intranet portal for compliance communications/templates/FAQs.o Drafted all legal/compliance policies, and created platform to communicate to all employees. o With HR, focused efforts on improving/measuring company culture.o Oversaw the design, development, and reporting of web-based onboarding/periodic training curriculum, developed and delivered dozens of in-person training sessions globally.o Managed cross-functional project teams, including EU/US Privacy Shield certification. o Led all compliance investigations, and developed investigation protocol.o Developed and implemented compliance risk heat map.o Developed compliance maturity model, and metrics dashboard.• Litigation/Commercial:o Led Global Warranty process, advising on warranty reserves.o Oversaw outside counsel on numerous matters including a significant trade secret litigation and a cross-border regulatory investigation.o Served as lead commercial counsel to one business unit.

Taught "Computer Crime and the Legal System" (with David Glockner). The course touched on numerous topics exploring how technology interacts with the law, including cybercrime, information security, data breaches, theft of trade secrets, and data privacy.

Litigation partner with a focus on complex civil litigation, class actions, qui tam actions, white collar criminal matters, government investigations, regulatory enforcement actions, corporate internal investigations.

As a federal prosecutor, I succeeded at trial in prosecuting corporate executives, public officials, and law enforcement officers for fraud, bribery, extortion, and perjury, including as trial counsel in the prosecutions of a member of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley’s cabinet; a Cook County Commissioner; several City of Chicago inspectors; a former Chicago alderman; and the president of a large pharmaceutical company.Working hand in hand with federal and state law enforcement, I also investigated and prosecuted a wide range of federal criminal cases involving complex corporate fraud, hacking and cybercrime, theft of confidential information, tax fraud, health care fraud, racketeering, terrorism, sex trafficking, drug and gun trafficking, murder, and gang violence. I, for example, successfully prosecuted a rogue employee who had stolen confidential business information from his Chicago-based employer and attempted to sell that information to competitors. My work often garnered local and national headlines. For example, I led the prosecution team that brought highly publicized fraud charges against William Mastro, an influential sports memorabilia figure, in connection with Mr. Mastro’s efforts to rig online auctions and his alteration of the “most expensive baseball card in the world.” I was also part of the team that prosecuted a Chicago-area man for cyberstalking an ESPN sportscaster. I also led the prosecution team that won the first-ever life sentence for a Chicago-area sex trafficker for enslaving a number of young women, and was also instrumental in bringing a RICO case against a Chicago-area gang, the Hobos, who were ultimately found guilty of committing nine murders.

Taught legal writing to first year law students.