Thomas Saunders Email & Phone Number

Washington D.C.

* Investigate and prosecute violations of national security laws, including counter-terrorism, malign foreign influence, and export control laws* Prosecuted and convicted Russian agent for conspiracy to violate 18 U.S.C., section 951, for her attempts to infiltrate a high-profile American gun rights organization* Prosecuted and convicted dual US/Israeli national for exportation of military technology to Hong Kong, in violation of the Arms Export Control Act (ITAR) and the… Show more * Investigate and prosecute violations of national security laws, including counter-terrorism, malign foreign influence, and export control laws* Prosecuted and convicted Russian agent for conspiracy to violate 18 U.S.C., section 951, for her attempts to infiltrate a high-profile American gun rights organization* Prosecuted and convicted dual US/Israeli national for exportation of military technology to Hong Kong, in violation of the Arms Export Control Act (ITAR) and the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA)* Conducting multi-national investigation into the activities of a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO)* Litigated 40+ trials involving conspiracies, homicides, kidnapping, and obstruction of justice, among other criminal offenses * Conducted dozens of multi-year grand jury investigations interviewing witnesses, issuing search warrants, and issuing legal process under the Stored Communications Act, 18 U.S.C. sections 2701-2712 Show less

Washington D.C. Metro Area

* Litigated international human rights civil suit on behalf of victims of torture, forced labor, and human trafficking* Represented the families of 12 Nepali workers killed in Iraq in a lawsuit against a U.S. military contractor, asserting forced labor and human trafficking violations* Wrote extensively for motions practice on evolving issues of law surrounding the extraterritorial reach of U.S. civil laws, including the Alien Tort Statute and the Trafficking Victims Protection… Show more * Litigated international human rights civil suit on behalf of victims of torture, forced labor, and human trafficking* Represented the families of 12 Nepali workers killed in Iraq in a lawsuit against a U.S. military contractor, asserting forced labor and human trafficking violations* Wrote extensively for motions practice on evolving issues of law surrounding the extraterritorial reach of U.S. civil laws, including the Alien Tort Statute and the Trafficking Victims Protection Act* Submitted amicus brief to the D.C. Circuit on behalf of Senators Barbara Boxer, Dick Durbin, Jim McDermott and others, regarding the Securities and Exchange Commission's statutory authority to promulgate rules regulating "conflict minerals" mined in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Show less

Greater New York City Area

Federal judicial clerk to the Honorable Laura Taylor Swain

Seoul, Korea

Fulbright Fellow, assisting professors of law at Seoul National University to lay the ground work for the University's first academic legal clinic

Jd, Law, Magna Cum Laude, Order Of The Coif

Ab, Cum Laude, Social Studies, With Honors

Thesis: Jurgen Habermas’ Theory of Communicative Action and Jury Nullification in American Courts