Partner
Litigation
Washington, D.C. Office
E. Lawrence Barcella, Jr. has extensive experience in every area of white-collar criminal litigation. He has been involved in directing major investigations and litigation in the prosecution and/or defense of cases involving charges of bribery, ethics offenses, political corruption, fraud and government contract violations, health care fraud and abuse, securities violations, money laundering and banking offenses, tax violations, and export violations. He has substantial experience with intelligence-related cases under the Classified Intelligence Procedures Act and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Mr. Barcella has extensive experience in issues involving the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) and the Ethics in Government Act. He has represented several former senior government officials and corporate officers, as well as members of corporate Board of Directors relating to ethical conduct and breach offiduciary duty issues.
Additionally, Mr. Barcella received national and international recognition for his investigation and prosecution of a former CIA agent convicted of violating the Arms Export and Munitions Control Act. He also has extensive experience dealing with legal systems and officials in more than a dozen foreign countries, where his work has encompassed depositions, letters rogatory, internal investigations, treaty negotiations, extraditions, and fugitive recovery. He has represented several high profile corporate clients, including high ranking former government officials, involved in congressional investigations and has testified before Congress on behalf of clients. He recently served the U.S. House of Representatives as Chief Counsel to its "October Surprise" Task Force. He also has served as Special Master to two Federal Judges regarding sensitive law office search issues.
Mr. Barcella is a former Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. He served in a variety of positions during 16 years there, including Deputy Chief of that Office's elite Major Crimes Division. He was selected by the Attorney General as Senior Litigation Counsel, a position reserved for only the most experienced and qualified federal prosecutors.
His handling of numerous complex criminal and allied civil fraud matters has brought Mr. Barcella national recognition. The many awards he has received during his career include the John Marshall Award, the United States Department of Justice's highest award for litigation. He has lectured nationally on a wide variety of litigation-related topics. He has published articles on topics such as handling complex internal corporate investigations, joint defense agreements, and money laundering. He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court and a variety of federal and local courts. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and The American and District of Columbia Bar Associations, as well as a member of the American Bar Association's White Collar Crime Committee of the Criminal Justice Section and the Litigation Section's Complex Crimes Committee. Mr. Barcella is also a Fellow in the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and the American College of Trial Lawyers.
Mr. Barcella received his A.B. degree from Dartmouth College in 1967 and his J.D. degree from Vanderbilt University School of Law in 1970.
Mr. Barcella is Co-Chair of the National White Collar Corporate Criminal Defense Practice along with Paul L. Perito, both of whom have worked together in a variety of complex high profile professional matters in their allied specialty areas for the past several years.