District of Columbia Criminal Defense Lawyers

Criminal Defense Law

601 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA

Area of Practice: White Collar & National Security Deborah Curtis, former Deputy General Counsel for Litigation and Investigations at the CIA, is a member of the firm’s White Collar Defense & Investigations practice. She focuses on national security investigations and defense, as well as other litigation and enforcement matters. An accomplished trial lawyer, Deborah has chaired 17 jury trials and over 50 bench trials as both prosecutor and defense counsel. As an adviser to senior CIA leadership, Deborah oversaw all litigation and investigations implicating sensitive CIA interests, congressional inquests, incident response, criminal inquiries, and the invocation of state secrets and diplomatic privileges and immunities. She also advised on counterintelligence issues and major international policy initiatives that impact national security, including the U.S.-EU transatlantic data privacy framework and the interface with the International Criminal Court. Prior to joining the CIA, Deborah served as Chief Counsel for Industry and Security at the U.S. Department of Commerce, where she advised executive leadership and the National Security Council on legal enforcement and policy decisions related to the expansion of export controls and enforcement mechanisms, including the Entity List, emerging technologies, and the foreign direct product rule. Deborah previously spent more than a decade in various roles at the U.S. Department of Justice. She worked as a Trial Attorney and Deputy Chief in the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section prosecuting Espionage Act and other national security-related cases, as well as overseeing criminal sanctions, export control investigations, and prosecutions nationwide. Deborah also served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and Deputy Chief in the National Security Section for the District of Columbia, where she investigated, prosecuted, and supervised a broad spectrum of cases, including nation-state sponsored espionage and malign cyber activities; illegal foreign agents; economic espionage; export control and sanctions violations; and related criminal matters involving fraud, terrorism, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the Speech or Debate Clause, and other constitutional issues. Deborah began her career as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California’s Criminal Division. Following that, she served ten years with the U.S. Department of the Air Force as an active duty and reserve Judge Advocate, attaining the grade of Major. During this time, Deborah was the Cadet Counsel at the U.S. Air Force Academy and served as Associate Deputy General Counsel for National Security and Military Affairs at the Pentagon. As a Judge Advocate, she was appointed by the Secretary of the Air Force to lead a Department-level “Crisis Action Team” legal review of sexual harassment at a military academy.

Criminal Defense Law

1101 17th NW St, STE 1100, Washington, DC 20036

Bill Coffield has successfully represented corporations, corporate officers of major corporations, and public sector officials, including The White House and The United States Congress, for over twenty-five years. He is AV Peer Rated by Martindale Hubbell, is ranked a Super Lawyer by Thompson Reuters, and has been named a Top One Hundred Trial Lawyer by the National Trial Lawyers Association. In 2015 Bill was made a Fellow in the Litigation Counselors of America. His areas of practice and expertise include white collar and complex civil litigation. Bill regularly advises clients on how to strategically navigate high-profile investigations by federal agencies, Congress, and foreign governments. Bill attended Fordham University and The University of Miami. He served in the US Army as an Infantry Officer. He is a graduate of numerous Military programs, to include the U.S. Army's Airborne and Ranger Schools. He was Executive Assistant to Congressman Bill Emerson from 1985 to 1991.