O’Melveny’s Washington, DC office is a vibrant synthesis of a Washington practice and a broad-based national practice. With approximately 100 attorneys, we are adept at meeting the complex challenges facing our clients across a range of industries and practice areas, from sensitive regulatory and public policy issues to serving as national coordinating counsel on large-scale litigation. Our office is home to one of the nation’s preeminent appellate practices, and we are widely recognized as a top choice for strategic counsel on antitrust, foreign investment and trade, white collar criminal defense, and financial services and health care enforcement and regulatory matters. In 2023, Chambers USA ranked DC-based lawyers in our Antitrust, Appellate, Bankruptcy/Restructuring, ERISA Litigation, General Commercial Litigation, International Trade, Product Liability and Mass Torts, White Collar, and Securities practice areas. Law360 recently recognized us as a Practice Group of the Year for Insurance, Bankruptcy, Product Liability, and Transportation. The National Law Journal has named us to its Appellate Hot List for 10 years, and awarded us Washington DC General Litigation Department of the Year in 2022.

With a rich tradition of high-level government service, our lawyers have the experience to offer critical insight to clients confronting federal, state, or congressional investigations, and draw on a blend of senior government and private practice experience to handle high-profile enforcement actions. We count among our colleagues a former Counsel to the Vice President, a former Deputy Director of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, a former counsel to Senate committees, several former Assistant United States attorneys, former counsels to DOJ Assistant Attorney Generals, and former chiefs of two DOJ criminal division fraud and public integrity sections.  Our lawyers have clerked in a variety of federal and state courts, including the US Supreme Court.