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New white collar defense partners at Arent Fox in L.A.

By Richard Binder

Arent Fox LLP announced today that Terree Bowers and Mary Carter Andrues have joined the firm as partners in Los Angeles. They join the white collar defense practice.

Terree Bowers is the former US Attorney for the Central District of California. During his tenure, he established and chaired the first Telemarketing/Investment Fraud Task Force in the country. He also created and led the Financial Institutions Fraud Task Force for the Los Angeles area. He later served as the Chief Deputy City Attorney for Los Angeles, supervising more than 525 attorneys. He received the prestigious Attorney General's Award for Distinguished Service and has been honored by three United States Attorneys General and one Canadian for his outstanding work in a variety of fields. In 1994, the Department of Justice selected Mr. Bowers to serve as a US representative on the Yugoslavia War Crimes Tribunal (ICTY). He traveled to Bosnia at the height of the Yugoslav conflict to investigate allegations of genocide and helped present the international arrest warrant case against Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic. He is an accomplished trial and appellate lawyer with over 30 years of experience in supervising and litigating complex commercial, white collar and regulatory cases in the areas of securities fraud, banking and financial institutions, civil rights actions, political corruption issues, government contracting, health care fraud, pharmaceutical testing issues, environmental criminal, false claims, customs, tax fraud, antitrust issues, insurance coverage and a variety of other complex litigation matters.

Mary Carter Andrues focuses on white collar criminal defense, internal corporate investigations, international and domestic regulatory compliance and enforcement and complex commercial litigation. Ms. Andrues was an Assistant US Attorney in the Central District of California, where she served as the Chief of the Public Corruption and Civil Rights Section; Deputy Chief of the Public Corruption and Government Fraud Section; and as Health Care Fraud Coordinator. She served on the US Department of Justice, Attorney General's Advisory Committee and Health Care Fraud Subcommittee. Ms. Andrues received the Attorney General's Director's Award for her role as the lead federal prosecutor in the LAPD Rampart Investigation. Ms. Andrues has more than 20 years of trial experience and handles matters involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, including investigations by the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Her practice also focuses on areas of government contract and procurement fraud, improper gifts, gratuities and kickbacks, violations of federal export control laws, including the Arms Export Control Act, International Traffic in Arms Regulations, International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the Export Administration Act. She regularly served as an instructor to federal law enforcement agencies and at the US Department of Justice, National Advocacy Training Center.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on March 17, 2010 (boomark / email).