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Alexandra Walsh
Partner
Litigation
The Warner
1299 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20004-2400
United States of America
Phone: 202.639.7946
Fax: 202.585.4074
Education and Honors
J.D. (with distinction), Stanford Law School, 2001
Order of the Coif
Managing Board, Stanford Law Review
Kirkland Moot Court Competition, Best Oralist

B.A. (summa cum laude), philosophy and environmental studies, Bowdoin College, 1995
Phi Beta Kappa

Selected by Washingtonian magazine as one of the "40 Top Lawyers Under 40" in Washington, D.C., 2006

Admissions and Affiliations

District of Columbia Bar

United States District Court for the District of Columbia

Advisory Committee on Procedures for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Member

Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court, Member
Practice Areas

Concentration

Appellate litigation, white collar criminal litigation, civil litigation and internal corporate investigations

Summary

Alexandra Walsh's practice focuses on appellate, white collar criminal, and general civil litigation, as well as internal corporate investigations. She practices in both federal and state courts of appeals and trial courts. Ms. Walsh handles all substantive areas of law including constitutional law, white collar criminal defense, administrative law and civil and criminal fraud.

Prior to joining Baker Botts, Ms. Walsh served as a law clerk to the Honorable Merrick B. Garland of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and for Justice Stephen G. Breyer of the United States Supreme Court.

Representative Engagements

  • Former chairman and CEO of a major publishing company – briefing to the Delaware Supreme Court in a corporate control and breach of fiduciary duty case
  • Federal death penalty defendant – briefing to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals challenging denial of a motion to strike death notice as untimely
  • Founder and former CEO of a software company – pending federal criminal prosecution involving alleged accounting and securities fraud
  • Publicly traded technology company – internal investigation of public disclosure controls and procedures

Publications, Speeches and Presentations

  • "Ignorance Is Bliss, But Is It Also a Crime? Opening Your Eyes To the Willful Blindness Doctrine," NACDL White Collar Summer Series, September 2010
  • "Kimbrough, White Collar Sentencing, and the New Primacy of the Sentencing Commission," News/ABA Criminal Litigation, Winter 2009 (co-authored with Andrew George and Bridget Moore)
  • "Formally Legal, Probably Wrong: Corporate Tax Shelters, Practical Reason, and the New Textualism," Stanford Law Review, 2001