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Education and Honors
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J.D., Fordham University School of Law, 1976 Articles Editor, Fordham Law Review
B.A., art history, Vassar College, 1972
Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, 2006 - 2010; The Washington Post's "Best Lawyers in Washington," 2006; and The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers, 2006
Recognized as a "Washington D.C. Super Lawyer" by Law & Politics, 2009 - 2010
Washingtonian Magazine Top Lawyers 2009
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Admissions and Affiliations
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Practice Areas
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Concentration White collar criminal defense, internal investigations, corporate compliance
Summary Mary Spearing concentrates on white collar criminal defense, internal investigations and corporate compliance. She has extensive experience with a wide variety of fraud issues centering on financial fraud, healthcare, securities and defense procurement, as well as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the Economic Espionage Act.
Prior to 1999, Ms. Spearing worked for the United States Department of Justice for 18 years, as an assistant U.S. attorney for several years trying criminal cases and most recently as the criminal chief of the Fraud Section, where she supervised a large staff of lawyers who investigated and prosecuted white collar crime throughout the country. She worked closely with major enforcement agencies, including the F.B.I., the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of the Treasury.
Since joining Baker Botts, in addition to acting as defense counsel in cases brought by the U.S. Justice Department involving insider trading, campaign finance, obstruction of justice and accounting fraud, among others, Ms. Spearing has also conducted numerous internal investigations for boards of directors and audit committees. A number of those investigations have involved violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in Asia, Africa, Europe and South America.
Representative Engagements
- Salt Lake City Olympic Committee's chief financial officer – investigation surrounding the Olympic bribery scandal in the District of Utah
- Former CEO of Rite Aid – indictment in an accounting fraud and obstruction case in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
- CFO of a major healthcare company in Virginia – healthcare fraud grand jury investigation
- Executive assistant to Senator Robert Torricelli – campaign finance investigation in the Southern District of New York
- Financial consultant – insider trading investigation in the Southern District of New York
- Major corporation – federal environmental crime investigation into alleged Clean Water Act violations in the Northern District of Florida
- Compliance officer for an environmental testing laboratory company – federal grand jury investigation in New Jersey
- Various corporations – internal investigations relating to Foreign Corrupt Practices Act issues, securities fraud, bribery and environmental violations
Publications, Speeches and Presentations Publications
- "Should MDs Be Exempt From Antitrust Laws to Negotiate Collectively?" Heath Care Fraud & Abuse, March 1999 (Kelly Riley Donovan, co-author)
Speeches and Presentations
- "FCPA Issues Facing Multinational Companies," Compliance Week, 2009 Annual Conference, Washington D.C., June 2009
- "The Patriot Act and Money Laundering," American Bar Association, Section of Business Law, Boston, April 2002
- "The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act," Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development Convention, American Bar Association, San Francisco, March 2002
- "Issues Facing Women Litigators," District of Columbia Bar Association/Women's Bar Association, Washington, D.C., April 2001
- "SEC Regulatory and Enforcement Initiatives: The Focus on Accounting," Deloitte & Touche's Office of General Counsel, New York, March 2000 (with James R. Doty)
- Moderator: "The Investigation and Prosecution of a Financial Fraud Case," District of Columbia Bar Winter Convention, Washington, D.C., March 2000
- "The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act," Executive Enterprises Seminar, San Francisco, May 1999
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