Insights

San Francisco – May 29, 2025: Stacey Geis, former deputy assistant administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, has joined Crowell & Moring’s Environment, Energy and Natural Resources and White Collar and Regulatory Enforcement groups as senior counsel in its San Francisco office. Geis brings over 25 years of experience, at the federal and state levels, in environmental law and policy, litigation, and criminal and civil enforcement. 

Washington – May 21, 2025: Crowell & Moring has launched “Crisis Handbook: A Desktop Investigations Guide,” an updated, in-depth resource designed to help companies respond effectively and strategically in the face of a corporate crisis.

Los Angeles – May 5, 2025: Crowell & Moring partners Agustin D. Orozco and Jennie Wang VonCannon have been named to the LA Times Studios’ 2025 list of Legal Visionaries. The list spotlights the “best and brightest in a large and highly competitive world of Southern California professionals” who demonstrate outstanding commitment to their practice, their firm, and the community.

Washington – March 7, 2025: The Burton Awards honored Crowell & Moring partner Joanna Rosen Forster, counsel Jacob Canter and Derick D. Dailey, and associate Matt Menezes with Law360’s Distinguished Legal Writing Award for their article discussing a Supreme Court ruling and its impact on social media companies. The award will be presented at a gala reception at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. on Monday, May 19.

Alexander Kramer, a former assistant chief in the Department of Justice Criminal Division’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Unit, joins Crowell & Moring as partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. Kramer brings more than 15 years of experience as a federal prosecutor and in private practice to the firm’s White Collar and Regulatory Enforcement Group.

Crowell & Moring elected 12 new partners effective January 1, 2025. The firm also promoted four lawyers to the senior counsel and 25 associates to counsel.

Washington – December 9, 2024: Securities Docket has named Thomas A. Hanusik, a partner in Crowell & Moring’s White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement Group, to its “Enforcement Elite” list for 2024. The list identifies the best securities enforcement defense lawyers in the industry and includes key players in some of the most significant SEC enforcement matters over the past few decades. According to the publication, the “Enforcement Elite” are “the lawyers you would turn to if you, your company or a family member were faced with an important SEC enforcement matter.”

Global Investigations Review has named Crowell & Moring’s Investigations and White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement groups to this year’s GIR 100, an annual guide to the world’s leading cross-border investigations practices.

City & State New York named New York office managing partner Glen McGorty to the 2024 Responsible 100 Alumni List. 

The Los Angeles Times B2B Publishing has named Crowell & Moring partners Jennifer S. Romano and Agustin D. Orozco to their list of 2024 Legal Visionaries. The list recognizes stand-out attorneys in Southern California for their “commitment to excellence, thought leadership and impactful contributions to both their clients and the broader legal community.”

The Los Angeles Business Journal has named Crowell & Moring one of its Leaders of Influence: Most Admired Law Firms 2024. The list recognizes the top firms to work for in Los Angeles and includes “an assortment of particularly outstanding law firms who are consciously working towards creating diverse, positive, and supportive environments to help drive the success of their attorneys.”

The Los Angeles Business Journal named Crowell & Moring partners Jennifer S. Romano and Agustin D. Orozco  to its list of Leaders of Influence: Litigators & Trial Attorneys 2024. The list recognizes lawyers in Los Angeles “who go to the proverbial mat to fight for their clients before judges and jury have their own unique sets of skills.”

Global Investigations Review (GIR) named Crowell & Moring partner Anand Sithian to its 2024 “40 Under 40” list. GIR’s list, now in its fourth edition, “shines a spotlight on people from around the world who have gone above and beyond in their work, including those who don’t always receive the same level of recognition as their more established peers, but are equally deserving of it.”

Foreign Investment Watch named Crowell & Moring partner Caroline E. Brown to its list of Top Advisors 2024. The list recognizes the “top advisors who provide advice and counsel concerning foreign investment and national security in the U.S. and abroad.”

Andrea Surratt, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney in both the Southern District of New York and the District of Colorado, has joined Crowell & Moring’s Denver office in the White Collar and Regulatory Enforcement Group.

Global Investigations Review has named Crowell & Moring’s Investigations and White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement groups to its prestigious GIR 100 list, an annual guide to the world’s leading cross-border investigations practices.