Hecker Fink LLP

Congressional Investigations; FCPA and Anti-Corruption; Investigations and Crisis Management; National Security and International Law Enforcement; Trials; White Collar Criminal Defense

Partner

Amy Jeffress is a partner at Hecker Fink LLP.

Amy has extensive experience advising clients regarding complex national security and compliance matters, as well as conducting trials and assisting clients in navigating challenging government and internal investigations. She is a former federal prosecutor, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Attaché, and Counselor to the Attorney General.

Amy represents individual and institutional clients in criminal defense, national security, compliance matters, and civil litigation. She also conducts internal investigations and advises companies and individuals on export enforcement, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), classified and leaked information, the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), and mutual legal assistance and other international law enforcement issues, including extradition and INTERPOL notices.

Amy has received widespread recognition for her work. Chambers named Amy “White-Collar Lawyer of the Year” in 2022 and ranks her as one of Washington D.C.’s top litigators in white collar crime and government investigations, with their sources describing her as “an outstanding lawyer with a distinguished background in national security law” who is “detail-oriented and has a very nice rapport with her clients.”

Amy has extensive experience working across multiple components of the Department of Justice. She served as the DOJ Attaché to the U.S. Embassy in London, coordinated cooperation between U.S. and UK authorities on criminal matters, and was Counselor to the Attorney General, advising the Attorney General and senior Department leadership and interfacing regularly with the White House and National Security Council, the intelligence community, and other agencies on national security investigations and prosecutions and international matters. She also spent over a decade at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Columbia, where she tried more than 40 cases and served as Chief of the National Security Section, conducting and supervising investigations and prosecutions of international and domestic terrorism, espionage, export control violations, and other crimes related to national security.

Amy was a partner at Arnold & Porter LLP, where she co-chaired the firm's White Collar Defense & Investigations practice, before joining Hecker Fink.

Amy is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, an Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court Barrister, and a member of the Advisory Committee to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on the Local Rules.

Amy clerked for the Honorable Gerhard Gesell of the U.S. District Court, District of Columbia. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School, a Diploma in Political Science from Freie Universität Berlin, and her B.A., magna cum laude, from Williams College.

Select Speaking Engagements and Publications

Co-Chair, “6th National Forum on FARA,” American Conference Institute, December 3, 2024

Co-Author, “Presidential Appointments and Senate Confirmations: A Guide for Prospective Trump Administration Political Appointees,” Practical Guidance, November 22, 2024

Presenter, “ACC NCR Signature Lunch: From Chaos to Control: Best Practices for Ethically Navigating Crises,” Association of Corporate Counsel, October 16, 2024

B.A., Williams College, magna cum laude, 1987 Diploma in Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin, 1989 J.D., Yale Law School, 1992