Roscoe C. Howard, Jr., Partner

• Phone: 202.662.2750
• Email: roscoehoward@andrewskurth.com
• Website: www.andrewskurth.com
• Professional Biography:

  Roscoe’s practice focuses on white-collar criminal matters, corporate compliance and ethics issues, and complex litigation. He has extensive experience in handling investigative matters initiated by the Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, and local state law enforcement agencies. He has assisted with corporate internal investigations, provides advice on corporate compliance and ethics issues and has handled a wide variety of criminal cases. He is a member of the Corporate Compliance Investigations and Defense and the Antitrust Litigation Practice Groups. Mr. Howard has tried over 100 cases to trial as a federal prosecutor and has handled matters in both federal court and the District of Columbia Superior Court.

  Prior to private practice, Mr. Howard was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia from 2001-2004. During his appointment as U.S. Attorney he served on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee. Roscoe was appointed as United States Attorney from a tenured, full professorship at the University of Kansas School of Law, where he taught from 1994 to 2001. He has twice served as an Associate Independent Counsel, and previously held positions as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of Columbia, as well as the Eastern District of Virginia in both Richmond and Alexandria.

  As a federal prosecutor he has handled criminal cases involving narcotics trafficking, homicides, fraud and public corruption, as well as dozens of trials and investigations before the District of Columbia Superior Court, and numerous grand jury investigations. He has also argued appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and served as the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Coordinator while in Richmond and Chief of the Task Force that prosecuted cases arising from a local prison. 

• Organization: Andrews Kurth LLP

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