Rebecca leverages her experience in all three branches of government to help clients navigate today’s regulatory and government enforcement landscape.
Rebecca believes that businesses and individuals are best situated to thrive when the legal “rules of the road” are clear-cut, rational and transparent. Rebecca currently guides clients in a variety of business sectors as they conduct internal investigations, defend against government investigations or enforcement actions, or engage in complex civil litigation. Clients appreciate Rebecca’s ability to quickly distill complex legal issues into a clear, commonsense strategy, paired with her sensitivity to how government views and enacts laws and regulations.
Before joining Husch Blackwell, Rebecca served as Counsel to the Solicitor at the U.S. Department of Labor, an appointed position in which she gained firsthand insight into agency rulemaking and administrative enforcement, as well as coordinated the agency’s response to congressional inquiries. Both this agency experience and a prior clerkship with the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee sharpened her awareness of the underlying policy priorities often informing government action, which Rebecca draws upon in regularly leading clients through U.S. Department of Justice or State Attorneys General investigations.
In representing clients in civil litigation, or if a government investigation proceeds to litigation, Rebecca relies on her government experience as a federal judicial law clerk and in the executive branch, as well as her significant private sector civil litigation experience. In addition, while previously practicing in the Washington, DC office of a global law firm, Rebecca counseled both domestic and international clients in strengthening and refining their compliance programs and focused her pro bono practice on assisting individuals challenging regulatory schemes through preparing amicus briefs.