District of Columbia Lawyers

Criminal Defense Law

601 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA

Area of Practice: White Collar & National Security Deborah Curtis, former Deputy General Counsel for Litigation and Investigations at the CIA, is a member of the firm’s White Collar Defense & Investigations practice. She focuses on national security investigations and defense, as well as other litigation and enforcement matters. An accomplished trial lawyer, Deborah has chaired 17 jury trials and over 50 bench trials as both prosecutor and defense counsel. As an adviser to senior CIA leadership, Deborah oversaw all litigation and investigations implicating sensitive CIA interests, congressional inquests, incident response, criminal inquiries, and the invocation of state secrets and diplomatic privileges and immunities. She also advised on counterintelligence issues and major international policy initiatives that impact national security, including the U.S.-EU transatlantic data privacy framework and the interface with the International Criminal Court. Prior to joining the CIA, Deborah served as Chief Counsel for Industry and Security at the U.S. Department of Commerce, where she advised executive leadership and the National Security Council on legal enforcement and policy decisions related to the expansion of export controls and enforcement mechanisms, including the Entity List, emerging technologies, and the foreign direct product rule. Deborah previously spent more than a decade in various roles at the U.S. Department of Justice. She worked as a Trial Attorney and Deputy Chief in the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section prosecuting Espionage Act and other national security-related cases, as well as overseeing criminal sanctions, export control investigations, and prosecutions nationwide. Deborah also served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and Deputy Chief in the National Security Section for the District of Columbia, where she investigated, prosecuted, and supervised a broad spectrum of cases, including nation-state sponsored espionage and malign cyber activities; illegal foreign agents; economic espionage; export control and sanctions violations; and related criminal matters involving fraud, terrorism, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the Speech or Debate Clause, and other constitutional issues. Deborah began her career as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California’s Criminal Division. Following that, she served ten years with the U.S. Department of the Air Force as an active duty and reserve Judge Advocate, attaining the grade of Major. During this time, Deborah was the Cadet Counsel at the U.S. Air Force Academy and served as Associate Deputy General Counsel for National Security and Military Affairs at the Pentagon. As a Judge Advocate, she was appointed by the Secretary of the Air Force to lead a Department-level “Crisis Action Team” legal review of sexual harassment at a military academy.

Labor Law

2001 L Street, N.W., 902, Washington, DC 20036

With more than two decades of experience litigating a vast range of high stakes federal employment law matters, Donna is a vital component of Tully Rinckey PLLC’s nationally recognized federal labor and employment law practice group. Prior to joining the firm, Donna was Principal of her own labor and employment firm in Washington, D.C., and has held top positions at a number of prestigious firms throughout her extensive career. As past President and executive board member of the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association (MWELA), Donna has routinely interfaced with dynamic issues and information pertaining to employment law and enjoys the respect of the top federal labor and employment attorneys in the country.

Civil Litigation

1717 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, 12th Floor, Washington, DC 20006

Ed Longosz has a local and nationwide practice with a broad range of experience in complex civil litigation. His practice includes business torts, class actions, the defense of toxic torts, product liability, professional malpractice D&O matters. In addition, he represents airlines on passenger and cargo claims, commercial and regulatory matters, government compliance and investigations, antitrust, class actions, insurance coverage, contract disputes, agency disputes, and bad faith cases.

Intellectual Property Law

1101 New Hampshire Ave NW #612, Washington, DC 20037, USA

Eric G. Wright is the founder and Managing Partner of Wright IP & International Law. His IP practice focuses on litigation, trial, opinions, counseling and prosecution. It strategically supports the development of worldwide protection and trade of commercial products and core technologies in a broad variety of technological arts. Previously, Mr. Wright was the leader of the United States International Trade Commission (USITC) and International Trade practices of a leading US law firm. He also worked in IP at Morgan & Finnegan LLP and co-founded its renewed D.C. USITC litigation practice. Mr. Wright has always maintained a significant practice working to develop worldwide patent and trademark portfolios for commercial products in competitive markets. Prior to legal practice he worked as an engineer for almost a decade in engineering design and construction, manufacturing operations and consulting.

Health Care Law

1900 K Street NW, c/o Dentons, Washington, DC 20006

Gadi is one of the nation’s more experienced and sought-after health care fraud and abuse and regulatory compliance lawyers, garnering tier one recognition from Chambers USA for the past nine years. Clients have described him as “brilliant” and “creative,” “a deep strategic thinker who is results-focused” and “a tremendous problem solver." His unrelenting commitment to his client’s success also has earned him accolades in The Legal 500, SuperLawyers and from BTI Consulting Group, among others. Gadi has 34 years of experience representing hospitals, health systems and academic medical centers; pharmaceutical (including vaccine) developers and manufacturers, medical device and durable medical equipment (DME) manufacturers and suppliers, faculty practice plans and medical practices, group purchasing organizations, accountable care organizations (ACOs), managed care organizations, private equity and information technology companies in a wide variety of matters.