Dick Janis is one of Washington's most well-known and highly regarded white collar criminal defense lawyers, as well as an experienced civil litigator. Over the course of his career, Mr. Janis has been involved in a wide range of criminal matters, representing both companies and individuals throughout the United States; he has also had a number of client matters in England, as well as in Italy, Switzerland, France, Taiwan, Australia, and Canada. Mr. Janis is currently representing two senior executives of BP with respect to investigations being conducted by the Department of Justice, as well as with respect to the multidistrict litigation, regarding the Deepwater Horizon incident. Following his graduation from Harvard Law School, Mr. Janis served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. For 32 years, he managed Janis, Schuelke & Wechsler, one of Washington's premier white collar criminal law firms. Admitted to practice in Washington, D.C.; also admitted in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and the Supreme Court of the United States.Master, Edward Bennett Williams Inn of CourtSenior Counsel, the College of Master Advocates and BarristersVice Chair, White Collar Crime Committee of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL)Fellow, American Bar FoundationMember, ABA's Presidential Task Force on the Attorney-Client PrivilegePast Chair, Hearing Committee, Washington D.C. Bar's Board of Professional ResponsibilityPast Chair, Committee on Grievances of the U.S. District Court, District of ColumbiaWho's Who Legal: The International Who's Who of Business Crime Defence Lawyers, 2013The Best Lawyers in America, 1993-2014Super Lawyers, 2007-2014"Ensuring Employee Rights in Internal Investigations," ABA Human Rights Journal, Volume 36, Number 2, Spring 2009."DOJ's Latest Gambit," The National Law Journal, September 29, 2008."The McNulty Memorandum: Much Ado About Nothing." The Washington Lawyer, February 2007"Deputizing Company Counsel as Agents of the Federal Government: How Our Adversary System of Justice is Being Destroyed," The Washington Lawyer, March 2005. (Updated and Republished by The Cato Institute in 2008.)