Kelly A. Moore

Partner

Kelly A. Moore is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Litigation Practice. Ms. Moore represents corporations and individuals in white collar criminal investigations, internal investigations, and related civil litigation. She has represented clients before the Department of Justice, various United States Attorney's Offices, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the New York Attorney General's Office. Recent representations include matters involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, stock options backdating, money-laundering, antitrust, Medicaid/Medicare and anti-kickback statutes, embezzlement, and fraud.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Ms. Moore served in the Department of Justice for 11 years as a federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of New York, most recently as the chief of the Violent Crimes and Terrorism Section. As a trial lawyer, Ms. Moore has handled many complex and high-profile matters, and successfully tried over 20 cases involving a wide range of federal crimes, including mail and wire fraud, money laundering, terrorist financing, and racketeering.

As chief of the Violent Crimes and Terrorism Section, Ms. Moore led the team of prosecutors responsible for the investigation and prosecution of the district's terrorism and terrorist financing cases, as well as RICO prosecutions of nontraditional organized crime groups. Her experience includes handling international law issues, including extradition, extraterrorial use of federal law, and the USA Patriot Act.

Ms. Moore has been recognized as one of the country's top terrorism/terrorist financing prosecutors by the DOJ and law enforcement officials, and was personally commended by the President for her contributions to the antiterrorist prosecutions. For her successful prosecution in the trial of U.S. v. Al-Moayad, Ms. Moore received the Attorney General's John Marshall Award for Trial of Litigation, the DOJ's highest honor for the trial of a case. The Al-Moayad case, which led to the conviction of a prominent Yemeni cleric and others for providing financing to the Hamas and Al Qaeda terrorist organizations, was one of the most sensitive and high-profile terrorism cases tried by the DOJ in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. She also received the Director's Award for Superior Performance by an assistant U.S. attorney in 1997 for the trial of a major racketeering case and again in 2003 for prosecuting nearly 20 members of a money-laundering organization.

Ms. Moore is admitted to practice in New York.