George Terwilliger is a senior partner at White & Case LLP and heads its Global White Collar Practice Group. His experience combines a distinguished public service career with a private practice record of client service to major companies and prominent individuals. He provides counsel in litigation, internal investigations and enforcement proceedings, especially those involving the US Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission and other primary enforcement agencies.

Mr. Terwilliger has represented energy, financial, telecommunication, healthcare and industrial companies in government investigations and in civil and criminal litigation. He has tried numerous cases in his career and has continued to appear for clients in numerous federal trial and appellate court proceedings over recent years. Mr. Terwilliger also has conducted corporate internal investigations and legal compliance reviews, including for boards and board committees, involving work in more than sixty countries in all regions of the world. His individual clients have included prominent business executives, media personalities, numerous lawyers and elected and appointed public officials. He has also served as special outside counsel for a Senate committee investigation of alleged vote fraud, counsel to an executive commission on gambling and informal advisor to government officials involved in enforcement and other proceedings involving political affairs. During the 2000 Florida election recount, Mr. Terwilliger was a leader of the Bush-Cheney legal effort. Mr. Terwilliger has been listed as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America and as a top tier white collar specialist.

In public service, Mr. Terwilliger served as a US presidential appointee in two administrations. He was appointed a United States Attorney by President Reagan, served as Deputy Attorney General, the number two official of the Department of Justice, and as Acting Attorney General in the George H.W. Bush Administration. He has ten years experience as a front-line federal prosecutor conducting investigations, trials and appellate proceedings. Highlights of his public service include his leadership in major cases, such as BCCI, an international banking scandal, where he led investigations to a comprehensive criminal and civil resolution involving over twenty-five parties in the United States and abroad. He had leadership responsibility in several domestic and international crises, including managing the federal response to massive civil unrest in Los Angeles, the rescue of federal officers held hostage in a prison takeover and addressing, through the National Security Council, massive Haitian migration to the United States. He was the senior Justice Department official on counter-terrorism during the 1991 Persian Gulf War and its representative to the National Security Council during the crisis and subsequent conflict. While a front line prosecutor, he had lead responsibility in significant white collar crime and terrorism matters.

Since entering private practice, Mr. Terwilliger has been regularly called upon to provide legal and policy advice and commentary to the government, Congress and private organizations concerning national security, terrorism and homeland defense, as well as other public policy and legal issues.

Bars and Courts
District of Columbia Bar
US Supreme Court
US Courts of Appeals for the Second, Fourth and District of Columbia Circuits
US Tax Court

Education
JD, Antioch School of Law, 1978
BA, Seton Hall University, 1973

Awards and Recognition
The Best Lawyers in America, White Collar
National Law Journal, 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America

Publications
"FCPA Internal Investigations – Worth It?," The National Law Journal, January 4, 2010
"The Financial Crisis," The National Law Journal, December 1, 2008
"Rebalance Enforcement," The National Law Journal, September 1, 2008
"Corrupt Payments Abroad," The National Law Journal, June 2, 2008
"Independent Investigations: Why, When and How to Make Them Work," Directors and Boards Boardroom Briefing, October 2, 2001, (co-authored with Darryl S. Lew)
"Under-Breaded Shrimp and Other High Crimes: Addressing the Over-Criminalization  of Commercial Regulation," American Criminal Law Review, Fall 2007
"Voluntary Disclosures," The National Law Journal, June 25, 2007
"Corporate Crisis: Considerations for Counsel Managing the Response to Investigations, Litigation, and Other Critical Corporate Events," National Legal Center for the Public Interest, January 18, 2007
"EU Data Protection Laws," The National Law Journal, May 22, 2006
"Privilege in Peril: Corporate Cooperation in The New Era of Government Investigations," Engage—The Journal of the Federalist Society's Practice Groups, March 2006 (co-authored with Darryl S. Lew)
"Acts of Subsidiaries," The National Law Journal, April 18, 2005
"Privilege in Jeopardy," The National Law Journal, February 9, 2004
"The War On Terrorism: Law Enforcement or National Security?" The Federalist Society: National Security White Papers, 2001

Speaking Engagements
"Fraud Risks in Emerging Markets," Compliance Week, New York City, NY, December 2008
"The SEC and the Financial Crisis of 2008," The Federalist Society National Lawyers Convention, Washington, DC, November 2008
"Bush v. Gore: Winner Take All Litigation on Center Stage," George Mason School of Law, Federalist Society Chapter, October 2008
"A Preview of the Supreme Court October 2008 Term," The Federalist Society, Washington, DC, October 2008
"FISA Litigation," PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Washington, DC, June 2008
"Off-Label Uses of Approved Drugs: Medicine, Law, and Policy—The Legal Environment From Federal Regulation and Enforcement," American Enterprise Institute Legal Center for the Public Interest, Washington, DC, May 2008
"The Corporate Monitor Role and Responsibilities in the Wake of New Guidelines and Impending Legislation," West Legalworks, a Thomson Reuters Business, April 2008
"Deferred Prosecution: Should Corporate Settlement Agreements Be Without Guidelines?" House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law Hearing, Washington, DC, March 2008

Languages
English

Citizenship
United States