Erin Brown Jones

Erin Brown Jones is a partner at Latham & Watkins and Co-Deputy Office Managing Partner of the Washington, DC office. She advises clients on white collar defense, government investigations, regulatory enforcement, proactive compliance, and related litigation. Her practice focuses on DOJ and SEC enforcement, anti-corruption matters, cross-border investigations, congressional inquiries, workplace misconduct, and anti-discrimination issues. She represents companies and other clients facing sensitive government, compliance, and internal investigative matters.

Erin earned a JD, magna cum laude, from Notre Dame Law School, an MA from the University of Chicago, and a BSFS from Georgetown University. Her academic background supports a practice that combines legal analysis, public policy, international issues, and complex regulatory work. Before joining private practice, she held fellowships and roles involving the Department of Justice, Department of Defense, Congress, and AmeriCorps, adding government-focused perspective to her legal training.

Erin handles domestic and cross-border investigations involving the DOJ, SEC, CFPB, DEA, and other regulators. She conducts internal investigations involving harassment, discrimination, retaliation, fraud, theft, insider trading, and company policy concerns. Her compliance work includes risk assessments, policies, training, monitoring, and program enhancement. She advises on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, financings, and capital markets transactions, including pre-acquisition diligence, post-acquisition assessments, auditing, and integration support.

Erin Brown Jones is admitted in the District of Columbia and has received current recognition for white collar, investigations, compliance, and FCPA work. Her practice combines government-facing advocacy, internal investigations, corporate compliance, transactional diligence, and complex litigation. She helps clients manage enforcement risk, respond to investigations, strengthen compliance systems, and address sensitive workplace or business conduct issues while coordinating with boards, auditors, experts, local counsel, and cross-border teams.

Law Office Affiliations

• Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP
• Member, District of Columbia Bar

Licensed State

• District of Columbia

Education

• Notre Dame Law School
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• University of Chicago
  Master of Arts (MA)
• Georgetown University
  BSFS

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