Event: New Legal Tools to Combat Emerging Foreign Threats
Date: Rescheduled for Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Time: 12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m.
Location: Belo Mansion, 2101 Ross Ave., Dallas, TX 75201
CLE Credit: CLE credit is pending

Carter Burwell is litigation counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Debevoise & Plimpton.  His practice focuses on white collar criminal defense, government investigations and internal investigations, and national security matters.  Prior to Debevoise, he served as Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Finance Intelligence, Chief Counsel to U.S. Senator John Cornyn, and Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of New York and Eastern District of Virginia prosecuting national security and international crimes.

Earlier on in his career, Mr. Burwell served as a law clerk to U.S. District Court Judge John Gleeson, now a Debevoise litigation partner, before going on to clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit for the Hon. Judge Karen Henderson.  Mr. Burwell was also a litigation associate at another international law firm.

Mr. Burwell received his J.D. from the University Virginia School of Law in 2002, an M.Phil from the University of Cambridge in 1998, and his B.A. from Columbia College in 1996.