Laura Colombell Marshall

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Laura is a partner in the firm’s nationally recognized Government Investigations and White Collar practice. She advises clients on a wide range of criminal, civil and regulatory enforcement matters. She has successfully defended companies and executives facing high stakes investigations, criminal exposure and reputational risk. She also advises on compliance issues and has extensive experience managing risks associated with corruption, money laundering and economic sanctions.

Laura is ranked in Chambers USA for white collar crime and government investigations in Virginia, and was named a National Law Journal Criminal Law Trailblazer and a Benchmark “Local Litigation Star.” She has been consistently recognized for her work by Global Investigations Review, including as one of the Top 100 Women in investigations “who are achieving great things in a competitive and notoriously tough area of law.”

Prior to joining McGuireWoods, Laura was the head of the white collar defense and internal investigations team for an AmLaw100 international firm. She also served for 15 years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, handling numerous federal jury trials and successfully arguing five cases before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. From 1999 to 2007, Laura served as a JAG Officer in the United States Army Reserve, which included an assignment to the Contract Appeals Division handling procurement fraud matters.