Amelia R Medina

Amelia Medina focuses on criminal, civil, and congressional disputes in life sciences, healthcare, defense, technology, financial services, insurance, energy, artificial intelligence, government contracting, and other regulated industries. As a partner in King & Spalding's Chambers Band 1-ranked practice in Corporate Crime & Investigations, Amelia advises major corporations and executives on national security and law enforcement trends affecting their corporate strategy and risk.  Amelia also litigates and conducts investigations in the areas of white collar criminal defense, civil fraud, and False Claims Act and qui tam whistleblower suits. 

Prior to rejoining King & Spalding, Amelia served as Deputy Chief of Staff to the Director of the FBI, and as Senior Counsel to the U.S. Deputy Attorney General (DAG) at the Department of Justice.  She also served as a federal criminal prosecutor in the Financial Crimes & Public Corruption Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia.

At the FBI, Amelia worked on priority domestic and international investigations in the areas of: complex financial fraud, healthcare fraud, procurement fraud and collusion, trade sanctions and export controls, nation-state-sponsored theft of proprietary corporate data, cyber and security-related critical incidents, official corruption, and issues before the National Security Council.

As Senior Counsel in the Office of the Deputy Attorney General from 2017-2018, Amelia managed a department-wide portfolio of corporate enforcement priorities, compliance initiatives, and case-specific issues arising across Main Justice divisions and U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, as well as multi-agency efforts with SEC, CFTC, the Federal Reserve, DHS, HHS, FDA, and various agency Offices of Inspector General.  Amelia served as the first Chair of the Corporate Enforcement & Accountability Working Group, a leadership committee responsible for guiding the DOJ’s strategy and policies to combat corporate criminal and civil fraud nationwide. She played an integral part in the development and implementation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Corporate Enforcement Policy and served as the principal staff counselor to the DAG on approvals of corporate compliance monitorships.

Amelia is experienced in steering responses to oversight requests by Republican-controlled congressional committees in the U.S. House and Senate.  She accompanied and advised the FBI Director at “members only” classified briefings to the full U.S. Congress.  In private practice, Amelia advises corporations and nonprofit organizations about congressional inquiries and prepares business leaders to give testimony at hearings before federal and state legislative bodies.

Amelia is a member of the invitation-only Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court for white collar practitioners in Washington, D.C.  

Amelia graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University, with a degree from the School of Public & International Affairs.  She holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and was a member of The Yale Law Journal.