Name: Carol Elder Bruce
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Carol Elder Bruce is a litigator whose practice focuses on white collar criminal defense and complex civil litigation. She represents individuals and corporations in criminal grand jury investigations, and in criminal and civil trials and appeals. She also represents clients in hearings and proceedings before the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives, in administrative proceedings within federal agencies, and in the conduct of internal corporate investigations.

Ms. Bruce has been appointed to a number of public service positions in her career. She served as Special Counsel to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics in the investigation of matters concerning Senator John Ensign. Earlier, Ms. Bruce served as the Independent Counsel appointed by a special panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to investigate matters concerning Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt. She previously served as the Deputy Independent Counsel in the investigation of matters concerning Attorney General Edwin Meese and also was an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia for 10 years, where she was lead counsel in more than 115 jury trials and managed the grand jury investigations and presentations and appeals of more than 100 additional cases.

Ms. Bruce has been Martindale-Hubbell^{^{^®}} AV^{^{^®}} Preeminent™ 5.0 out of 5, for 25 years. She was named in June 2011 as one of ten “Champions” by the editors of The National Law Journal. Ms. Bruce has consistently been ranked by Chambers USA among the top U.S. lawyers in Litigation: White Collar Crime and Government Investigations. Benchmark Litigation has repeatedly listed her as a "white collar litigation star" and as one of the "pre-eminent litigators practicing in the U.S." Likewise, she has been regularly ranked by Best Lawyers and Super Lawyers as a top white collar criminal defense attorney and a top commercial/business litigator, with Best Lawyers also ranking her as a top "bet-the-company" case lawyer. Among other additional high rankings, Ms. Bruce has been consistently ranked by Washingtonian Magazine in the top one percent of white collar criminal defense attorneys in Washington, DC since 2004. Ms. Bruce is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers (inducted in 2001). Fellowship is extended by invitation only to the top 1 percent of the trial bar in the U.S. and Canada. She was the recipient of a 2007 Beacon of Justice Awards from the National Legal Aid & Defender Association for her pro bono representation of Guantanamo Bay detainees and a recipient of one of the Frederick Douglass Human Rights Award from the Southern Center for Human Rights.

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