Ted Kornobis is a partner in the White Collar Defense and Investigations group in the firm's Washington, DC office. His practice focuses on defending complex civil and white collar criminal litigation, helping clients navigate government investigations and enforcement actions, and conducting sensitive internal investigations. He also represents clients in private litigation and provides counsel on corporate governance and compliance matters.
Ted has deep experience representing individuals and companies before state and federal courts, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), FINRA, the Department of Transportation, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and other government agencies and regulators. In addition to defending litigation against the government, Ted has successfully dissuaded government agencies from pursuing enforcement actions against his clients.
The investigations and litigation that Ted handles for clients touch on potential regulatory, civil, or criminal exposure across a range of issues, including federal and state fraud statutes, the federal securities laws, the False Claims Act (FCA), environmental laws, and anti-money laundering (AML) regulations under the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). His litigation practice includes qui tam actions, class action and shareholder derivative lawsuits, agency rulemaking challenges, and white collar disputes.
Ted is actively involved in the community. His pro bono work has covered housing, civil rights, public benefits, child custody, and other issues. He serves as an officer and on the board of a non-profit organization that provides new and used clothing for the homeless population in the Washington, DC region. In that role, he co-leads the organization’s annual city-wide clothing drive, which collects and distributes thousands of bags of clothing each year to dozens of shelters.
