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Christine H. Chung Christine H. Chung Quinn Emanuel 51 Madison Avenue 22nd Floor New York New York 10010 work212-849-7000 christinechung@quinnemanuel.com Download vCard New York Office Tel: 212-849-7000 Fax: 212-849-7100 christinechung@quinnemanuel.com Practice Areas Appellate Practice Plaintiffs' Litigation Securities Litigation Structured Finance and Derivatives Litigation Transnational Litigation White Collar Defense and Internal Investigations Education Harvard Law School (J.D., magna cum laude, 1990) Yale University (B.A., summa cum laude, History, 1986) Phi Beta Kappa Prior Associations Yale Law School, Schell Center for International Human Rights: Visiting Lecturer and Senior Fellow, 2008-2009 Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Court: Senior Trial Attorney, 2004-2007 Acting Head of the Prosecution Division, 2004 Shearman & Sterling LLP: Counsel, 2003-2004 United States Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York: Assistant U.S. Attorney, Criminal Division, 1995 2003 Chief of Appeals, Criminal Division, 2001-2002 Recipient of Prosecutor of the Year Award for the Southern District of New York, 2002 (Federal Law Enforcement Foundation) Assistant, Civil Division, 1991-1995 Fordham University School of Law: Adjunct Associate Professor, Criminal Law, 2002 Adjunct Associate Professor, Legal Research and Writing, 1992-1995 Law Clerk to the Hon. Walter J. Cummings, United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, 1990-1991 Professional Activities Member, Advisory Group at the Brookings Institution on topic “U.S. Policy Towards International Justice.” Featured in an independent documentary about the International Criminal Court, entitled “The Reckoning," broadcast on PBS (July 2009). Admissions Member, The State Bar of New York; Member, The State Bar of Illinois; United States Court of Appeals: Second Circuit, Seventh Circuit; United States District Court: Southern District of New York Languages French	Send to a friend Biography Ms. Chung specializes in white-collar criminal defense and internal investigations, transnational matters, and complex business litigation. She has conducted numerous criminal and civil trials and has briefed and argued dozens of cases on appeal. For twelve years, from 1991 to 2003, Ms. Chung worked as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where she served in both the Criminal and Civil Divisions. While Chief of Criminal Appeals, in 2001 and 2002, she oversaw all criminal litigation of the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Ms. Chung's criminal trial experience includes a series of high-profile jury cases, including United States v. Don King, an insurance fraud prosecution against the boxing promoter and his company, and United States v. Neils Lauersen, in which a Park Avenue fertility doctor was convicted on fraud charges. As a civil lawyer for the government, from 1991 to 1995, she handled complex tax, bankruptcy, tort, labor, and environmental matters. In 2002, the Federal Law Enforcement Foundation awarded Ms. Chung the Prosecutor of the Year Award for the Southern District of New York. Ms. Chung's prior experience in private practice, from 2003 to 2004, included the representation of financial institutions and multinational corporations, including in cross-border internal investigations involving allegations of securities fraud and violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. More recently, Ms Chung spent several years in The Hague, working as a Senior Trial Attorney at the International Criminal Court ("ICC"). She investigated and prosecuted perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Darfur region of the Sudan, in Uganda, and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. During her tenure at the ICC, Ms. Chung was the highest-ranking American professional. Ms. Chung has taught at Yale Law School and Fordham University School of Law. She has lectured at the U.S. Department of Justice's National Advocacy Center and is a frequent speaker on the topic of international justice.

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