Amy Craig

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Amy Craig is a founding partner of Ehrlich & Craig LLP. Her practice focuses on defending individuals in enforcement actions brought by the Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, other regulatory authorities and collateral civil proceedings. She also regularly conducts internal investigations on behalf of special committees, audit committees and other key stakeholders.

Prior to founding Ehrlich & Craig LLP, Amy was a partner at Ramsey & Ehrlich LLP. She has represented individuals at all levels of the federal courts, in state actions, and grand jury investigations. She has been recognized by Chambers as being “extremely intelligent, very diligent, thoughtful and a strong advocate for clients” and praised for being “cool under pressure” and her ability to “easily synthesize complex regulatory and technical issues to provide thoughtful counsel to her clients.”

Amy currently serves on the Criminal Justice Act panel for the Northern District of California and as a member of the District’s Criminal Rules and Practice Committee. She is also a member of the Executive Committee for the Criminal Justice Section of the Bar Association of San Francisco and a Board Member of Project Avary, a non-profit dedicated to providing support and opportunities to the children of incarcerated parents.

Since 2016 Amy has taught an upper-level seminar, “White Collar Crime,” at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law, where she received her J.D. While at Berkeley Law, Amy won the Jamison Award for Scholarship and Advocacy and the McBaine Honors Moot Court Competition.

She received her undergraduate degree from Boston College, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Before attending law school, Amy was a Teach for America corps member in New Orleans, Louisiana and taught middle school in Oakland, California.

Specialties: White Collar Criminal Defense; SEC Enforcement Defense; Corporate Internal Investigations; Regulatory Defense