Lisa Miller

LISA MILLER focuses her practice on white collar criminal defense, internal and government investigations, compliance matters, healthcare enforcement and litigation, and crisis management. She represents companies and individuals in a wide range of industries and has obtained significant victories for clients in and out of court.

Prior to joining Sidley, Lisa spent more than a decade at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), where she held several senior leadership positions, tried more than a dozen federal criminal cases before juries, and spearheaded the resolution of more than 35 corporate criminal cases.

Lisa served across political administrations and most recently, was a Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the DOJ’s Criminal Division, the third highest rank in the Division. As Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Lisa oversaw the DOJ Criminal Division’s Fraud Section and Appellate Section. In this role, Lisa was responsible for critical decision-making in some of the DOJ’s highest-profile white collar and cross-border matters against corporations and individuals, including FCPA, trade fraud, securities fraud, and health care fraud cases. She managed a team of more than 210 attorneys tasked with litigating and investigating complex matters in jurisdictions across the country, often in partnership with U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and other federal and state agencies. Prior to her appointment as Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Lisa served in top career leadership roles in the Fraud Section’s two largest litigating units, including as Chief of the Market Integrity and Major Frauds Unit and as Principal Assistant Deputy Chief of the Health Care Fraud Unit. Before that, Lisa was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida in Miami and a Trial Attorney in the Fraud Section’s Health Care Fraud Unit based in Washington, D.C.