Nexsen Pruet Expands White Collar Criminal Defense Practice

Devon Riley Joins Firm’s Charleston Office

CHARLESTON, SC – Devon Turner Riley has joined the Charleston office as Special Counsel. Riley will practice with firm’s Litigation Group, with her primary focus on white collar criminal defense.  She will also counsel businesses and professionals on internal investigations and corporate compliance.

“We spend much of our time counseling clients on how to stay out of trouble in the first place,” said Mark Moore, a former federal prosecutor who works closely with Riley. “Adding a lawyer with Devon’s credentials will give our white collar team additional depth and allow us to continue to provide zealous representation and effective advice to the businesses and professionals we represent.”

Prior to joining Nexsen Pruet, Riley worked as an associate at Morgan Lewis & Bockius in Philadelphia, in the white collar group where she split her time between investigating qui tam cases in the healthcare and IT industries and ensuring corporate compliance in the financial services industry. On the litigation side, she defended clients and conducted extensive internal investigations on qui tam and False Claims Act cases. On the compliance side, she closely counseled national banks through the 2010 mortgage foreclosure crisis and assisted in drafting internal policies to ensure regulatory compliance.  Riley used her experience as a former sexual assault prosecutor to draft internal policies for schools and community organizations to ensure compliance with evolving mandatory reporting laws.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Riley was an Assistant District Attorney for Philadelphia County for six years, handling crimes against children, including physical and sexual abuse, and cases involving expert testimony in medicine and forensic science.  While in that position, she tried more than 25 jury trials to verdict in the Court of Common Pleas and more than 100 bench trials in both the Court of Common Pleas and the Municipal Court.

Riley is the newest addition to Nexsen Pruet’s growing White-Collar Criminal Defense team, which is led by Billy Wilkins, former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.  The White Collar Criminal Defense team also includes three former Assistant U.S. Attorneys Mark Moore (Columbia), Dan Boyce (Raleigh) and James Galyean (Greenville) as well as Kirsten Small, an experienced appellate attorney in both state and federal courts and Andrew Mathias and Burl Williams, both former law clerks to justices of the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Nexsen Pruet, LLC

Nexsen Pruet, LLC is one of the largest law firms in the Carolinas, with more than 190 attorneys and offices in Columbia, Charleston, Greenville, Hilton Head, and Myrtle Beach, S.C. as well as Charlotte, Greensboro, and Raleigh, N.C.  Founded in 1945, Nexsen Pruet provides a broad range of legal services to the business community and represents companies and other entities in local, state, national, and international venues.  For further information, see www.nexsenpruet.com.