Allison D. Burroughs

Partner Seaport West
155 Seaport Boulevard
Boston, MA 02210 617-439-2684 Fax: 617-310-9684 aburroughs@nutter.com aburroughs@nutter.com V-card

Areas of focus: Government Investigations and White Collar Defense and Litigation

Allison D. Burroughs is a partner in the Litigation Department and a member of the Government Investigations and White Collar Crime practice group. She joined the firm from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston where she spent eight of her ten years with the Economic Crimes Unit, three of which were spent as the Office’s Senior Litigation Counsel. Prior to that, she spent an additional six years with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia. During her distinguished 16 years with the Department of Justice, Allison developed expertise in investigating sophisticated white collar and economic crimes, including intellectual property offenses, computer crimes, money laundering, mail and wire fraud, economic espionage, terrorism, telemarketing schemes, FCPA violations and complex RICO prosecutions. She is an accomplished courtroom lawyer and has successfully tried many federal cases to verdict. The Executive Office for United States Attorneys awarded Allison three Director's Awards for Superior Performance as an Assistant United States Attorney for significant prosecutions in the areas of computer crime, international money laundering and organized crime.

At the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston, Allison initiated and supervised the computer crime and intellectual property section and managed an outreach program that educated individuals and businesses on preventing and responding to technology related crimes and threats.

Allison’s practice at Nutter focuses on representing individuals and companies in cases and investigations involving federal, state and local law enforcement, including witnesses in grand jury investigations, third party witnesses, targets and defendants. She also represents companies involved in complex litigation that want to be represented by a lawyer with extensive trial experience. Much of her practice focuses on the life sciences industry, with particular emphasis on off-label and related prosecutions.

Allison's representattive transactions include:

Representing twenty plus engineers involved with complex civil and criminal litigation arising from a major Boston construction project
Representing a major pharmaceutical company and numerous employees of other pharma companies in various off-label investigations
Successfully negotiating the dismissal of federal felony charges against an individual charged with offenses arising from a large scale immigration raid
Defending an individual charged with perjury
Defending an international shipping company charged with environmental violations

Allison is a member of the Steering Committee for the Criminal Justice Section of the Boston Bar Association and has moderated and participated as a panel member for numerous Bar Association events, including on topics such as computer crime, sentencing, health care and general criminal litigation. She has spoken on behalf of other local organizations, including Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, industry groups and law enforcement agencies, and taught numerous classes and courses for the Department of Justice, at the National Advocacy Center, and elsewhere on these same topics, as well as money laundering, basic advocacy skills and terrorism. At the behest of the Department of Justice, Allison traveled to Moscow and Siberia where she spent a week instructing Russian prosecutors and investigators on computer crime and related intellectual property prosecutions.

For further information about Nutter’s Government Investigations and White Collar Defense practice, please visit our practice portal.

Allison D. Burroughs : Attorneys : Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP