Vice President, Americans for Prosperity
Partner, K&L Gates LLP
David Rybicki is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of K&L Gates LLP. He is a member of the investigations, enforcement, and white collar practice group.
David recently served in the Criminal Division of the U. S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., as Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General (2017) and Deputy Assistant Attorney General (2017-2020), the second- and third-highest ranking positions in the division. In these roles, David led the investigation, prosecution, and coordination of nationally significant matters and initiatives involving corporate fraud, the Bank Secrecy Act, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), cybercrime and cryptocurrencies, OFAC sanctions enforcement, transnational organized crime, healthcare fraud, consumer fraud, immigration fraud, civil and criminal RICO, public corruption, human rights, labor racketeering, and gaming law.
Prior to joining the Criminal Division, David served as Counselor to the Attorney General and worked on the Justice Department’s top criminal enforcement initiatives. This work included revision of the Department’s corporate enforcement policies, extension of the FCPA Pilot Program, “Going Dark” and other significant cybersecurity policy matters, Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties, marijuana enforcement and regulatory policy, and creation of the Department's new civil asset forfeiture policies and regulatory guidelines.
In 2018, David was appointed to serve as an ex officio member of the United States Sentencing Commission, where he represented the Justice Department with respect to all aspects of federal sentencing law and policy, including amendments to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for corporate fraud and other white collar crimes.
Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Center on the Structural Constitution, Texas A&M University School of Law
Katherine Mims Crocker is a Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Center on the Structural Constitution at Texas A&M University School of Law. She is also an affiliate of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center. Her scholarship focuses on federal courts, civil-rights litigation, constitutional law, and state and local-government law. She has also taught courses in civil procedure, property, and judicial decision making. Professor Crocker has published papers (or has work forthcoming) in leading journals including the Duke Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Virginia Law Review, and Washington University Law Review.
Before joining Texas A&M, Professor Crocker was on the faculty at William & Mary Law School and completed a fellowship at Duke Law School. She also practiced at McGuireWoods LLP in Richmond, Virginia, where she concentrated on appellate litigation. Professor Crocker clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States and Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. She received her law degree from the University of Virginia, where she graduated first in her class and was an Articles Development Editor on the Virginia Law Review. She earned her undergraduate degree from Harvard University cum laude.
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