On My Side 2022 Honoree
The Advocate of the Year Award honors an individual who has shown extraordinary commitment to advocacy to assert trafficking survivors’ rights. Courtney Trombly, a partner at King & Spalding LLP, is this year’s honoree. We are delighted to present Courtney with this award in recognition of her trauma-informed and zealous advocacy for a minor sex trafficking survivor. Courtney devoted countless hours to this case, supporting the minor trafficking surivor as her pro bono advocate. Courtney’s dedicated representation included multiple trips across the country to visit the survivor at the residential facility where she lived at the time. Courtney built a relationship of trust with this survivor, walking the child through this difficult and confusing process. Courtney’s pro bono representation gave this trafficking survivor the confidence to provide powerful testimony in the criminal case against her trafficker. Courtney’s skilled and tireless advocacy bolstered the survivor’s strength and aided her recovery.
About the Honoree
Courtney Trombly focuses on white-collar criminal defense including anti-corruption investigations and compliance counseling, False Claims Act investigations and litigation, and cross-border investigations and disputes. As a partner in King & Spalding LLP‘s Special Matters and Investigations practice, Ms. Trombly represents clients worldwide in a variety of high-stakes matters.
Ms. Trombly is experienced in conducting internal investigations, advising clients across the globe on compliance assessment, counseling and remediation, and defending them before domestic and foreign government enforcement authorities, including the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission. In white-collar criminal defense, she has specific expertise and experience in anti-corruption, False Claims Act, and compliance-related matters.
Prior to joining King & Spalding LLP, Ms. Trombly served for more than three years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Middle District of Tennessee, where she was part of the Criminal Division’s White Collar and Corporate Fraud Unit. In that role, she was lead counsel on dozens of investigations into white-collar crime, including public corruption, money laundering and securities, bank, ERISA, mail, wire, healthcare and bankruptcy frauds, and also prosecuted counterfeiting, computer, narcotics, child exploitation and environmental crimes. On several occasions, she acted as lead counsel on briefs and oral arguments before the Courts of Appeals for the Second and Sixth Circuits.
Before that, Ms. Trombly was a Captain in the United States Marine Corps. As a defense counsel at Camp Lejeune, she represented hundreds of Marines and sailors in criminal courts-martial and administrative proceedings. She also served as lead counsel in bench and jury trials, and obtained numerous outright acquittals for her clients. For her service, she was awarded the 2005 USMC Defense Counsel of the Year Award, Eastern Region, and also received the Navy Achievement Medal.