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Simon A. Latcovich

Simon Latcovich is an attorney at Williams & Connolly in Washington DC. His litigation practice focuses on white collar criminal and corporate litigation. Illustrative matters include the representation of Senator Ted Stevens against federal criminal charges, a high-ranking CIA official in an investigation regarding detainee interrogations, heirs in a challenge to a multi-billion dollar estate plan, and a hedge fund in a government investigation. Before joining Williams & Connolly, Simon was a clerk for Judge Thomas B. Griffith on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He is also a co-author of Federal Criminal Discovery, the leading treatise on discovery in federal criminal matters.

Prior to his legal career, Simon was a Surface Warfare Office in the United States Navy. While serving on a destroyer, he facilitated launch of twenty-five Tomahawk missiles in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Simon also led a small, armed boarding team onto merchant ships off the coasts of Somalia, Yemen, and Syria in support of intelligence and law enforcement operations for Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Simon is a 1998 graduate of the United States Naval Academy (B.S. Economics), a 2000 graduate of Oxford University (M. Phil. Economics), and a 2006 graduate of Georgetown University (Juris Doctor). He resides in Arlington, Virginia, with his wife Meghan and their kids Maddie and Jack.