Lawrence Finder, Partner
Haynes and Boone
Larry Finder has extensive experience in government investigations, corporate compliance counseling, federal grand jury, trial practice, internal investigations and business crimes. He became U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas in February 1993.
Recently, Larry was appointed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to investigate and prosecute a U.S. Justice Department complaint filed against a sitting U.S. District Judge from New Orleans. He prosecuted the case before the Judicial Council of the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans, and the trial record was subsequently referred to the U.S. House of Representatives for impeachment consideration. The House impeached the judge, followed by a trial in the U.S. Senate. The judge was unanimously convicted and removed from office on December 8, 2010.
Larry’s reputation as one of the top attorneys in his field has been bolstered by his oft-cited studies on deferred prosecution agreements and non-prosecution agreements co-authored with fellow Haynes and Boone Partner Ryan McConnell. He has also been recognized as one of the top FCPA lawyers working outside of Washington, D.C. by prestigious insider news organizations, including Main Justice. In 2011, Larry was selected as a Top Gun in the Ethisphere Institute’s Attorneys Who Matter for his work at “the top of the ethics and compliance world.”
Larry is committed to public service outside of his law practice. He was recently selected to chair the Harris County Public Defender Board of Directors, and was also selected for a three-year appointment to the Practitioners Advisory Group (PAG), a standing advisory group of the United States Sentencing Commission. Larry currently holds appointments on the Board of Directors for the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), the Corporate Compliance Center Advisory Board of South Texas College of Law, and is once again on the Board of Managers for the Harris County Hospital District (he previously served from 1995-2003, and chaired from 1999-2003). He has also served on the Board of Trustees for Crime Stoppers-Houston (2007 to 2009), and on the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee for The Council on Alcohol and Drugs Houston (from 2004 to 2006).
