Reem Sadik focuses her practice on white-collar criminal litigation, government investigations, corporate internal investigations, and compliance counseling. She has deep experience in both private practice and in government service.
Her clients include senior executives and Fortune 100 companies, and span across a broad array of industries including healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, media, and technology. Reem has experience in matters involving: life sciences criminal investigations; Congressional investigations; the False Claims Act; the Anti-Kickback Statute; financial crimes, and whistleblower cases. Her experience also includes fact development, witness preparation, motions practice, and document management issues.
Reem has worked in all three branches of the federal government. She worked in the Visits division of the Office of the Chief of Protocol in the US Department of State and in the Office of Majority Whip James Clyburn in the US House of Representatives. She also is a former law clerk to Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson of the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and Judge James R. Spencer of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Reem has been recognized repeatedly in different publications, including Super Lawyers: “Rising Stars” in the area of Criminal Defense: White Collar; Best Lawyers: “Ones to Watch;” and in Washington Life Magazine as one of Washington's most influential people under 40. Reem believes in the importance of pro bono work. She was awarded the John Nolan Award, Steptoe's highest internal honor for pro bono excellence, for successfully exonerating a client on death row in a case involving prosecutorial misconduct.