Highlights
The team handles matters involving export controls (EAR and ITAR), economic sanctions, tariff and trade remedies, Customs compliance, foreign investment reviews, and national security‑related enforcement actions. Our international trade team works on cutting‑edge regulatory issues affecting global commerce, national security, and emerging technologies, providing associates with meaningful responsibility and long‑term career development.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Washington, DC |
| Industry | Legal Services |
| Company Size | 1,500 to 1,999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1979 |
| Website | http://lewisbrisbois.com/ |
Description
Overview
Lewis Brisbois, an Am Law 100 firm, is looking for an International Trade Associate Attorney with 3-7 years of experience for its Washington, DC office.
Lewis Brisbois' International Trade, Export, Import & Investment Controls & National Security practice advises U.S. and multinational companies on the full spectrum of cross‑border regulatory obligations. The team handles matters involving export controls (EAR and ITAR), economic sanctions, tariff and trade remedies, Customs compliance, foreign investment reviews, and national security‑related enforcement actions. The practice regularly supports clients in aerospace, defense, technology, manufacturing, and other sectors where global operations intersect with complex regulatory regimes.
The Associate will play a key role in counseling clients on compliance strategies, risk assessments, licensing, internal investigations, and government inquiries. This position sits in our Washington, D.C. office, providing direct exposure to federal agencies and policy developments shaping international trade and national security law.
Key Responsibilities
- Advise clients on export control compliance, including EAR and ITAR classifications, licensing, technology transfers, and voluntary disclosures.
- Support matters involving OFAC sanctions, tariff classifications, Section 301/232 issues, and Customs enforcement.
- Assist with internal investigations, audits, and responses to agency inquiries from BIS, DDTC, OFAC, CBP, and related authorities.
- Draft legal memoranda, compliance policies, training materials, and regulatory filings.
- Monitor and analyze developments in U.S. and international trade policy, including national security‑driven regulatory changes.
- Collaborate with colleagues across practice groups to address cross‑disciplinary issues involving corporate transactions, government contracts, cybersecurity, and foreign investment.
Qualifications
- 3-7 years of substantive international trade experience, with a strong focus on export controls and ITAR.
- Additional experience in sanctions, tariffs, Customs compliance, or trade enforcement is strongly preferred.
- Excellent academic credentials, with Law Review, journal experience, or a judicial clerkship considered a plus.
- Exceptional writing, research, and analytical skills.
- Ability to manage complex regulatory matters and communicate effectively with sophisticated clients.
- Admission to practice in the District of Columbia or eligibility to waive in.
Why Lewis Brisbois
The firm offers the resources of a national platform with a collaborative, entrepreneurial environment. Our international trade team works on cutting‑edge regulatory issues affecting global commerce, national security, and emerging technologies, providing associates with meaningful responsibility and long‑term career development.
We offer competitive compensation and, in addition, Lewis Brisbois offers a range of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and a 401(k) with employer match.
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About Company
Our national practice is sophisticated, multi-faceted and well-versed in current legal trends, while our individual state practices provide vast resources and knowledge of procedural and legal nuances. Lewis Brisbois offers legal practice in more than 35 specialties, and a multitude of sub-specialties associated with each practice area. Our attorneys have broad knowledge, expertise, and sensitivity to their clients’ unique needs. Through interaction among its practice groups, Lewis Brisbois provides a wide range of legal services to each client with a continuity of representation over multiple disciplines. We have built longstanding relationships with corporate and institutional clients based on our ability to provide comprehensive service on a national scale.
At Lewis Brisbois, diversity is an integral part of our firm culture and our daily life. We accomplish diversity not by committee or initiative, but through the true and committed practice of hiring the best people for the job and consistently rewarding excellence. The success of these policies is reflected in the fact that Lewis Brisbois has repeatedly received national recognition for its commitment to embracing diversity. Lewis Brisbois is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse group of talented lawyers and staff, and demonstrates that commitment through non-discriminatory hiring, retention and promotion policies. The diversity of the firm’s client base is matched by the diversity of our attorneys.
With offices from Los Angeles to New York, our attorneys reflect the communities in which they live. The firm’s culture has fostered a diverse group of professionals committed to promoting the best interests of our clients, our communities and the legal profession. We are committed to supporting diversity through new and ongoing relationships with minority and women-owned businesses.
Lewis Brisbois is known for its commitment to principled advocacy, an unflinching work ethic, and unyielding recognition of our duty to provide the highest level of service to our clients, who choose us because we take the time to understand their business interests and philosophies. We have developed sophisticated proprietary risk evaluation and litigation management processes that many of our clients have incorporated into their business practices, and we help them manage and defend claims and litigation. As a result, they are avoiding and reducing losses that impact their bottom line.
Our practice includes pre-suit counseling and problem solving based on a structured and accurate analysis of likely outcome. We know our clients’ objectives are often best served by a pre-suit resolution, and we are often judged by the advice and counsel we provide toward that end. However, when trial is the answer and in the client’s best interest, no law firm in this country understands and better executes a trial strategy than Lewis Brisbois. We are truly client driven and result oriented.