Elizabeth H. Goergen is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where she practices primarily in the areas of white collar criminal defense, corporate compliance, and internal investigations.
Ms. Goergen has experience advising multinational corporations on compliance with the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the U.K. Bribery Act, and other anti-corruption laws. She has conducted fieldwork in Latin America, Africa, Europe, and the United States, and she has represented individuals implicated in prosecutions by the U.S. Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission. Ms. Goergen also has participated in two government-mandated compliance Monitorships. Additionally, Ms. Goergen has experience in complex civil litigation, and her pro bono work focuses on issues of civil rights and immigration. Ms. Goergen is fluent in Spanish.
Ms. Goergen graduated from Georgetown University Law Center in 2008, where she was a Global Law Scholar and Institute for International Economic Law Fellow. In addition, she was an editor of the
Georgetown Journal of International Law and her note, "Women Workers in Mexico: Using the International Human Rights Framework to Achieve Labor Protection," was published there
in the summer of 2008. Ms. Goergen graduated
magna cum laude from Tufts University in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Spanish.