Joshua B. Carpenter is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He currently practices in the firm’s Litigation Department and is a member of the Appellate & Constitutional Law and White Collar Defense & Investigations Practice Groups.
Mr. Carpenter has substantial experience representing clients in white collar investigations involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) and U.S. trade sanctions laws. In addition to this investigative work, Mr. Carpenter participated extensively in the FCPA compliance monitorship of Statoil ASA.
Mr. Carpenter also has significant civil litigation experience, focused particularly on post-trial and appellate representations, including presenting oral argument to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit while he was a student in the Appellate Litigation Clinic at the Georgetown University Law Center.
Before joining the firm, Mr. Carpenter served as a law clerk to Judge M. Blane Michael of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit during the 2007-2008 court term. Prior to that, he worked as a litigation associate for Covington & Burling LLP. In 2006, Mr. Carpenter received his law degree magna cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center, where he served as an Executive Articles Editor for The Georgetown Law Journal. Mr. Carpenter graduated summa cum laude from Marshall University in 2003 with a B.A. in Political Science and Economics and was a member of the university’s Society of Yeager Scholars.
Mr. Carpenter is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Virginia, District of Columbia, and before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.