Timothy G. Lynch - Deputy General Counsel for Litigation & Enforcement
Timothy G. Lynch is the Deputy General Counsel for Litigation and Enforcement. Mr. Lynch has an extensive background in complex civil and criminal litigation and has investigated, litigated, and successfully tried numerous cases in federal and state courts.
Before joining the Department, Mr. Lynch was Assistant Chief Litigation Counsel at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where he litigated nationwide securities fraud enforcement actions. Before joining the SEC, Mr. Lynch served for seven years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, where he was a senior prosecutor in the Fraud and Public Corruption Section.
Mr. Lynch began his legal career as a law clerk to the Honorable Cornelia G. Kennedy of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and thereafter joined the Washington, D.C., law firm of Shea & Gardner.
Mr. Lynch is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches evidence, and the University of Virginia Law School, where he teaches white collar crime.
Mr. Lynch received his law degree from Georgetown, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Georgetown Law Journal. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester.