Stephen Hauss
Partner at Quinn Emanuel
- Role
- Partner at Quinn Emanuel
- Location
- Washington, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Stephen Hauss
Stephen Hauss is a partner in Quinn Emanuel’s Washington, D.C. office and a leading practitioner in white collar defense and national security matters. He represents corporations, financial institutions, and senior executives in high-stakes government investigations, enforcement actions, and complex litigation worldwide. His practice covers the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, OFAC sanctions, the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), money laundering, financial fraud, public corruption, and other cross-border enforcement issues across the United States, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa.Mr. Hauss has been repeatedly recognized as a leading practitioner in white collar defense and investigations. His honors include Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Global Entertainment, Sports & Media Lawyers (Litigation – White Collar, Investigations, Sports, 2025) and its 500 Global Leaders in Crisis Management (2025), as well as Lexology’s Index: Investigations – Future Leaders (2025). He has been named to Who’s Who Legal in multiple categories, including Investigations – Future Leaders (2018–2021, 2023–2024), Investigations – Commercial Litigation (2021), and Litigation – Future Leaders (2019–2020). Earlier in his career, he was recognized by Global Investigations Review’s “40 Under 40” (2017), Law360 as a Rising Star in White Collar (2016), and The American Lawyer as a Transatlantic Rising Star (2016).Prior to joining the firm in 2007, Mr. Hauss clerked for the Honorable F. Dennis Saylor IV of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. From 2009 to 2011, he was a prosecutor in the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. As a deputy district attorney, he handled thousands of misdemeanor and felony cases, tried numerous jury trials to verdict, and conducted more than one hundred preliminary hearings.
Experience
Partner
Jun 2018 — Present · Washington, DC, US
Education
UCLA
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Political Science
1999 — 2003
Harvard Law School
Doctor of Law (JD), Law
2003 — 2006
Skills
- Trials
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Defense
- Jury Trials
- White Collar Criminal Defense
- Courts
- Corporate Law
- Business Litigation
- Trial Practice
- Fraud
- Commercial Litigation
- Fcpa
- Legal Writing
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