Todd Lawson

About Todd Lawson

Prosecutor in the areas of white-collar crime, state-level election and campaign finance offenses, political corruption, gambling enforcement, computer crime, identity theft, counterfeit document manufacturing, and alien smuggling.Selected as the 20••••03 National Association of Attorneys General Cybercrime fellow. Worked for seven months at the US Department of Justice Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section in Washington, DC, on cases and issues involving state criminal powers under the USA Patriot Act, international computer crime investigations, phishing and hacking.Attorney of the Year for the AGO Criminal Division for 2006.Published in the Mississippi Law Journal, Volume 76, Number 3 as a participant in a panel discussion on \"The Decision to Prosecute\" during the 2006 NAAG conference on Internet Victimization.Specialties: Digital evidence, computer search and seizure, identity theft methods, distribution of counterfeit identification documents, state criminal justice interaction with the federal immigration bureaucracy, election law.

Experience

1. Senior Litigation Counsel

   Arizona Attorney General's Office

   Oct 2019 — Present · Phoenix, AZ, US

   Prosecuting white-collar fraud cases in the Fraud & Special Prosecutions Section of the Criminal Division. Assigned to the Election Integrity Unit handling criminal matters related to candidates, voting, and the conduct of elections.

Education

• Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University

  Doctor of Law - JD

• American University

  BA, Communications, Legal Institutions, Economics and Government

  1992 — 1996

Skills

• Criminal Law
• Legal Writing
• Litigation
• Government
• Criminal Justice
• Fraud
• Courts
• Cybercrime
• Trials
• Election Law
• Prosecution
• Electronic Evidence
• Identity Theft
• Intellectual Property
• Legal Research
• Public Policy
• Research
• Public Speaking
• Fraud Investigations