Boies Schiller Flexner Hires Former D.C. Federal Prosecutor

Boies Schiller Flexner, following the departure of several lawyers, said Monday it hired Kenya Davis, a former assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, as a partner in the global investigations white collar group.

Davis will focus her practice on issues such as human trafficking as governments increasingly require businesses to disclose their efforts to address the issue in their operations and supply chains.

Her hire “strengthens the firm’s compliance capabilities on social and governance issues, particularly with respect to the clients’ labor forces,” the firm said in a statement.

The hire comes weeks after the disclosure that more than a dozen lawyers were leaving the London office of the firm that famed litigator David Boies founded more than two decades ago with Jonathan Schiller and Don Flexner.

The departures included former managing partner Natasha Harrison and several U.K. litigators who have represented Barclays Plc, ING Bank NV, and Siemens AG, among others.

Davis has been lead counsel in 35 jury trials and 15 bench trials and has handled over 100 grand jury investigations and more than a dozen appeals, Boies Schiller said.

She was co-chair of the D.C. Human Trafficking Task Force, a group of senior federal and local law enforcement officials, government agency leaders, and non-profit organization executives. The group worked to increase the prosecution of traffickers, provide comprehensive services to victims, and coordinate anti-trafficking efforts in the Washington area.

Boies Schiller “is a versatile, trial-ready firm handling the most high-stakes matters, and, importantly, it is already meaningfully engaged in anti-trafficking work,” Davis said in the statement.