ABOUT
David Deitch is the resident partner in Harris, St. Laurent & Chaudhry’s Washington DC office. He is a renowned trial attorney who has tried more than 100 jury trials to verdict in federal and state courts around the nation with an overwhelming record of success. Mr. Deitch was an Assistant United States’ Attorney for the District of Columbia (1999-2003), and then served in the Counterterrorism Section in the National Security Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (2003-2007). In that position, he was the Regional Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council Coordinator for the Western Region, responsible for coordinating counterterrorism investigations and prosecutions for 17 US Attorney’s Offices. Mr. Deitch was lead counsel on two of the Department of Justice’s most prominent counterterrorism trials and was the Department’s Domestic Terrorism Coordinator responsible for nationwide coordination of domestic terrorism investigations and prosecutions. In 2004, he was awarded the Assistant Attorney General’s Award for Advancing National Security. Prior to joining the Department of Justice, Mr. Deitch served as a prosecutor in Robert Morgenthau’s Manhattan District Attorney’s Office (1992-1995), and in the Office of Independent Counsel (1998-1999). He graduated from Brown University, with honors, in 1985, and received his law degree from New York University in 1988.
