04 Feb 2026
Corey Amundson rejoins King & Spalding as Partner in Washington, D.C.
"King & Spalding has hired Corey Amundson as a partner in its Special Matters and Government Investigations practice in Washington, D.C.; he will handle criminal, civil and regulatory investigations across energy, life sciences, technology, construction and financial services."
Amundson is a first-chair trial lawyer with more than two decades of public service as a career official at the U.S. Department of Justice under multiple administrations. He has tried over 20 federal jury trials, primarily involving complex corporate fraud and bribery and corruption, and has supervised more than 100 trials in over 20 federal districts across industry sectors including energy, life sciences/healthcare, technology and trade secrets, and financial services.
At Main Justice in Washington, D.C., Amundson served six years as Director and Chief Counsel of the Office of Professional Responsibility and then as Chief of the Public Integrity Section. He also held leadership roles at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Louisiana for more than fifteen years, including serving four years as Acting United States Attorney and First Assistant United States Attorney overseeing all civil and criminal litigation, and as Criminal Chief and DOJ’s Fifth Circuit representative advising on national criminal policies.
During his DOJ tenure he led multiple crisis response efforts and developed enforcement initiatives such as a healthcare fraud strike force, the Criminal Division Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program, a financial fraud task force focused on data-mining, a multi-agency initiative with the state attorney general to combat online sexual exploitation of children, and a violent criminal enterprises strike force. He also served as Executive Director of the National Center for Disaster Fraud, coordinated nationwide disaster fraud enforcement and policy, was a DOJ instructor for 20 years at venues including the National Advocacy Center and the FBI Academy, and was an Adjunct Law Professor at LSU teaching corporate and white-collar crime.
At King & Spalding, Amundson will represent companies and individuals in criminal, civil and regulatory investigations and litigation at the federal and state levels, and will conduct internal investigations, manage crisis matters and provide proactive compliance assessments across the energy, life sciences, technology, construction and financial services sectors.
Amundson originally began his private-sector career at King & Spalding in the same practice group before joining the Department of Justice in 2002. He clerked for Chief Judge Sarah Evans Barker of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana after earning his J.D. from Emory University School of Law and his B.A. from Indiana University.