Lisa N. Umans

As a counsel in Crowell & Moring’s New York office and a member of the firm’s White Collar and Regulatory Enforcement group, Lisa has represented large institutional clients and individuals in federal and state regulatory and criminal investigations conducted by grand juries, congressional committees, and domestic and international law enforcement and regulatory agencies including the Department of Justice’s Criminal and Antitrust Divisions, U.S. Attorney’s Offices, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and various State Attorneys General.  Most recently, Lisa has assisted over fifty employees from three global financial institutions in connection with federal regulatory investigations into business-related electronic communications on employees’ personal devices.

Lisa also has a depth of experience in compliance monitorships.  Since 2019, Lisa has served as a key member of the office of the Independent Monitor of the New York City District Council of Carpenters and related Taft-Hartley benefit funds.  Since 2021, she has served as part of the Court-appointed federal monitor team for the United Autoworkers of America, overseeing the union’s historic union-wide referendum election and their first ever union-wide national mail-in ballot officer election.

In addition to her work on behalf of firm clients, Lisa is dedicated to helping ensure equal access to justice by providing pro bono counsel to indigent clients facing criminal prosecution as part of the Southern District of New York Criminal Justice Act panel.  For her service, she received Crowell’s George Bailey Pro Bono Award in 2021.  Lisa has also been recognized by Best Lawers in America as “One to Watch” in Criminal Defense: White Collar, Commercial Litigation since 2021.

Prior to joining Crowell & Moring, Lisa was a litigation associate in the New York office of an AmLaw 100 firm, where she also concentrated on complex securities and commercial litigation matters.  From 2007 to 2009, Lisa served as a paralegal specialist in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York as part of the Office’s Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force.