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Grace Hill

(202) 847-4044 ghill@wilkinsonstekloff.com

Career

Grace is an experienced lead trial lawyer who has won all six of her jury trials, and has successfully defended those verdicts on appeal.  As a Partner at Wilkinson Stekloff, Grace recently served as trial counsel for Microsoft and helped deliver a high-profile bench trial victory against the Federal Trade Commission’s challenge to Microsoft’s $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard King. Grace contributed to legal and expert strategy, handled multiple Microsoft executives (including a key witness at trial), and oversaw critical phases of the parallel Part 3 litigation in the FTC’s home court.

Before joining the firm, Grace served as an Assistant United States Attorney with the Financial Crimes and Public Corruption Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia.  As an AUSA, Grace successfully prosecuted and tried a wide range of white-collar cases, including offenses involving government contract fraud, bribery of public officials, CIPA equities, violations of the FCPA (including the massive bribery and kickback conspiracy involving Petrobras, which resulted in an $853.2 million NPA with the company in 2018), investment fraud, insider trading, bank fraud, and tax fraud. She was highly respected within her office, as well as by the bench and the defense bar, and received numerous awards for her work from the FBI and from the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency. Grace was featured in an episode dedicated to one of her cases on American Greed, CNBC’s hit documentary series on high-profile white-collar crimes.

Before becoming a federal prosecutor, Grace practiced at Williams & Connolly, LLP, where she defended criminal tax, national security, environmental, and securities matters in various federal jurisdictions; argued two pro bono criminal appeals; and handled civil litigation matters in federal courtrooms across the country. Her civil experience there includes filing an emergency complaint/TRO and presenting witnesses at a preliminary injunction hearing on behalf of a biotech client trying to enforce a non-compete agreement; briefing successful dispositive motions for an energy company involved in cross-border litigation in the United States; and preparing a tech company’s C-suite executives to testify in a high-profile antitrust investigation.