Armstrong & Bradylyons PLLC has been ranked a Leading Firm in White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations in the Chambers USA Spotlight Guide 2027. The ranking covers the DC Metro market. It follows an independent market analysis by Chambers and Partners and an assessment of the firm’s experience, expertise, and caliber of talent.
Washington, D.C. · For Immediate Release
Armstrong & Bradylyons PLLC has been ranked in the Chambers USA Spotlight Guide 2027 and recognized as an exceptional small to medium-sized law firm. Chambers ranked the firm as a Leading Firm in Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations for the DC Metro area.
Armstrong & Bradylyons PLLC was selected based on an independent and in-depth market analysis, coupled with an assessment of the firm’s experience, expertise, and caliber of talent.
The Chambers Spotlight DC Metro guide recognizes 128 firms across 35 practice areas. With 35 distinct ranking tables, the guide examines the depth of legal talent across the DC Metro area and highlights the top small to mid-size firms that can meet the needs of in-house counsel. Practice areas range from Litigation and Financial Services Regulation to Government Contracts and Technology.
Armstrong & Bradylyons PLLC stood out for its work in White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations. The firm’s nationwide practice groups are:
- White-Collar Defense & Federal Trial Counsel: Defense of individuals, executives, and businesses who have received a grand jury subpoena or target letter, face a DOJ, SEC, or CFTC inquiry, or have been indicted for wire fraud, bank fraud, bribery, FCPA violations, or public corruption. The firm’s attorneys have tried 25 federal jury trials and take cases from first contact with the government through verdict.
- Healthcare Fraud & Anti-Kickback Statute Defense: Defense of physicians, pharmacies, laboratories, DME suppliers, telehealth companies, hospice and home health agencies, and healthcare executives in Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE fraud investigations, Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law matters, and controlled substances diversion cases. The firm’s attorneys tried 17 federal healthcare fraud jury trials at DOJ involving over $2.8 billion in false claims.
- Cryptocurrency Fraud & Money Laundering Defense: Defense of crypto founders, exchange executives, traders, market makers, and DeFi developers in federal investigations of market manipulation, Ponzi and pump-and-dump schemes, rug pulls, pig butchering, unlicensed money transmission, and money laundering through mixers, privacy coins, and offshore exchanges. Scott Armstrong tried the first crypto market manipulation case brought under Title 15.
- Securities & Commodities Fraud Defense: Defense of executives, traders, financial advisors, fund managers, and investment professionals in insider trading, spoofing and market manipulation, accounting fraud, Ponzi, and investment adviser fraud matters brought by DOJ, the SEC, and the CFTC. Scott Armstrong served as co-lead trial counsel in the precious metals spoofing trial of two senior bank traders and as lead trial counsel in a $650 million Ponzi prosecution.
- Procurement Fraud & False Claims Act Defense: Defense of government contractors, healthcare providers, and executives in False Claims Act investigations, qui tam whistleblower suits, Civil Investigative Demands, bid rigging and major fraud prosecutions, and suspension and debarment proceedings. Drew Bradylyons led procurement fraud prosecutions involving hundreds of millions in government contracts as Chief of EDVA’s Financial Crimes and Public Corruption Unit.
- Cryptocurrency & Digital Asset Litigation: Recovery of stolen or misappropriated cryptocurrency through emergency TRO and asset-tracing practice against wallet addresses at international exchanges. Defense of account holders and investors against government and exchange freeze orders, civil and criminal forfeiture, and federal receiver clawback actions in SEC and CFTC cases.
- Complex Civil Litigation & Business Disputes: Representation of businesses, executives, investors, and partners as plaintiffs and defendants in federal litigation over business fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, trade secret misappropriation, investment and partnership disputes, executive retaliation, and receiver clawback claims. The firm brings its federal fraud investigation methods to civil disputes in healthcare, financial services, government contracting, and digital assets.
- Internal Investigations: Internal investigations for companies, boards, audit committees, and special committees responding to whistleblower complaints, financial misconduct, regulatory violations, and executive wrongdoing. Findings are built to withstand review by DOJ, the SEC, the CFTC, and HHS-OIG.
“We built this firm to try cases. Chambers looked at the market and reached its own conclusion about our work. That conclusion came from clients and peers, and we take it seriously. Our clients face the Department of Justice, the SEC, and the CFTC in matters where their liberty and livelihood are at stake. We bring our DOJ experience to the defense side, and our clients benefit from it every day.”
Scott Armstrong, Founding Partner“This ranking reflects the work our clients trust us to do. Scott and I spent more than twenty years inside DOJ learning how federal fraud cases are built. We now use that knowledge to defend the people those cases target. Chambers’ independent research confirmed what our clients already know. A small firm with deep federal trial experience can stand against any opponent in federal court.”
Drew Bradylyons, Founding PartnerThis recognition reflects the firm’s position in the DC Metro legal market as a boutique that pairs senior DOJ experience with partner-level attention on every matter.
Background to the Firm
Armstrong & Bradylyons PLLC is a federal white-collar defense and complex litigation boutique based in Washington, D.C. Scott Armstrong and Drew Bradylyons founded the firm after each served in senior roles at DOJ’s Fraud Section and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, collectively for more than twenty years. The firm’s attorneys have tried 25 federal jury trials in complex white-collar cases, including 17 healthcare fraud trials involving over $2.8 billion in alleged false claims.
The firm defends individuals and businesses nationwide facing investigation, indictment, or trial for healthcare fraud, cryptocurrency and digital asset fraud, securities and commodities fraud, insider trading, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, procurement fraud, and money laundering. It also represents clients on both sides of high-stakes business disputes and complex civil litigation in federal court.
Background to Chambers
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