Lance’s corporate clients have included numerous Fortune 500 public companies, large private companies, pension funds, and audit and law firms. His individual clients have included over a dozen current or former CEOs of some of the world’s largest public and private corporations (including two in the Fortune 25, and three more in the Fortune 500), as well as numerous other senior corporate officers and directors, high-level government officials, and candidates for federal office.  He was trial counsel for Elizabeth Holmes, in one of the most closely watched criminal trials of the last decade. Though all cases vary and none is predictive, Lance's representative experience includes:

• the CEO of a Fortune 500 technology company in an indicted securities fraud case (case dismissed post-indictment)
• the CEO of a telecommunications company in the first indicted criminal case involving alleged fraud in the FCC Lifeline program (charges dismissed the day before trial);
• a candidate for President of the United States in a public corruption investigation (no charges brought) 
• the CEO of a Fortune 25 company in a joint DOJ-SEC FCPA investigation (no charges brought)
• the CEO of a Fortune 25 company in a joint DOJ-SEC securities and accounting fraud investigation (no charges brought);
• a federally regulated financial institution in an indicted securities and bank fraud matter (criminal charges dismissed post-indictment with only a modest civil resolution). 

Lance frequently handles matters that are international in focus, including cases originating from or connected to Japan, China, Brazil, Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Russia, South Korea, Mexico, Canada, UAE, Uzbekistan, Spain, Panama, El Salvador, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Nigeria, and South Africa.  He has represented clients before an array of investigating authorities, including United States Attorneys’ offices in 21 different districts; Department of Justice (aka Main Justice) divisions and branches, including Antitrust, Criminal Fraud, Consumer Protection, Civil Fraud, Public Integrity, and Environmental and Natural Resources; Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC); Federal Trade Commission (FTC); Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB); Federal Inspectors General offices for numerous federal agencies; and state attorneys general.  

His matters have involved a wide array of substantive allegations, including securities fraud, mail and wire fraud, sanctions evasion, antitrust crimes, insider trading, insurance fraud, bank fraud, money laundering, public corruption, cyber-crimes, embezzlement, tax fraud, false claims, sanctions evasion, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations, health care fraud, environmental crimes, and numerous civil violations.  His clients have come from many different industries, including pharmaceutics, medical devices, software technology, hardware technology, banking, telecommunications, investment banking, auditing, cryptocurrency, agriculture, manufacturing, transportation, automotive, retail, fashion, media, and government, among others.

Lance is a Co-Chair of Corporate Criminal Liability Committee of the ABA’s White Collar Crime Committee, and is a fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America. He is frequently called on to speak or lecture at law schools and professional conferences on matters including trial practice, jury selection, health care fraud, general white collar crime, and sanctions and money laundering.    

Lance was born and raised near the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, where his defense career began as an ice hockey goalie. He graduated from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he played hockey. He then went on to Law School at Boston College Law School, where he was the Managing Editor of the Boston College Law Review. After law school, he clerked for Judge Harris L Hartz on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit before joining the firm. Lance lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland with his wife and the one of his three children who has not yet fled the nest.