Anne Tompkins concentrates her practice in the areas of white collar criminal defense, internal corporate investigations, and compliance program development, review and implementation. She has extensive experience in health care, securities, environmental and public corruption cases and investigations. She is listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the area of white collar criminal defense.

Ms. Tompkins is a former assistant United States attorney (AUSA) in the Western District of North Carolina, where she was the deputy criminal chief. She prosecuted fraud and financial crimes and led the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force program. While with the Department of Justice, Ms. Tompkins worked in Baghdad, Iraq, assisting the Iraqi Special Tribunal prepare criminal cases against members of the former Iraqi regime for violations of international humanitarian law. In addition to her work with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Ms. Tompkins spent eight years as an assistant district attorney with the Mecklenburg County District Attorney’s Office in Charlotte, where she tried numerous felony cases.

Ms. Tompkins received her J.D. in 1992 and her M.P.A. in 1988 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her B.A. in 1984 from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is a member of Alston & Bird’s Diversity Committee. She has been a member of the Governor’s Commission on Domestic Violence and the Board of Directors of the Mecklenburg Bar Foundation. Ms. Tompkins is the former president of the Mecklenburg County Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section. Ms. Tompkins is an Adjunct Professor at the Charlotte School of Law and taught Criminal Procedure in the Fall 2007 semester.