Amy Harman Burkart

Amy Harman Burkart is a senior trial counsel in the Division of Enforcement at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in Boston. Prior to joining the SEC, she was an assistant U.S. attorney (AUSA) and chief of the Cybercrime Unit at the U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO)/Department of Justice (DOJ) in Boston, where she spent a decade investigating and prosecuting computer, intellectual property and financial crimes. Ms. Burkart also served as co-director of the USAO’s Civil Rights Enforcement Team, a cross-office team focused on criminal civil rights matters, including sex and labor trafficking. She was a member of the Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Working Group, a national group of prosecutors that work with the DOJ’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) to train other prosecutors working in these areas. Ms. Burkart was also a leader of both districtwide and nationwide initiatives at DOJ related to technology and discovery issues. In addition to her work at the government, she worked in private practice at Davis Polk & Wardwell (New York), Goodwin (Boston) and Jones Day (Boston). Ms. Burkart clerked for Hon. Colleen McMahon in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. In addition, she has taught courses at Boston University School of Law and Vermont Law School. Ms. Burkart received her bachelor’s degree in 1996 in political science and government from Dartmouth College, and her J.D. in 2001 from New York University School of Law.