At the NAFUSA conference last week in Nashville, Terry Flynn was elected president for 2018-2019. Terry is a former presidentially appointed United States Attorney for the Western District of New York (2006-2009). He is currently a partner at Harris Beach PLLC in Buffalo. He represents businesses across industries in both civil and criminal government investigations which include conducting internal corporate probes and independent monitorships. He has advised clients among the Fortune 50 and large privately held companies, including Walmart, Facebook, United Technologies, United/Continental Airlines and the Buffalo Sabres, on such matters as government compliance, commercial litigation, product liability or personal injury litigation. Terry’s representation of United Technologies resulted in Harris Beach being acknowledged among the Go-To Law Firms^® for 2014 in Contracts Litigation as published in Corporate Counsel magazine. Additionally, Terry served as the federally appointed Monitor on a multi-year matter brought by the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs over an international company with procurement compliance and regulatory issues.

Terry advises clients in complex legal crises involving criminal, civil, regulatory and related public relation matters. He has been engaged by leading companies in the financial, intellectual property, health care, retail, and energy sectors to conduct sensitive regulatory and criminal investigations on international, national and state levels. His knowledge of and relationship with federal, state and local law enforcement enables him to react quickly in order to respond to various crisis situations.  Terry has been recognized as a Best Lawyer in America since 2018 and ranked by Chambers since 2017.

Prior to joining Harris Beach, Terry served as the United States Attorney for the Western District of New York. In that capacity, he was the chief civil lawyer and criminal prosecutor for the United States and all of its agencies in the 17 county region of the Western District of New York. He oversaw the management of two offices (Buffalo and Rochester) with more than 130 personnel, including 57 attorneys. Specifically, he was responsible for the overall civil affirmative enforcement, civil defense and criminal prosecution of approximately 4,200 cases, encompassing such areas as government compliance/independent monitor, health care fraud, international trade, white collar fraud, and numerous other civil and criminal matters. During his tenure, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of New York recovered on behalf of taxpayers over $124 million through both affirmative civil and criminal enforcement of fraud against the U.S. Government.