Shailika Kotiya spent over a decade as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of California and in the Eastern District of North Carolina. She has handled over a hundred criminal cases before the Federal District Court and Circuit Courts of Appeal, including conducting multiple felony jury trials and presenting oral arguments on appeal. As an AUSA, she prosecuted a wide variety of cases involving firearms offenses, robbery, sex trafficking, transnational organized crime, narcotics distribution, health care and wire fraud, and child exploitation offenses, among others.
Presently, Mrs. Kotiya is an attorney at the law firm Scale LLP where she co-leads their white-collar criminal defense and government investigations practice. Her practice focuses on representing individuals and corporations in enforcement actions brought by the Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission and other federal and state governmental authorities. She began her career at the law firm Alston & Bird where her litigation practice focused on intellectual property and trade secret matters. Prior to joining government, she also spent time representing victims of domestic violence in state court proceedings to obtain protective orders.
A North Carolina native, she earned her J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 2009, and her bachelor of science in business administration from the Univeristy of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 2006.
Education
J.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law (2009)
B.S.B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2006)