BY Sachin Chougule
Jay Prabhu previously served over 21 years with the U.S. Department of Justice, with the majority as an Assistant United States Attorney. Jay has first-chaired more than two dozen federal trials, including many of first impression, and has argued numerous appeals in federal criminal and civil matters. He began his career at Wilmer, CutlerPickering Hale & Dorr LLP, specializing in complex litigation, securities, intellectual property, and antitrust matters. He represented numerous technology, healthcare, and manufacturing clients. After six years in private practice, Mr. Prabhu joined the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the U.S. DOJ’s Criminal Division, where he specialized in intellectual property and trade secret theft cases. During this time, Jay wrote the FBI Anti-Piracy Warning that was placed on every commercial television and movie distributed. In 2007, Jay joined the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, where he became the Chief of the Cybercrime Unit in 2009. During his tenure with EDVA, Jay prosecuted numerous cases in Cybercrime, National Security, Intellectual Property, Fraud, Child Exploitation, and Narcotics matters. Jay also worked closely with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s Office of Criminal Investigations in numerous prosecutions. Mr. Prabhu received the John Marshall Award, the highest recognition given to a DOJ lawyer, in 2018.The National Asian and Pacific American Bar Association awarded him the Daniel K. Inouye Trailblazer Award in 2021 for his lifetime achievements. He serves on the Board of Directors of two non-profit bar associations.
