Christian R. Flemming

Christian’s practice focuses on corporate compliance, government ethics, lobbying compliance, and white-collar crime as part of our Government & Corporate Investigations Practice Team. He regularly advises individuals and corporations on compliance with federal, state, and local laws concerning government ethics and lobbying. Christian represents individuals, businesses, and institutions in complex civil litigation, government administrative investigations, cases against the State Attorney General, and white collar criminal defense matters. He has been engaged by Fortune 500 companies and otherwise leading companies in the financial, health care, retail, environmental, transportation, and energy sectors to conduct sensitive regulatory and criminal investigations on national and state levels. Christian has also served as trial counsel, co-counseling a four-week felony jury trial leading to an acquittal of the most serious charge in the indictment. 

Christian regularly advises individuals and corporations on compliance with federal, state, and local laws concerning government ethics and lobbying. He also supports clients engaged in complex regulatory matters and is experienced handling matters for clients in the medical marijuana and cannabis industries as well as the racing and gaming industry. 

 

While in law school, Christian was accepted into the TI:GER Program where he worked on a start-up project to identify regulatory pitfalls and establish compliance programs to assist in successfully bringing a product to market. 

 

Prior to law school, Christian’s experience includes internships in the South Carolina Office of the Governor and the South Carolina Department of Commerce. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of South Carolina.