Lea Carlisle Pheifer

After law school at SMU Dedman Law, Lea Carlisle Pfeifer clerked for the Honorable Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr. of the Supreme Court of Missouri before joining the U.S. Department of Justice, Tax Division in Washington, DC as an Honors Attorney. Pfeifer worked at Main Justice for over eleven years, first prosecuting criminal tax cases, then money laundering and forfeiture cases for the Criminal Division’s Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section, and finally, coordinating extradition and fugitive matters and handling MLAT requests to various Caribbean countries at the Office of International Affairs. She returned to Dallas as an Assistant United States Attorney handling forfeitures in the Northern District of Texas before joining MoneyGram International as regulatory counsel, where she focused on anti-money laundering (AML), anti-fraud, sanctions, the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), and Regulation E Subpart B. Currently, she is a Senior Attorney with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s Dallas Regional Office.