Laura Giokas is the firm's Assistant General Counsel. As part of this role, she leads the firm's Conflicts Department and Audit Letter Department. Her responsibilities include directing and managing the firm's streamlined conflicts clearing process, researching and counseling on ethical and professional responsibility matters, supervising and providing training on conflicts clearing functions, drafting conflicts waiver letters and ethical walls, reviewing and approving audit letters, and conducting risk management continuing legal education sessions.

Prior to becoming Assistant General Counsel, Ms. Giokas was the firm's Conflicts Counsel and litigation associate in the St. Louis office.

Bar and Court Admissions

Missouri, 2003

Illinois, 2004

United States District Courts for the Southern District of Illinois and Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri

Education

Boston College, J.D., cum laude, 2003

University of Missouri-Columbia, B.A., magna cum laude, 2000