Mark MacDougall, a former federal prosecutor, is an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center where he has taught courses in Sentencing Law and Policy and Federal White-Collar Crime since 2018. MacDougall practiced law as a partner with the Washington, D.C. office of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld for more than 30 years, where his work focused on white collar criminal defense. A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, he has extensive trial experience in federal and state courts across the United States. MacDougall's clients have included officials of the U.S. as well as foreign governments, major domestic and multinational corporations, senior executives, journalists, sovereign governments in Europe and the Middle East – and even an occasional spy.
Since 2001, MacDougall has served as trial counsel, on a pro bono basis, for a series of indigent defendants facing the death penalty in South Carolina, Missouri and currently in Florida. His pro bono trial work defending capital cases has received national recognition, including the John Paul Stevens Award from the ABA Death Penalty Project and the Foot Soldier Award from the NAACP. MacDougall currently serves as a Director of The Sentencing Project and as a Trustee of Austin Preparatory School in Reading, Massachusetts. He continues to practice law with the Washington, D.C. law firm Schertler Onorato Mead & Sears, LLP.
