Wendy Johnson

Wendy Johnson is an experienced litigator and trial lawyer who joined RMP LLP as a Partner in July 2019.

Ms. Johnson co-leads the Investigations and Corporate Compliance practice area, where she advises and represents clients in all significant areas of governmental investigations, compliance, white-collar criminal investigations, large-scale corporate internal investigations, complex tax, and antitrust investigations.

Ms. Johnson regularly represents clients facing investigations brought by various divisions of the U.S. Department of Justice, including the Criminal Division, Tax Division; Antitrust Division, and Public Integrity Section.

Prior to transitioning to private practice, Ms. Johnson spent 12 years as an Assistant United States Attorney, where she served as First Assistant United States Attorney, and eight years as a state Deputy Prosecuting Attorney. Ms. Johnson provides clients with a vast understanding of the enforcement functions of federal and state governmental and regulatory agencies.

Ms. Johnson is a distinguished litigator, having tried many jury trials at both the state and federal levels and having argued numerous cases before the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Recently, Ms. Johnson led a team who successfully defended a National Sales Director in the poultry industry charged with criminal conspiracy by the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice for fixing prices and rigging bids over an 8-year period. Throughout a seven-week trial in Denver in the fall of 2021, which ended in a hung jury, and then a second trial during the spring of 2022, which resulted in another hung jury, Ms. Johnson and RMP’s litigation team launched an aggressive defense to the government’s case which ultimately resulted in the case being dismissed with prejudice by the Antitrust Division, and earned the team top honors as AmLaw’s Litigators of the Week.