Roscoe Howard Jr., the District’s U.S. Attorney from 2001 to 2004, has joined Andrews Kurth’s Washington office, as a partner in the the corporate compliance, investigations and defense practice group, the firm announced.

Howard (Brown, UVa) was most recently a partner in Troutman Sanders’ Washington office, where he specialized in white-collar criminal defense. He was a federal prosecutor in Washington and Virginia before taking the top job in the country’s largest U.S. Attorney’s Office.

In addition to his work at the Justice Department, Howard was an associate independent counsel in the investigations of former Secretary of Agriculture, A. Michael Espy, and former Secretary of H.U.D., Samuel Pierce.

Howard was rated by Washingtonian Magazine as one of Washington’s “Top Lawyers” in 2009.

The firm also added Daniel Seikaly, former criminal chief in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.  Seikaly, who also came over from Troutman, joined the firm’s corporate compliance, investigations and defense practice group as counsel. Earlier in his career, he was an Assistant Inspector General for Investigations at the CIA and an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the Justice Department.

Seikaly and Howard will be the firm’s D.C. presence in white-collar criminal matters, corporate compliance, ethics issues, internal investigations and complex civil litigation.

“Few attorneys in the country can match the white-collar and complex civil litigation experience and expertise possessed by Roscoe and Dan,” said Dallas-based partner Spencer Barasch, head of the firm’s CCID practice, in statement.

The firm also announced that Meena Sinfelt joined the D.C. office as an associate.