Linsday Wardlaw Vice President of Trade Advisory Services AMALIE TRADE CONSULTING
Lindsay Bernsen Wardlaw is a consultant at Amalie Trade Compliance Consulting, where she provides operational advice to clients regarding how to build and enhance their export, sanctions, customs, and antiboycott compliance programs.
Before joining Amalie, Lindsay was an international trade attorney at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and at Sidley Austin LLP. In that capacity, she worked on trade-related client counseling; WTO, customs, and trade remedies litigation; sanctions and export controls investigations; trade and anti-corruption based merger and acquisition due diligence; CFIUS filings; and international investor-state arbitration matters.
Ms. Wardlaw earned her J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School, where she was the Editor-in-Chief of the Michigan Journal of International Law and the student coach of Michigan Law’s Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot team. She also served as an advanced Student Attorney with the school's International Transactions Clinic, where she assisted social enterprises in building their FCPA, anti- money laundering, sanctions, and export compliance programs.
Lindsay spent the summer after her first year of law school at the U.S. Department of Justice, where she worked on matters before the Court of International Trade, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and Court of Federal Claims.
Prior to law school, Ms. Wardlaw was a corporate trade compliance manager and analyst at two Fortune 500 companies, specializing in global trade compliance program-building and process improvement. To improve her knowledge of import law, Lindsay took the U.S. CBE in April 2016. She passed with the highest score in the nation and currently holds a U.S. Customs Broker License.
Education University of Michigan Law School, JD, Magna Cum Laude, Order of the Coif
The University of Texas at Dallas, BA, International Political Economy, Cum Laude