Albert Herring

Professor Herring began his legal career as an Honors Attorney with the U.S. Department of Transportation, where he spent four years litigating civil matters before federal courts and administrative tribunals. Thereafter, he practiced public international law for two years with the International Maritime Organization, a United Nations organization. In 1991, Professor Herring joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, where he spent 20 years prosecuting criminal cases arising under federal and District of Columbia laws. As a career prosecutor, Professor Herring focused primarily on the investigation and trial of homicides and other violent crimes, and he has substantial substantive and litigation experience in those areas. In addition to litigating cases at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Professor Herring held numerous supervisory positions at the office, including Deputy Chief of the Homicide, Major Crimes, and Felony Trial sections, as well as Deputy Chief of the office’s Superior Court Division. From 2005 to 2010, Professor Herring served as the office’s Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney for External Affairs, and was responsible for coordinating the office’s youth violence reduction initiatives, gang reduction strategies, and community outreach and engagement programs. In 2011, Professor Herring joined the U.S. Department of Justice – Office of Professional Responsibility, where he investigated misconduct allegations involving Department of Justice attorneys and cases involving whistleblower retaliation. Professor Herring retired from the Department of Justice in 2025.

Professor Herring has been a visiting faculty member in Harvard Law School’s Trial Advocacy Workshop since 2004, a Team Leader in the workshop since 2011, and has taught in numerous trial advocacy skills workshops sponsored by the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA) since 2005. As a trial advocacy instructor, Professor Herring has trained law students and experienced practitioners in the fundamentals of trial practice, including opening statements, closing arguments, direct and cross examination, impeachment, examination of expert witnesses, and use of exhibits and demonstrative aids. Since 2018, Professor Herring has been a NITA faculty instructor in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Investigative Testimony workshop. In that role, Professor Herring provides training in techniques for examining fact and expert witnesses in administrative enforcement proceedings, including fact gathering, theory testing, obtaining admissions, and use of exhibits.