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Ciarra Carr

Senior Associate

San Francisco

Ciarra has extensive experience representing individual and corporate clients in high-stakes white collar civil and criminal matters.

Ciarra advises clients across industries in navigating government enforcement actions brought by a range of state and federal agencies, including the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Ciarra's practice centers on responding to government subpoenas and information requests, and conducting internal investigations on behalf of corporate clients to identify compliance program enhancements, with particular focus on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Ciarra also has experience representing individual clients through the sentencing phase in federal cases in the Southern District of New York and the Northern District of California.

In addition to her white collar practice, Ciarra counsels clients on online safety and data privacy matters, including best practices related to child sexual abuse material (CSAM), cyber harassment, sexual exploitation, and hate speech, with a view to mitigating regulatory, litigation, and reputational risk. Her expertise includes advising on rapidly evolving issues such as social media and internet platform reporting obligations, content moderation, and identity verification controls.

  • Ciarra maintains an active pro bono practice, representing clients in matters ranging from federal racketeering conspiracy cases under the Criminal Justice Act to a class action against one of the largest police departments in the United States, which resulted in a monetary and reform-based settlement after four years of litigation.

    Ciarra served as an inaugural Orrick Racial, Social, and Economic Justice Fellow, completing a fifteen-month secondment at Howard University School of Law's Civil Rights Clinic. During her fellowship, she co-authored five amicus briefs filed before the U.S. Supreme Court, including one cited in Justice Kagan's dissent in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, secured a meaningful settlement for the family of a man killed by police officers in Greenville, Mississippi following a successful qualified immunity challenge, and published Truth and Reconciliation: The Ku Klux Klan Hearings of 1871 and the Genesis of Section 1983 in the Penn State Dickinson Law Review.