Brooklyn Sawyers Belk is a trial attorney with Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn and Dial of Atlanta, and her practice focuses on criminal law, premises liability, labor and employment, professional liability and healthcare litigation. She also leads internal investigations.

Over a span of almost a decade, she served as an assistant United States attorney in three U.S. attorney’s offices and as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. She tried and prosecuted various criminal cases, including violence, firearms, drugs, fraud, sexual assaults, human trafficking, and homicide cases—winning convictions in numerous federal trials. She successfully argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth and Eleventh Circuits, served as lead counsel for major cases investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internal Revenue Service, Department of State, and other federal agencies, and lectured on the prosecution of financial crimes and other complex offenses.

Sawyers Belk distinguished herself as an electronic surveillance expert at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., as one of approximately 20 attorneys, who reviewed the nation’s electronic surveillance applications and guided other federal prosecutors across the country in those matters.

Sawyers Belk conducts local, regional, and national training seminars on topics ranging from fraud and white collar crime to implicit bias and social justice.