Lori Sharpe Day
Managing Partner
Lori Sharpe Day provides guidance in understanding the legal and regulatory challenges of the Firm’s clients. Ms. Day also serves as Managing Partner of The Ashcroft Law Firm, LLC, where she advises Firm clients on corporate governance and general corporate matters, with particular emphasis on internal corporate controls and compliance. Ms. Day advises on the federal regulation of health care providers and medical device suppliers, including the Anti-Kickback Statute, the Stark Law, and the False Claims Act, and on general corporate compliance matters.
Ms. Day formerly served as Deputy Chief of Staff and Legislative Counsel to U.S. Senator John Ashcroft, working extensively on rewriting the nation’s bankruptcy laws. Following the release of the National Bankruptcy Review Commission’s Report to Congress in 1997, Ms. Day worked four years with the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee to develop and enact the laws implementing The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act. Her other Senate accomplishments included working on historic legislation in the areas of telecommunications reform, financial services modernization and litigation reform.
Ms. Day served as an Advisor Attorney to General Ashcroft and Director of the Office of Intergovernmental and Public Liaison at the U.S. Department of Justice. While there she played a key role in the Justice Department’s policy development, major legislative, regulatory, management, and appropriations initiatives. Most significantly, Ms. Day helped develop the Department’s policy positions on bankruptcy reform and enforcement, immigration reform and the U.S.A. Patriot Act.
Most recently Ms. Day served as Vice President of Government Affairs at the Air Transport Association of America, where she directed governmental relations strategies for America’s leading passenger and cargo airlines. Responsible for developing industry consensus on key legislative and regulatory issues, her challenge was heightened by the industry’s financial crisis with over half of the nation’s legacy airlines under bankruptcy protection. Ms. Day began her professional career as a bank examiner in the Banking Structure and Supervision Section of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a Juris Doctor at the University of Oklahoma, and is licensed to practice law in Missouri, Oklahoma, and Tennessee.
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