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Public/Government Service
“I learned during my time at WilmerHale that the most important thing a lawyer has is a reputation. A reputation for integrity, honest dealing, forthrightness, and for being the type of person you yourself would want to work with and against.”
After practicing law at WilmerHale, clerking for the Supreme Court, and joining the Justice Department in Washington during the Clinton Administration, Evan Caminker implements his talent and experience in his role as a law school dean.
“There’s a lot of attention to detail and thinking critically and logically. The organizational skills I learned definitely help.”
After five years practicing corporate law in New York and Boston, the last three as an associate at WilmerHale, Hong could not resist the lure of a more creative path—and it appears the reward was worth the risk.
“I believe there is a very substantial overlap between what a good lawyer and a good journalist does.”
On a recent Friday evening in December, ABC News President David Westin got a tip nobody could know about. At least not yet.
"This job takes every legal and management skill I have."
Since leaving the firm in 1995, Stasia Kelly has had no shortage of interesting work. Currently the GC and senior regulatory and compliance officer of American International Group, Inc., Ms. Kelly discusses some of her current challenges as well as her other experiences since her departure.
These examples only begin to tell the story of our remarkable alumni and our deep pride in their many professional accomplishments. While we cannot promise that every one of our lawyers will become a federal judge, the general counsel of a Fortune 500 company or president of a professional sports team, we believe that each lawyer who joins our firm will be given the opportunity and training to do challenging and rewarding work that will provide them with the platform to pursue exciting professional opportunities throughout their careers.
- United States Attorney for the District of Columbia
- United States Deputy Attorney General and Chief of Staff and Counselor to the Deputy Attorney General
- Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court
- Chief Counsel to the National Institute of Standards and Technology at the US Department of Commerce
- Chief Counsel to the Internal Revenue Service
- Director-Counsel and President of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund
- US Ambassador to the European Union (also White House Counsel)
- US Court of Appeals Judges on the Federal Circuit
- US District Judges in the District of Columbia, the District of Connecticut and the District of Massachusetts
- Attorney General of Ireland
- European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection
- American Ambassador to Germany (also Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs)
- Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Deputy General Counsel, Director of Enforcement and Director of the Division of Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission
- Former Governor of Massachusetts and Mayor of Baltimore
- Former US Attorneys for the Districts of Maryland, Massachusetts and New Hampshire
- Former Attorney General of Maryland
- Former Prime Minister of Peru (also General Counsel of the World Bank)
- General Counsels of Citigroup, Inc., First Marblehead Corporation, and Massachusetts Financial Services
- President of ABC News and General Counsel of Warner Bros. Entertainment
- General Counsel of Intel Corporation
- General Counsel of the Dallas Cowboys, President of the Baltimore Ravens and General Counsel of the Washington Redskins
- Law School Professors at Cardozo, Suffolk Law School, the University of Chicago, the University of Iowa and the University of South Carolina as well as the Dean at Howard University School of Law and a Senior Associate Dean at Duke University School of Law
- A Co-Founder of Seeforever, a program to help troubled adolescents learn marketable skills
- The Founder of the Massachusetts Lesbian Gay Bisexual Alliance
 
As befits a law firm that has been home to such legal giants as Joseph Welch, Lloyd Cutler, John Pickering and James St. Clair, public service is at the very heart of who we are as people and as a law firm. Whether serving as counsel to the US Army during the Army/McCarthy hearings, as White House counsel to three presidents, as personal counsel for a President or as a member of the 9/11 Commission, our lawyers have been privileged to serve our country at the very highest levels during critical times in our nation’s history. This vibrant and longstanding tradition of public service lives on today. Many of our current colleagues have spent time in leadership positions in government, law enforcement and regulatory agencies. The breadth of this experience is truly a uniquely distinguishing aspect of our law firm and includes, among other positions, service as:
- Solicitor General of the US
- US Trade Ambassador
- Special Assistant and Associate White House Counsel
- Deputy Attorney General, Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General
- General Counsels of the Department of Defense, the Department of the Navy, the US Treasury Department, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Federal Communications Commission
- Directors of Market Regulation and Investment Management of the Securities and Exchange Commission
- Deputy Director and Chief Counsel, Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission
Our commitment to this ideal does not end once a lawyer joins our firm. Many of our lawyers continue to answer the call to public service throughout their legal careers. We fully support and encourage our colleagues in these efforts and both actively seek their return and to attract new colleagues as they exit public service.
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One of Washington's best-known litigators, Jamie Gorelick was formerly one of the longest serving Deputy Attorneys General of the United States, the second highest position in the Department of Justice. In that role, she supervised the litigation and law enforcement divisions of the Department, including the United States Attorneys Offices.
Ms. Gorelick has served on numerous government boards and commissions. She was a member of the bipartisan National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the "9/11 Commission"). She also was a member of the CIA's National Security Advisory Panel, President Bush's Review of Intelligence Committee and President Clinton's Advisory Committee to the Presidential Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection (which she co-chaired), among others. |
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