Arnold & Porter LLP lawyers and other professionals are often distinguished by having a deep and rich history of prior government service. Many of our lawyers and other professionals have come to the firm after holding significant positions in government agencies and nonprofit organizations throughout the country.
Lawyers at our firm—young and old—are encouraged to follow in the footsteps of the firm's founders and craft their careers around both private practice and public service. More than 65 attorneys and other professionals currently working at the firm have served in the ranks of the government in both the state, national, and international levels. Our lawyers and other professionals bring those experiences to each day of work with our clients. And they take their experiences at the firm into the public sector to serve the greater community in a variety of capacities.
| Richard M. Alexander | - Enforcement and Compliance Division, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
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| Tim Atkeson | - Deputy District Attorney, City of Denver
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| William Baer | - Director, Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
- Assistant General Counsel & Director of Congressional Relations, FTC
- Attorney Advisor to the Chairman, FTC
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| Grant Bagley | - Director, Coverage and Analysis Group, Office of Clinical Standards and Quality, Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA)
- Acting Director, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) Division of Physician Services, Office of Practitioner and Ambulatory Care Policy, Bureau of Policy Development
- Medical Officer, CMS
- Medical Officer, Office of the Commissioner, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Assistant Attorney General, State of Utah
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| Richard E. Baltz | - Deputy Chief, Office of Tender Offers, Division of Corporation Finance, US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
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| John P. Barker | - Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nonproliferation Controls, US Department of State
- Deputy Assistant Secretary for Export Controls, US Department of State
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| Blake A. Biles | - Attorney, Offices of Water and General Enforcement, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Attorney, Office of General Counsel, EPA
- Director, Office of Toxic Substances, EPA
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| Peter K. Bleakley | - Trial Attorney, Antitrust Division, US Department of Justice (DOJ)
- Trial Attorney, Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
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| Brooksley E. Born | - Chair, Commodity Futures Trading Commission
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| Jeffrey Bromme | - General Counsel, US Consumer Product Safety Commission
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| Bruce M. Chadwick | - Attorney, Federal Trade Commission
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| Martha L. Cochran | - Attorney and Special Counsel, Division of Enforcement, US Securities and Exchange Commission
- Chief Counsel and Staff Director, US Senate Subcommittee on Securities of the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs
- Legislative Director and Senior Domestic Policy Adviser, Senator Christopher Dodd
- Senior Finance Counsel, US House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection and Finance
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| James W. Cooper | - Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division, US Attorney's Office in the District of Columbia
- Acting Chief of the National Security Section, US Attorney's Office in the District of Columbia
- Trial Attorney, Public Integrity Section, US Department of Justice
- Counsel, US Senate Committee on the Judiciary
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| Lawrence E. Culleen | - Chief of Staff to the Assistant Administrator, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Acting Director, Registration Division in the Office of Pesticide Programs, EPA
- Chief, New Chemicals Branch, EPA
- Director, Asbestos-In-Schools Loan and Grant Program, EPA
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| A. Patrick Doyle | - General Counsel, Federal Home Loan Bank Board
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| James R. Farrand | - Assistant General Counsel, US Securities and Exchange Commission
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| Deborah L. Feinstein | - Special Assistant to the Director; Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
- Attorney Adviser, Commissioner Dennis Yao, FTC
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| Dwight A. Fettig | - Legislative Director, US Senator Tim Johnson
- Legislative Director, US Representative Tim Johnson
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| Richard M. Firestone | - Chief, Common Carrier Bureau, Federal Communications Commission
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| Sonia P. Fois | - Professional Staff, Oversight Subcommittee of the US Senate Governmental Affairs Committee
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| Robert Alan Garrett | - Assistant to the General Counsel, Office of the Secretary of the Army
- Staff Counsel, Special Commission on the United States Military Academy
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| Joel M. Gross | - Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, US Department of Justice
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| Thomas A. Gustafson PhD | - Deputy Director, Center for Medicare Management at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Director, Hospital & Ambulatory Policy Group, CMS
- Deputy Director, Office of Research and Demonstrations, CMS
- Deputy Director, Office of Legislation, CMS
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| Luc Gyselen | - Senior Official with the Directorate-General for Competition at the European Commission
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| Drew A. Harker | - Professional Staff Member, US Senate Committee on Armed Services
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| John D. Hawke, Jr. | - Comptroller of the Currency
- Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance
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| Brian D. Israel | - Honors Trial Attorney, Environmental Enforcement Section, US Department of Justice
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| Richard L. Jacobson | - Member, Trial Unit, Enforcement Division, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
- Special Counsel to the Chairman, SEC
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| Richard A. Johnson | - Associate General Counsel for International Trade, US Department of Commerce
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| Matthew L. LaRocco | - Special Assistant to the Office of Secretary, US Department of Interior
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| Ronald D. Lee | - Associate Deputy Attorney General, US Department of Justice
- General Counsel, National Security Agency
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| Susan G. Lee | - Chief of Staff, US Commodity Futures Trading Commission
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| Maurice A. Leiter | - Assistant US Attorney, Los Angeles
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| Arthur N. Levine | - General Counsel for Litigation, US Food and Drug Administration
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| Robert S. Litt | - Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General, US Department of Justice
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| Robert E. Mannion | - Deputy General Counsel, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
- Assistant General Counsel, Federal Open Market Committee, Federal Reserve System
- Associate General Counsel, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
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| Anna N. Manville | - Examining Attorney, US Patent & Trademark Office
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| Jonathan Martel | - Office of General Counsel, US Environmental Protection Agency
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| Brian C. McCormally | - Director, Enforcement and Compliance Division, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
- Assistant Director of Enforcement, OCC
- Senior legal positions, Office of Thrift Supervision and its predecessor, the Federal Home Loan Bank
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| Nancy G. Milburn | - Assistant United States Attorney, Civil Division, Southern District of New York
- Chief, Tax Unit, US Attorney's Office
- Deputy Chief, Civil Division, US Attorney's Office
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| Bruce L. Montgomery | - Trial Attorney, US Department of Justice
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| C. Scott Morrow | - Specialized in soliciting and administering government contracts at the Department of the Navy
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| Son B. Nguyen | - Management Analyst, US Department of Commerce
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| Trenton H. Norris | - Legislative Assistant (Appropriations, Environmental, Public Lands, and Transportation), US Senator Wyche Fowler, Jr.
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| Evelina J. Norwinski | - Assistant Federal Public Defender
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| Donna E. Patterson | - Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, US Department of Justice
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| Robert Pitofsky | - Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
- Commissioner, FTC
- Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, FTC
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| Vernessa T. Pollard | - Associate Chief Counsel for Enforcement, Office of Chief Counsel, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
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| Paul E. Pompeo | - Staff Counsel, Postal Service Board of Contract Appeals
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| Alan E. Reider | - Chief, Review Policy Branch, Office of Professional Standards Review Organizations, Health Care Financing Administration, US Department of Health & Human Services
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| Christopher S. Rhee | - Special Assistant to Deputy Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr.
- Assistant US Attorney
- Counsel, US Senate Judiciary Committee
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| Richard L. Rosen | - Chief, Communication and Finance Section, Antitrust Division, US Department of Justice
- Assistant Director, Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
- Attorney Advisor to the Chairman, FTC
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| Stanford G. Ross | - Commissioner, Social Security Administration
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| Eric A. Rubel | - General Counsel, US Consumer Product Safety Commission
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| Paul M. Rudolf MD | - Senior Advisor for Medical and Health Policy, Office of the Commissioner US Food and Drug Administration
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| Allison B. Rumsey | - Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, US Department of Justice (DOJ)
- Honors Trial Attorney, Natural Resources Section, DOJ
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| Stephen M. Sacks | - Assistant to the General Counsel, Department of the Army
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| Ronald A. Schechter | - Trial Attorney, Commercial Litigation Branch, US Department of Justice
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| Scott B. Schreiber | - Special Counsel, US Congress, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights
- Special Assistant Counsel, US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
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| Kathleen Scott | - Associate Attorney, Office of the Assistant General Counsel for Enforcement, US Department of the Treasury
- Assistant Counsel, NY State Banking Department
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Andrew J. Shipe
| - Division of Market Regulation, US Securities and Exchange Commission
- Enforcement and Regulatory Divisions, Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Prosecutor, Office of the Bronx District Attorney, New York City
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| Jeffrey H. Smith | - General Counsel, Central Intelligence Agency
- Member, Commission to Review the Roles and Missions of the Armed Services
- Chair, Joint Security Commission
- Chief of the Clinton Transition Team at the Department of Defense
- General Counsel, Senate Armed Services Committee
- Assistant Legal Adviser, US Department of State
- Senator Sam Nunn's designee to the Iran/Contra Committee and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
- As an Army Judge Advocate General officer, he served as the Pentagon's lawyer for the Panama Canal negotiations
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| Michael N. Sohn | - General Counsel, Federal Trade Commission.
- Council Member, Administrative Conference of the United States
- Member, Executive Committee, Regulatory Council of the United States
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| Jonathan L. Stern | - Chief of the Trial Division, District of Columbia Public Defender Service
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| Craig A. Stewart | - Assistant United States Attorney, Southern District of New York
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| Michael D. Trager | - Division of Enforcement, US Securities and Exchange Commission
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| Lincoln Tsang | - Nonexecutive Director, Board of National Institute for Biological Standards and Control
- Commissioner, British Pharmacopoeia Commission
- Vice Chairman, Nomenclature Committee, British Pharmacopoeia Commission
- Vice Chairman, Biological and Biotechnology Specialist Group, British Pharmacopoeia Commission
- Member, UK Ministerial Industry Strategy Group Sub-group Forum
- Head of Biologicals and Biotechnology, UK Regulatory Authority
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| Jim Turner | - Former Congressman; Texas' 2nd Congressional District in the US House of Representatives Member, Committees on Homeland Security, Armed Services, and Government Reform. Ranking member, the House Select Committee on Homeland Security and Ranking Member of the Terrorism Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee
- Member, Texas State Senate
- Member, Texas House of Representatives
- Chief of Staff and Chief Legislative Liaison to Texas Governor Mark White
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| Laura Riposo VanDruff | - Chief of Staff to the Assembly Majority Leader, New York State Legislature
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| William W. Vodra | - Associate Chief Counsel for Drugs, US Food and Drug Administration
- Assistant Chief Counsel, US Drug Enforcement Agency
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| Daniel Waldman | - General Counsel, Commodity Futures Trading Commission
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| Robert N. Weiner | - Senior Counsel, White House Counsel's Office
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| Charles R. Wenner | - Special Counsel to the Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
- Division of Corporation Finance, SEC
- Staff, Advisory Committee on Corporate Disclosure, SEC
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| Emma Wright | - Seconded Policy Adviser, Communications and Information Industries Directorate, UK Department of Trade and Industry
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| Peter L. Zimroth | - Corporation Counsel, City of New York
- Chief Assistant District Attorney, Manhattan
- Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
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