Covington & Burling LLP is an American multinational

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. Headquartered in

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, the firm advises clients on

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, and

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matters. In 2021,

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ranked Covington & Burling as the #1 law firm in Washington, D.C. The firm has additional offices in

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Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , " Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its ...

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, and

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History

Judge

J. Harry Covington James Harry Covington (May 3, 1870 – February 4, 1942) was a United States representative from Maryland and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. He founded the major law firm of Covington & Burling. Education and ca ...

and Edward B. Burling founded Covington & Burling in Washington, DC, on January 1, 1919. In 1988, Covington opened a London office, followed by a Brussels office in 1990. In 1999, Covington merged with a 60-lawyer New York firm called Howard, Smith & Levin and also opened its first West Coast office in San Francisco. In 2008, Covington entered into a strategic alliance with

Institution Quraysh for Law & Policy Institution Quraysh for Law & Policy, also known as iQ, is a transnational law think-tank with offices in London and with a focus on promoting the rule of law globally. The institution's history goes back to the Arab World, in particular the stat ...

(iQ), a Qatar-based transnational law firm and

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, for the joint provision of legal and consulting services in the

Middle East The Middle East ( ar, الشرق الأوسط, ISO 233: ) is a geopolitical region commonly encompassing Arabia (including the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain), Asia Minor (Asian part of Turkey except Hatay Province), East Thrace (Europ ...

. As of mid-2009, both firms share the same London office premises.

Pro bono

Covington's pro bono work focuses on providing legal services to people in local communities. Attorneys at the firm can participate in a six-month rotation program and work at each of three DC-based legal service organizations: Neighborhood Legal Services Program, the Children's Law Center and

Bread for the City Bread for the City is a comprehensive front line agency serving the poor of Washington, D.C., USA. The agency began as two organizations: Zacchaeus Free Clinic, and Bread for the City, a project by a coalition of downtown DC churches created in 1 ...

. Covington's pro bono work includes representation in ''

Buckley v. Valeo ''Buckley v. Valeo'', 424 U.S. 1 (1976), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court on campaign finance. A majority of justices held that, as provided by section 608 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, limits on election expenditure ...

'', ''Griffin v. Illinois'', and '' Korematsu v. United States''. However, the firm's pro bono program encompasses a range of areas, including freedom of expression and religion;

civil rights Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals. They ensure one's entitlement to participate in the civil and political life ...

and civil liberties;

gay rights Rights affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people vary greatly by country or jurisdiction—encompassing everything from the legal recognition of same-sex marriage to the death penalty for homosexuality. Notably, , ...

;

family law Family law (also called matrimonial law or the law of domestic relations) is an area of the law that deals with family matters and domestic relations. Overview Subjects that commonly fall under a nation's body of family law include: * Marri ...

;

education Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty. ...

; landlord/tenant;

homelessness Homelessness or houselessness – also known as a state of being unhoused or unsheltered – is the condition of lacking stable, safe, and adequate housing. People can be categorized as homeless if they are: * living on the streets, also kn ...

; employment;

criminal In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority. The term ''crime'' does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition,Farmer, Lindsay: "Crime, definitions of", in Ca ...

and court-appointed cases;

police misconduct Police misconduct refers to inappropriate conduct and illegal actions taken by police officers in connection with their official duties. Types of misconduct include among others: coerced false confession, intimidation, false arrest, false impris ...

;

environmental law Environmental law is a collective term encompassing aspects of the law that provide protection to the environment. A related but distinct set of regulatory regimes, now strongly influenced by environmental legal principles, focus on the managem ...

; fairness in government procurements and grants;

intellectual property Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect. There are many types of intellectual property, and some countries recognize more than others. The best-known types are patents, cop ...

;

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incorporation and tax. They supported the District of Columbia in ''

District of Columbia v. Heller ''District of Columbia v. Heller'', 554 U.S. 570 (2008), is a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects an individual's right to keep and bear arms, unconnected with service i ...

'' which argues that the District's ban on the possession of handguns and its storage provisions for other firearms in the home is not implicated by the

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Representation of Guantanamo Bay inmates

Attorneys at Covington & Burling have been

Guantanamo Bay attorneys The Center for Constitutional Rights has coordinated efforts by American lawyers to handle the habeas corpus, and other legal appeals, of several hundred of the Guantanamo detainees. Only American lawyers have been allowed to visit detainees at ...

for

Ahmed al-Ghailani Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani ( ar, أحمد خلفان الغيلاني, ''Aḥmad Khalifān al-Ghaīlānī'') is a Tanzanian conspirator of the al-Qaeda terrorist organization convicted for his role in the bombing of embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. ...

fifteen Yemenis, one Pakistani, and one Algerian being held at Guantanamo Bay. The firm obtained favorable rulings that detainees have rights under the Fifth Amendment and the

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. The court ruled in March 2005 that the government could not transfer detainees from Guantanamo Bay to foreign custody without first giving the prisoners a chance to challenge the move in court. According to The American Lawyer's annual pro bono survey, Covington lawyers spent 3,022 hours on Guantánamo litigation in 2007, "the firm's largest pro bono project that year". Lawyers from the firm who have become administration officials have been advised by ethics officials to recuse themselves in matters involving detainees represented by their former firms, but not from policy issues where they were not personally and substantially involved.

Lanny Breuer Lanny Arthur Breuer (born August 5, 1958) is an American criminal defense lawyer who currently serves as vice chair of Covington & Burling LLP. From 2009 to 2013, he served as Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the U.S. De ...

is one of those who has had to recuse from some matters since leaving the firm for a government position. Covington also co-authored one of three petitioners' briefs filed in ''

Boumediene v. Bush ''Boumediene v. Bush'', 553 U.S. 723 (2008), was a writ of ''habeas corpus'' submission made in a civilian court of the United States on behalf of Lakhdar Boumediene, a naturalized citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina, held in military detention by t ...

'', "and was responsible for several detainee victories" in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. "At least one high-ranking appointee played a key role in advancing detainees' rights," but they did not participate in litigation over the Guantanamo Bay prison itself.

Pro bono accolades

*First in Pro Bono Hours per Lawyer, 2019 and 2020—''The American Lawyer'' *

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, Pro Bono Firm of the Year, ranked No. 1 (2015). *DC Bar Association, Thurgood Marshall Award for commitment to excellence in the fields of civil rights and individual liberties (2006).

Recent notable clients

State of California

The State of California hired Covington & Burling attorney and former Obama Attorney General

Eric Holder Eric Himpton Holder Jr. (born January 21, 1951) is an American lawyer who served as the 82nd Attorney General of the United States from 2009 to 2015. Holder, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama, was the first African Amer ...

to fight the Trump administration.

Commonwealth of Australia

According to press reports and filings with the U.S. Department of Justice under the

Foreign Agents Registration Act The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA)2 U.S.C. § 611 ''et seq.'' is a United States law that imposes public disclosure obligations on persons representing foreign interests.

, Covington & Burling assisted the government of Australia in pursuing the legislation to create a new visa category reserved exclusively for nationals of Australia following the enactment of the U.S.-Australia Free Trade Agreement. The Covington team included

Stuart Eizenstat Stuart Elliott Eizenstat (born January 15, 1943) is an American diplomat and attorney. He served as the United States Ambassador to the European Union from 1993 to 1996 and as the United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001. ...

, Martin Gold,

Roderick DeArment Roderick Allen DeArment (born March 3, 1948) was nominated to be United States Deputy Secretary of Labor under President George H. W. Bush in 1989. DeArment graduated from Trinity College (B.A., 1970) and the University of Virginia School of Law ( ...

David Marchick David Marchick (born 1966) is an American attorney, businessman, academic, and diplomat who serves as dean of thKogod School of Businessat American University. He previously served as chief operating officer of the United States International De ...

, Elizabeth Letchworth, Les Carnegie, and Brian Smith. On November 20, 2012, the LegalTimes reported that the Embassy of South Korea had hired Covington & Burling to advise on a similar visa for Korea. Covington of counsel Brian Smith and senior international policy adviser

Alan Larson Alan Philip Larson is a diplomat and a former United States Ambassador to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (1990–93). He served as US Undersecretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs

reportedly led the matter, assisted by senior counsel Martin Gold and associate Jonathan Wakely.

Current and former attorneys

* David Campion Acheson * Brad Smith *

Dean Acheson Dean Gooderham Acheson (pronounced ; April 11, 1893October 12, 1971) was an American statesman and lawyer. As the 51st U.S. Secretary of State, he set the foreign policy of the Harry S. Truman administration from 1949 to 1953. He was also Truma ...

* Donald Alexander *

Richard S. Arnold Richard Sheppard Arnold (March 26, 1936 – September 23, 2004) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas and the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas ...

Howard Berman Howard Lawrence Berman (born April 15, 1941) is an American attorney and retired politician who served as a U.S. representative from California from 1983 to 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented the state's 26th congressional d ...

Stephanos Bibas Stephanos Bibas (born 1969) is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Before his appointment to the bench, Bibas was a professor of law and criminology and director of the Supre ...

John R. Bolton John Robert Bolton (born November 20, 1948) is an American attorney, diplomat, Republican consultant, and political commentator. He served as the 25th United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2005 to 2006, and as the 26th United Sta ...

Kit Bond Christopher Samuel "Kit" Bond (born March 6, 1939) is an American attorney, politician and former United States Senator from Missouri and a member of the Republican Party. First elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986, he defeated Democrat Harriett ...

Michael Boudin Michael Boudin ( ; born November 29, 1939) is a former United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He served as Chief Judge of that court from 2001 to 2008. Before his service on the First Circuit, he ...

* Steven G. Bradbury *

William Bundy William Putnam Bundy (September 24, 1917 – October 6, 2000) was an American attorney and intelligence expert, an analyst with the CIA. Bundy served as a foreign affairs advisor to both presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He had ...

* Edward B. Burling *

Vince Girdhari Chhabria Vince Girdhari Chhabria (born November 27, 1969) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and formerly a Deputy City Attorney at the San Francisco City Attorney's Office. Biog ...

Abram Chayes Abram Chayes (July 18, 1922 – April 16, 2000) was an American scholar of international law closely associated with the administration of John F. Kennedy. He is best known for his "legal process" approach to international law, which attempted ...

Michael Chertoff Michael Chertoff (born November 28, 1953) is an American attorney who was the second United States Secretary of Homeland Security to serve under President George W. Bush. Chertoff also served for one additional day under President Barack Obama. ...

W. Graham Claytor, Jr. William Graham Claytor Jr. (March 14, 1912 – May 14, 1994) was an American Lawyer, attorney, United States Navy officer, and railroad, transportation and defense administrator for the United States government, working under the administrations o ...

Christopher Reid Cooper Christopher Reid "Casey" Cooper (born September 2, 1966) is an American lawyer who serves as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Early life and education Cooper was born in Mobile, Ala ...

John Sherman Cooper John Sherman Cooper (August 23, 1901 – February 21, 1991) was an American politician, jurist, and diplomat from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. He served three non-consecutive, partial terms in the United States Senate before being elect ...

* Malik R. Dahlan *

Roderick Allen DeArment Roderick Allen DeArment (born March 3, 1948) was nominated to be United States Deputy Secretary of Labor under President George H. W. Bush in 1989. DeArment graduated from Trinity College (B.A., 1970) and the University of Virginia School of Law ...

Joan Donoghue Joan E. Donoghue (born December 12, 1957) is an American lawyer, international legal scholar, former U.S. State Department official, and the current president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). She was first elected to the court in 201 ...

* John W. Douglas *

John C. Dugan John C. Dugan (born June 3, 1955) is an American attorney who served as the 29th comptroller of the currency from August 2005 to August 14, 2010. He has since worked as the chairman of Citigroup. Early life and education Dugan was born in Washin ...

Stuart E. Eizenstat Stuart Elliott Eizenstat (born January 15, 1943) is an American diplomat and attorney. He served as the United States Ambassador to the European Union from 1993 to 1996 and as the United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001. ...

Leecia Eve Leecia Roberta Eve is an attorney from New York with experience in federal government, state government, and the private sector who currently works as a lobbyist for telecommunications giant Verizon. Born in Buffalo, Eve was a candidate for Lieut ...

Adrian S. Fisher Adrian Sanford Fisher (January 21, 1914 – March 18, 1983) was an American lawyer and federal public servant, who served from the late 1930s through the early 1980s. He was associated with the Department of War and Department of State throughout ...

* Roger Fisher * Ivan K. Fong *

Gerhard Gesell Gerhard Alden Gesell (June 16, 1910 – February 19, 1993) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Education and career Born in Los Angeles, California, Gesell received a Bachelor of A ...

Haywood Stirling Gilliam, Jr. Haywood Stirling Gilliam Jr. (born October 13, 1969) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Biography Gilliam was born in 1969, in Marlborough, Massachusetts. He graduated ...

Jack L. Goldsmith Jack Landman Goldsmith III (born September 26, 1962) is an American legal scholar. He is a professor at Harvard Law School who has written extensively in the fields of international law, civil procedure, federal courts, conflict of laws, and nat ...

Lino Graglia Lino Anthony Graglia (January 22, 1930January 30, 2022) was the A. W. Walker Centennial Chair in Law at the University of Texas specializing in antitrust litigation. He earned a BA from the City College of New York in 1952, and an LLB from Columb ...

Coleman Hicks Coleman Hicks (26 April 1943 – 3 August 2004) was a United States lawyer who served as General Counsel of the Navy from 1979 to 1981. Biography Coleman Hicks was born in Columbus, Ohio, and raised in Mason City, Iowa. Hicks was educated at Prin ...

Donald Hiss Donald Hiss (December 15, 1906 – May 18, 1989), also known as "Donie" and "Donnie", was the younger brother of Alger Hiss. Donald Hiss's name was mentioned during the 1948 hearings wherein his more famous and older brother, Alger, was a ...

Charles Antone Horsky Charles Antone Horsky (March 22, 1910 – August 20, 1997) served as the Advisor on National Capital affairs under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, and was a partner at the law firm of Covington & Burling for nearly forty years. In his role at ...

Philip K. Howard Philip King Howard (born October 24, 1948) is an American lawyer and writer. He has written on the effects of modern law and bureaucracy on human behavior and the workings of society. He started Common Good, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization w ...

* Nicholas Johnson *

Michael Karlan Michael Karlan (born 1968) is an American attorney at law, attorney and social entrepreneur who is known for founding a socializing and networking organization, Professionals in the City. Early life and education Born in 1968, Karlan grew up in L ...

* Yale Kamisar *

Harold Hongju Koh Harold Hongju Koh (born December 8, 1954) is an American lawyer and legal scholar who served as the legal adviser of the Department of State in the Obama administration. He was nominated to this position by President Barack Obama on March 23, ...

Alex Kozinski Alex Kozinski (; born July 23, 1950) is a Romanian-American jurist and lawyer who was a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1985 to 2017. He was a prominent and influential judge, and many of his law clerks went on to ...

Jon Kyl Jon Llewellyn Kyl ( ; born April 25, 1942) is an American politician and lobbyist who served as a United States Senator for Arizona from 1995 to 2013 and again in 2018. A Republican, he held both of Arizona's Senate seats at different times, ...

Robert D. Lenhard Robert D. Lenhard is a senior attorney in the Election and Political Law Practice Group of Covington & Burling. He formerly served as Chairman of the Federal Election Commission, the United States government agency that administers and enforces ...

Robert Lighthizer Robert Emmet Lighthizer (; born October 11, 1947) is an American attorney and government official who served as the United States Trade Representative from 2017 to 2021. After he graduated from Georgetown University Law Center in 1973, Lighthiz ...

Eugene Ludwig Eugene A. "Gene" Ludwig (born April 11, 1946) is an American business leader and expert on banking regulation, risk management, and fiscal policy. From 1993 to 1998 he served as Comptroller of the Currency. He is the founder and former CEO and c ...

* Kenneth W. Mack *

Gerard Magliocca Gerard Magliocca is an American law professor, the Samuel R. Rosen Professor at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. He is a noted scholar and expert on constitutional issues, particularly its historical underpinnings. Biogra ...

Burke Marshall Burke Marshall (October 1, 1922 – June 2, 2003) was an American lawyer and who served as the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division during the Civil Rights Movement. Early life Marshall was born in Plainfield, ...

* James C. McKay *

David E. McGiffert David Eliot McGiffert (June 27, 1926 – October 12, 2005) was a United States lawyer and Pentagon official who dealt with domestic security during the social upheavals of the late 1960s. Biography David E. McGiffert was born in Boston on June ...

Roderick R. McKelvie Roderick R. McKelvie (born 1946) is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. Education and career Born in Maldon, England, McKelvie received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard U ...

Terrell McSweeny Terrell McSweeny is an American attorney who served as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission from 2014 until 2018. Personal life and education McSweeny is a graduate of Holton-Arms School, Harvard University and Georgetown University ...

* Richard A. Merrill *

Richard Meserve Richard A. "Dick" Meserve (born November 20, 1944 in Medford, Massachusetts) is an American lawyer and scientist. He served as Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 1999 to 2003 and served as President of the Carnegie Institution for ...

Sandra Douglass Morgan Sandra Douglass Morgan is an American attorney and executive. She is currently the president of the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League (NFL). Prior to her tenure with the Raiders, she served on the Nevada State Athletic Commission ...

* Alfred H. Moses *

David Nason David George Nason (born October 6, 1970) is an American lawyer, government official and corporate executive from Washington, DC. He served as the president and CEO of GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of General Electric (GE) from 2013 to 20 ...

Dawn Clark Netsch Dawn Clark Netsch (September 16, 1926 – March 5, 2013) was an American professor of law at Northwestern University and an Illinois politician. A member of the Democratic Party in the United States, she served in the Illinois State Senat ...

Kevin Newsom Kevin Christopher Newsom (born September 22, 1972) is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Early life and education Kevin Newsom was born in B ...

John W. Nields Jr. John W. Nields Jr. (born September 24, 1942) is a lawyer who was chief counsel for the House Committee investigating the Iran–Contra affair. Early life and education Nields was born in New York City in 1942. His father John Sr. was a lawye ...

John Lord O'Brian John Lord O'Brian (October 14, 1874 – April 11, 1973) was an American lawyer who held public offices in the administrations of five U.S. presidents between 1909 and 1945. O'Brian has been recognized by scholars for his commitment to civil liberti ...

Mary Ellen O'Connell Mary Ellen O'Connell is the Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame Law School and a research professor of international dispute resolution at Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace in Studies. Since jo ...

Roberts Bishop Owen Roberts Bishop "Bob" Owen (February 11, 1926 – March 10, 2016) was an American lawyer and diplomat. He served as Legal Adviser of the Department of State from 1979 to 1981 and acted as a mediator and arbitrator in several international disputes. ...

* David Remes * Gary R. Roberts *

George Rublee George Rublee (1868–1957) was a U.S. lawyer who involved himself with state and national political reform during the Progressive Era (1910-1918) and with international affairs from 1917 to 1945. Rublee spent much of his childhood in Europe, whi ...

* Charles Ruff *

Arjun Singh Sethi Arjun Singh Sethi is a Sikh American civil and political rights writer, human rights lawyer, and adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center and Vanderbilt University Law School. Background and career Sethi grew up in Virginia ...

Andrew J. Shapiro Andrew J. Shapiro (born 1967) is an American attorney and diplomat who served as the 17th Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs from 2009 to 2013. Shapiro is currently a Managing Director at Beacon Global Strategies LLC, wh ...

Cameron Stracher Cameron Stracher is a writer, law professor, and media lawyer. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and teaches at New York Law School. After graduating from Harvard, he worked for one year at the law firm of Covington & Burling in Washington, ...

Paul Tagliabue Paul John Tagliabue (; born November 24, 1940) is an American lawyer who was the commissioner of the National Football League (NFL). He took the position in 1989 and served until September 1, 2006. He had previously served as a lawyer for the NFL ...

Phyllis D. Thompson Phyllis D. Thompson (born October 1, 1952) is a Senior associate judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Biography Thompson was born and raised in Washington, D.C. After earning a bachelor's degree in anthropology from George Was ...

* Paul Warnke * Togo D. West, Jr. *

Josh Whitman Josh Whitman (born August 5, 1978) is a university administrator, a lawyer, and a former American football player. He is currently the athletic director at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Whitman served as the athletic director ...

Sarah L. Wilson Sarah L. Wilson (born October 2, 1959) is a former judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims. Born in New York City, Wilson received a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in 1981, from Williams College in Massachusetts, where she was a memb ...

Wesley S. Williams Jr. Wesley Samuel Williams Jr. (born in November 13, 1942) is the first African-American to serve both as legal counsel to the United States Senate and president of the Harvard Law School association. He serves as the Cathedral Priest Scholar and Nav ...

* Robert Eric Wone *

Diane Wood Diane Pamela Wood (born July 4, 1950) is an American attorney who serves as a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. After ...

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