CORPORATE CRIME REPORTER
White
House Counsel Greg Craig Gets Help
22 Corporate Crime Reporter 5, January 28, 2009
White House counsel Gregory Craig and deputy counsel Cassandra Butts are getting
help from academia, Capitol Hill, the insurance industry – and from Craig’s
former corporate crime defense firm of Williams & Connolly.
The White House today announced 22 new legal hires to fill in the legal team.
Craig’s principal deputy in the White House Counsel’s office will be Daniel Meltzer. Meltzer is professor of law at Harvard Law School.
Before joining Harvard in 1982, Meltzer worked in government with Joseph Califano at the Department of Health Education and Welfare, and then went on to work at Williams & Connolly for three years.
Mary DeRosa will deputy counsel for national security affairs. She has worked most recently with Senate Patrick Leahy on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Neal Wolin will be deputy counsel to the president for economic policy. Wolin served most recently as CEO of property and casualty operations at The Hartford Financial Services.
Norman L. Eisen will be special counsel to the president for ethics and government reform. Eisen was most recently a partner at Zuckerman Spaeder in Washington, D.C. He’s is the co-founder of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
Named as associate counsel were:
* Kendall C. Burman. Burman served as chief staff counsel to the Obama for America campaign. Earlier in her career, she was an associate at Latham & Watkins.
* Susan Davies. Davies recently served as general counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Earlier in her career, Davies worked as a litigator at Sidley and Austin in Chicago.
* Karen Dunn. Dunn most recently served as deputy to David Axelrod on the Obama for America campaign. Earlier in her career, Dunn worked for Senate candidate and then-Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton as her press secretary and later as her communications director and a senior adviser.
* Danielle Gray. Gray recently served as deputy policy director for Obama for America, focusing on domestic policy as well as law and judicial issues. Prior to this, she was an associate with the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York.
* Michael Gottlieb. Gottlieb recently served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Los Angeles. Prior to that, he was an associate with the law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr.
* Roberto J. Gonzalez. Gonzalez recently served as an associate at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr.
* Virginia Canter. Canter most recently served as Associate Director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control at the Department of the Treasury.
* Caroline Krass. Krass recently served as Senior Counsel in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice.
* Jonathan Kravis. Kravis recently served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Washington, D.C.. Prior to that, he was an associate at Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C.
* Trevor Morrison. Morrison is on leave from Columbia Law School, where he is a Professor of Law.
* Alison J. Nathan. Nathan was recently the Fritz Alexander Fellow at New York University School of Law and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Fordham Law School. Prior to academia, Nathan was an associate at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr.
* Kate Shaw. Shaw most recently served as an associate counsel in the office of the General Counsel to the Transition.
* Susan S. Sher. Sher most recently served general counsel of the University of Chicago Medical Center and was responsible for all legal, government, regulatory, and community affairs at the Medical Center. From 1993 through 1997, she was the Corporation Counsel for the City of Chicago.
* Christian A. Weideman. Weideman most recently served as an Associate at Williams & Connolly.
Also named as deputy associate counsels:
* Ian Bassin. Bassin recently served as a member of the Education Policy Working Group for the Presidential Transition Team.
* Rashad Hussain. Hussain recently served as a trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice.
* Blake Roberts. Roberts recently served as a member of the pre-election transition team and then as Assistant to Transition Executive Director Chris Lu.
* Jason G. Green. Green held several positions with the Obama for America campaign, most recently serving as the National Voter Registration Director.
The research director at the counsel’s office will be Shauna Daly. Daly most recently served as the deputy research director to the Obama for America campaign.
Rhonda M. Carter will be the executive assistant to the Deputy White House Counsel, Cassandra Butts. Carter was the Assistant to the General Counsel at the Presidential Transition Team.
Nicholas Colvin will be a staff assistant in the White House Counsel's office. Colvin most recently served as a special assistant on the Obama for America campaign in Chicago.
Shomik Dutta will be special assistant to the President's Counsel, Greg Craig. Dutta most recently worked as a member of the Presidential Transition Team and had earlier served as Mid-Atlantic Finance Director to the Obama for America campaign for two years.
Matthew Flavin will be a staff assistant on the National Security Counsel legal team. Flavin most recently served on the Department of Defense Agency Review Team for the Presidential Transition Team.
Micah Fergenson will be the executive assistant to Norm Eisen. Fergenson most recently worked as a special assistant to the Office of Personnel Management in the Presidential Transition Team.
Matthew Kennedy. Matthew Kennedy will be the administrator to the White House Counsel's Office. Kennedy most recently served as Constituency Vote Director in New Hampshire.
Desiree Pipkins will be a staff assistant to the Counsel's office. Pipkins most recently served as the research assistant to the Presidential Transition Team's General Counsel Cassandra Butts.
Catherine
Whitney is the executive assistant to the President's Counsel, Greg Craig. Prior
to joining the White House, Mrs. Whitney served as Mr. Craig's assistant at
the firm of Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C. for ten years.
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