Ed–he’s a partner at one of the largest law firms in D.C. and has taught at Harvard and Yale law schools. Don’t tar a lawyer because of the clients s/he has had. Even Ken Starr has represented two convicted murderers (one pro bono) in the last several year.

jim m on November 17, 2008 at 9:31 AM

Right. Could you see Reagan appointing as his White Counsel the attorney who defended Lee Harvey Oswald?

–Would have been tough, since Jack Ruby killed Oswald pretty quickly.

Gregory Craig was also special counsel to the White House in the Clinton administration and apparently knows his way around Washington.

Ed–did the call center company you worked for handle any operations for any of the tobacco companies or any of the companies that are outsourcing US jobs? Did your call center company end up causing the loss of any US jobs?

jim m on November 17, 2008 at 9:43 AM

Here’s his bio from the law firm’s website. Remember that this is the alleged killer of a US soldier. Ken Starr represented two convicted killers, one for free. How does that make you feel about Ken Starr and what do you think those victims’ families think?
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Civil Litigation: Examples of Mr. Craig’s civil litigation experience include the following:

In 2000, Mr. Craig successfully represented Elian Gonzalez’s father, Mr. Juan Miguel Gonzalez, in administrative and court proceedings involving Mr. Gonzalez’s effort to regain custody of his son, Elian. Also in 2000, Mr. Craig helped lead the trial team representing Warnaco in contract/license litigation with Calvin Klein and his company. In 1999, Mr. Craig represented a major corporation in a trial in which a senior executive brought suit against the company alleging age discrimination. Most recently, Mr. Craig represented the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in connection with the Volcker Commission’s investigation of the Oil-for-Food Programme at the U.N.

During the last fifteen years, Mr. Craig has represented a variety of foreign individuals and entities who have required advice and assistance with various U.S. government agencies, to list just a few: the Consular Bureau in the State Department, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Office of Foreign Asset Control in the Treasury Department, and the Securities and Exchange Commission. For example, Mr. Craig represented two Chicago policemen in extradition proceedings in federal court in Chicago and brought a declaratory judgment action on their behalf in federal court in Washington, D.C. which resulted in a trial court ruling declaring the U.S. extradition statute of 1856 unconstitutional.

From 1978 to 1979, Mr. Craig represented Alexander Solzhenitsyn in a libel case in federal court in San Francisco. In 1977, he brought suit on behalf of one of the first (and lead) plaintiffs in the swine flu litigation that was subsequently consolidated by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. From 1973 to 1975, working with Edward Bennett Williams, Mr. Craig represented the clubs of the National Hockey League in antitrust litigation involving the World Hockey Association. From 1972 to 1974, working with Joseph A. Califano, Jr., Mr. Craig represented the Washington Post Company and various reporters in connection with the Watergate scandal and the grand jury investigation of Vice President Spiro Agnew.

Criminal Litigation: Examples of Mr. Craig’s criminal litigation experience include the following:

Mr. Craig has represented numerous American corporations and corporate executives who have been the subjects of grand jury investigations and/or who have also been charged with criminal offenses.

In 1990, Mr. Craig represented Senator Edward M. Kennedy as a witness in the trial of his nephew, William Kennedy Smith, in Palm Beach, Florida. In 1983 to 1984, working with Edward Bennett Williams, Mr. Craig represented a prominent businessman who was charged with tax evasion in federal court in Miami. In 1981 to 1982, working with Vince Fuller, Mr. Craig represented John Hinckley who was charged with the attempted assassination of President Reagan. In 1978 to 1980, also with Edward Bennett Williams, Mr. Craig represented a prominent businessman charged with bribing a D.C. government official. In 1977, he represented the first FBI agent ever to be indicted, who was accused of illegal wiretapping, breaking and entering, and mail opening in connection with the FBI investigation of the Weather Underground. That same year, working with Edward Bennett Williams, Mr. Craig represented a former Director of Central Intelligence, who was under grand jury investigation for perjury in his 1973 testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In 1975, he represented an individual charged with arson in a six week trial in federal court in Connecticut.

Other Experience: In three stints away from Williams & Connolly LLP, Mr. Craig has served in government in a variety of capacities:

In September 1998, President Clinton appointed Mr. Craig to be Assistant to the President and Special Counsel in the White House where Mr. Craig served as quarterback of the President’s team that was assembled to defend against impeachment. Mr. Craig was also a member of the President’s trial team in the United States Senate and presented the President’s defense with respect to Count One during that trial.

In 1997, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright appointed Mr. Craig to be one of her senior advisors, and he served the Secretary as her Director of Policy Planning during the years 1997 to 1998.

For five years (1984-1988), he served as Senator Edward Kennedy’s Senior Advisor on Defense, Foreign Policy and National Security issues.

Mr. Craig also has taught trial practice at both Yale Law School (1975-1976) and Harvard Law School (1981-1984

jim m on November 17, 2008 at 9:49 AM