Greg Craig has advised heads of states and corporate executives in a wide variety of matters. He has also represented corporations, individuals and sovereign entities in criminal and civil litigations, in congressional investigations, in federal proceedings — grand jury and others — and in arbitrations. He has appeared before a wide variety of federal agencies including the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Immigration and Naturalization Services, the Office of Foreign Asset Control, the Federal Election Commission, various bureaus within the State Department and the Treasury Department.
The substance of his work has been equally wide-ranging. It includes constitutional litigation, international law, executive branch rule-making and legislative branch procedural issues.
Greg served as Assistant to the President and Special Counsel for President Clinton and was President Barack Obama’s first White House Counsel. As White House Counsel he oversaw the team that drafted the executive orders that abolished torture and re-structured policies of detention and interrogation. He played a central role in the nomination and confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Greg also served as Director of Policy Planning at the State Department for Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and was national security advisor and counsel to Senator Edward M. Kennedy.
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