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| | Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP practices in the following areas of law:
Antitrust; Communications and Technology; Corporate Governance and Investigations; International Trade and Investment; Litigation, including Appellate Litigation, International Arbitration, and Administrative Adjudication; Project Finance, both International and Domestic. | Firm Profile:
The Paul, Weiss Washington, D.C., office provides clients with comprehensive litigation and corporate legal services with particularly strong capabilities in the areas of antitrust, communications, corporate governance, intellectual property and international trade. We serve clients in an array of industries, including financial services, communications, technology and media. Our Washington lawyers also routinely leverage the resources of the more than 500 lawyers in the firm's other offices in New York, London, Beijing, Hong Kong and Tokyo. The attorneys based in Washington, D.C., include experienced trial and appellate advocates and sophisticated corporate advisors. They are not only prominent members of the legal community but also represent an enormous body of professional experience in private practice and the public sector. Many of our Washington attorneys have served in both the legislative and executive branches, and our partners include a former U.S. senator, a former director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition and former officials in the Department of State and the International Trade Commission. | | Firm Size: 500 |
Other Office Locations of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
New York, New York, U.S.A. (Main Office)
Beijing, China
Hong Kong, China
London, England
Tokyo, Japan
| | RESIDENT PARTNERS | | Henk Brands (Partner) admitted to bar, 1991, New York; 1996, District of Columbia. Education: Columbia University School of Law (J.D., 1990). Practice Areas: Communications; Litigation. Email: Henk Brands | | Patrick S. Campbell (Partner) born Kingston, Jamaica, August 12, 1971; admitted to bar, 1995, Maryland; 1998, District of Columbia; 2002, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: Georgetown University (B.A., cum laude, 1992); Stanford Law School (J.D., with distinction, 1995). Law Clerk, Honorable Judith W. Rogers, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1995-1996. Editor, Stanford Law Review, 1993-1995. Overseas Private Investment Corporation, 1994. Vice Chairman, Board of Directors, Street Law, Inc., 1998—. Co-Author: "Traffic Jam: The Busy Intersection of US Communications and Bankruptcy Law," Telecom Finance, November 19, 2003; "FCC Regulation of the Internet: Fact of Fiction?," New York Law Journal, June 1, 1999; republished in Telecommunications & Space Journal, Annual Edition, vol. 6, 1999; "The Internet and Intellectual Property: Toward a New Model for the Economics of Content," 4 Telecommunications & Space Journal 155, 1997; "Communications Satellite Regulation," Ch. 6 of Communications Law and Practice, 1995. Author: "The Child Online Protection Act: Like CDA (Clearly Dead on Arrival)?," Multimedia and Web Strategist, Nov. 1998. Member: The District of Columbia Bar; Maryland State Bar Association, Inc.; American Bar Association; Federal Communications Bar Association. Practice Areas: Communications and Media; Internet Law; Computers and Software. Email: Patrick S. Campbell | | Charles E. Davidow (Partner) admitted to bar, 1980, District of Columbia; 2000, New York. Education: Amherst College (B.A., 1976); Harvard University (J.D., 1979). Treasurer, Harvard Law Review. Clerk to Judge Walter R. Mansfield, 2d Circuit. Adjunct Professor (Corporations), Georgetown University, 1991. Practice Areas: Securities; Civil Practice. | | Kenneth A. Gallo (Partner) born Ridgewood, New Jersey, November 16, 1956; admitted to bar, 1983, District of Columbia, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit; 2000, U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit; 2001, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 2002, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit. Education: University of Georgia (B.A., magna cum laude, 1978); University of Georgia School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1982). Order of Barristers. Notes Editor, Georgia Law Review, 1981-1982. Law Clerk, Honorable George L. Hart, Jr., United States District Court for the District of Columbia, 1982-1983. Practice Areas: Antitrust; Intellectual Property; Litigation. Email: Kenneth A. Gallo | | Alex Young K. Oh (Partner) born Seoul, South Korea; admitted to bar, 1994, New York, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit and U.S. District Court, District of Maryland; 1999, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 2001, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; 2004, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 2007, District of Columbia and U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Education: Williams College (B.A., English Literature, 1990); Yale University (J.D., 1993). Notes Editor, Yale Law Journal. Editor, Yale Journal of Law and Feminism. Law Clerk, Honorable Paul V. Niemeyer, U.S. Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, 1993-1994. Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York, 1997-2000. Associate, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, 1994-1996. Member, Criminal Justice Act Panel, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, Criminal Law Committee and Judiciary Committee); American Bar Association. Languages: Korean. Practice Areas: White Collar Crime; Regulatory Law; Internal Investigations; Complex Commercial Litigation; Civil Litigation. Email: Alex Young K. Oh | | Robert P. Parker (Partner) born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 2, 1960; admitted to bar, 1984, Pennsylvania; 1985, District of Columbia; 1986, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: Johns Hopkins University (B.A., with honors, 1981); Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (1980-1981); University of Pennsylvania (J.D., cum laude, 1984). Law Clerk, Hon. Oscar H. Davis, Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (1984-1985). Counsel to the Chairman, U.S. International Trade Commission, 1988-1991. Adjunct Professor, George Mason University Law School (1996-1997), Officer (1995-1998) and President (1999), International Trade Commission Trial Lawyers Association. Practice Areas: Litigation; International Trade; Federal Administrative Law. Email: Robert P. Parker | | Joseph J. Simons (Partner) born May 4, 1958; admitted to bar, 1983, District of Columbia; 1984, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia and U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit; 1988, U.S. Supreme Court; 1989, New York; 1992, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. Education: Cornell University (A.B., 1980); Georgetown University (J.D., cum laude, 1983). Editor, Tax Lawyer, 1982-1983. Co-Author: with S. Salop, "A Practical Guide to Mergers Analysis," 29 Antitrust Bulletin 663 (1984); with B. Harris, "Focusing Market Definition," 12 J. Research in Law and Econ. 207 (1989); "Fixing Price With Your Victim: Efficiency and Collusion with Competitor-Based Formula Pricing Clauses," 17 Hofstra L.R. 599 (1989); with John E. Lopatka, "Real Estate Multiple-Listing Services and Antitrust Revisited," Electronic Services Networks: A Business And Public Policy Challenge 206 (Eds. M. Guerin-Calvert and S. Wildman: 1991); with A. Williams and R. McAfee, "New U.S. Merger Enforcement Guidelines: Competitive Effects," 21 International Merger Law 6, May 1992; with R.P. McAfee and M. Williams, "Horizontal Mergers in Spatially Differentiated Noncooperative Markets," 40 Journal of Industrial Economics 349 (1992); with M. Williams, "The Renaissance of Market Definition," 38 Antitrust Bulletin 799 (1993); co-author of chapters on Vertical Mergers, Conglomerate Mergers, and Potential Competition, Mergers and Acquisitions; Understanding the Antitrust Issues (ABA: 2000). Director, Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission, 2001-2003; Associate Director, Assistant Director and Assistant to the Director, Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission, 1987- 1989. Member: The District of Columbia Bar; American Bar Association, (Vice Chair, FTC Committee, 1996-1998; Member, Antitrust Law Section); American Economic Association. Practice Areas: Antitrust; Litigation. Email: Joseph J. Simons | | RESIDENTS OF COUNSEL | | Terence J. Fortune (Retired Partner) born Watertown, New York, December 27, 1946; admitted to bar, 1975, District of Columbia; 1976, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; 1977, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit; 1989, New York. Education: Georgetown University (B.A, 1969; J.D., 1974). Assistant Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State, 1977-1983. Member: The District of Columbia Bar; New York State Bar Association; American Society of International Law. Email: Terence J. Fortune | | Robert E. Montgomery, Jr. (Of Counsel) born Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 15, 1939; admitted to bar, 1970, California; 1975, U.S. Supreme Court; 1976, District of Columbia; 1984, New York. Education: United States Military Academy (B.S., 1960); Rhodes Scholar, Magdalen College of Oxford University, Oxford, England (M.A., 1963); Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California (J.D., 1969). Editor-in-Chief, California Law Review, 1968-1969. Assistant to General Counsel, Department of Army, 1969-1971. General Counsel, Office of Consumer Affairs, Executive Office of the President, 1971-1972. Assistant General Counsel, Federal Trade Commission, 1973. General Counsel, Federal Energy Administration, 1974-1975. [With U.S. Army, Inf., Capt., 1960-1966 and JAGC, Major, 1967-1971]. Practice Areas: International Trade and Arbitration; Intellectual Property; Antitrust; Energy. Email: Robert E. Montgomery, Jr. | | Lionel H. Olmer (Of Counsel) born New Haven, Connecticut, November 11, 1934; admitted to bar, 1963, Connecticut; 1979, District of Columbia. Education: University of Connecticut (B.A., 1957); Washington College of Law of American University (J.D., 1963); National War College. Recipient, Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Connecticut, 1998. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, 1981-1985. Member, Board of Directors: International Rescue Committee, 1977—; SIPEX Corporation; Nixon Center. Member, Council on Foreign Relations. Member: Connecticut Bar Association; The District of Columbia Bar. Practice Areas: International Trade and Investment; Communications. Email: Lionel H. Olmer | | Warren B. Rudman (Of Counsel) born Boston, Massachusetts, May 18, 1930; admitted to bar, 1960, New Hampshire; 1994, District of Columbia. Education: Syracuse University (B.S., 1952); Boston College of Law (J.D., 1960). U.S. Senator from New Hampshire, 1981-1992. Member, Board of Directors: Chubb Corporation, 1993—; Raytheon Corporation, 1993—; Board of Directors of several funds of the Dreyfus Corporation, 1993—; Collins Aikman, 1995—; Boston Scientific, 1999—; Allied Waste Industries, Inc., 1997. Co-founder, Concord Coalition (a non-profit organization set up as a grassroots movement to awaken the American people to the gravity of our nation's fiscal crisis), 1992—. Former Chairman, President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Member, Board of Directors, Council on Foreign Relations and serving on Senior Advisory Committee, Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Member: New Hampshire Bar Association; District of Columbia Bar Association. [Captain, U.S. Army, 1952-1954]. (Also in New York, New York Office). Email: Warren B. Rudman | | COUNSEL | | Patricia C. Crowley (Counsel) born Framingham, Massachusetts; admitted to bar, 1994, Maryland; 1999, District of Columbia. Education: Trinity University (B.A., 1990); Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America (J.D., 1994). Email: Patricia C. Crowley | | Richard S. Elliott (Counsel) born New York, N.Y., November 8, 1955; admitted to bar, 1981, District of Columbia; 1988, U.S. Court of International Trade and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; 1990, New York. Education: Trinity College (B.A., 1977); Princeton University (M.P.A., 1981); Columbia University (J.D., 1981). Phi Beta Kappa; Pi Gamma Mu. Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Attorney-Adviser, U.S. Department of State, 1981-1984. Member: The District of Columbia Bar (Member, Section on International Law); American Bar Association (Member, Section on International Law and Practice); Washington Foreign Law Society; Washington International Trade Association. Practice Areas: International Trade; International Investment; International Finance; National Security. Email: Richard S. Elliott | | Ji Lu (Counsel) born Shanghai, China, March 21, 1970; admitted to bar, 1998, New York; 2001, District of Columbia. Education: Grinnell College (B.A., 1993); New York University (J.D., 1997). Member: The District of Columbia Bar. Practice Areas: Corporate Law. Email: Ji Lu | | Jeffrey H. Olson (Counsel) born Ottumwa, Iowa, June 11, 1950; admitted to bar, 1975, Ohio; 1978, U.S. Supreme Court; 1979, District of Columbia. Education: Wittenberg University (B.A., 1972); Cleveland State University (J.D., cum laude, 1975). Order of the Barristers. Chairman, Moot Court, 1974-1975. Recipient, West Publishing Company Moot Court Award, 1975. Co-Author: "Computers and RF Emissions: The FCC's New Rules," 6 The Computer Lawyer No. 7, 1989; "Recent Changes in the FCC's Earth Station Rules," Via Satellite, September 1993. Lecturer in Law, 1975-1976 and Adjunct Professor, 1977-1978, Cleveland State University College of Law. Lecturer, Appellate Practice, Cuyahoga County Bar Association, 1977-1978. Clinical Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, 1981-1983. Member: The District of Columbia Bar; Federal Communications Bar Association (Member, 1980-1996 and Chairman, 1984-1985 and 1991-1992, Committee on Judicial Practice; Member, Broadcast Matters Subcommittee, 1981-1984 and Member, Non-Broadcast Matters Subcommittee, 1982-1984, Committee on Practice and Procedure; Member: Committee on Legislation, 1985-1987, 1991-1995; Committee on International Practice, 1986-1996). Reported Cases: FCC v. WNCN Listeners Guild, 450 U.S. 582 (1981); FCC v. Midwest Video Corp., 440 U.S. 689 (1979); Columbia Communications Corp. v. FCC, 832 F.2d 189 (D.C.Cir. 1987); NY State Comm. on Cable Television v. FCC, 749 F.2d 804 (D.C. Cir. 1984); Black Citizens for a Fair Media v. FCC, 719 F.2d 407 (D.C.Cir. 1983); Office of Communication of United Church of Christ v. FCC, 707 F.2d 1413 (D.C.Cir. 1983); New South Media Corp. v. FCC, 685 F.2d 708 (D.C.Cir. 1982); Central Florida Enterprises, Inc. v. FCC, 683 F.2d 503 (D.C.Cir. 1982); NAACP v. FCC, 682 F.2d 993 (D.C.Cir. 1982); U.S. v. Western Electric Co., 569 F. Supp. 1057 (D.D.C. 1983); U.S. v. American Tel. & Tel. Co., 552 F. Supp. 131 (D.D.C. 1982). Practice Areas: Communications Law. Email: Jeffrey H. Olson | | RESIDENT ASSOCIATES | | Craig A. Benson (Associate) | | Karen L. Berenthal (Associate) (Admission pending) | | Danielle Monnig Clark (Associate) | | Anna Odella Crowell (Associate) (Not admitted in District of Columbia) | | Whitney R. Dougherty (Associate) (Admission pending) | | Aaron M. Futch (Associate) | | Diane C. Gaylor (Associate) | | Ludovic C. Ghesquiere (Associate) (Admitted in Maryland; Not admitted in District of Columbia) | | Katherine L. Halpin (Associate) | | Donna M. Ioffredo (Associate) (Admitted in Texas; Not admitted in District of Columbia) | | Kent E. Kemeny (Associate) (Admitted in California; Not admitted in District of Columbia) | | Brett M. Kitt (Associate) | | Jonathan M. Lave (Associate) | | Nima R. Taylor (Associate) | | Jose Manuel Tesoro (Associate) (Admission pending) | | Claudia R. Tobler (Associate) (Admitted in Massachusetts; Not admitted in District of Columbia); (Also at New York, N.Y. Office). | | Mitchell P. Zeff (Associate) (Admitted in Illinois; Not admitted in District of Columbia) | Other Office Addresses: Links to Other Offices
New York, N.Y. Office: 1285 Avenue of the Americas, 10019-6064. Telephones: 212-373-3000, TDD 212-373-2000. Facsimile: 212-757-3990.
London, England Office: Alder Castle, 10 Noble Street, London, EC2V 7JU. Telephone: +44(0)20 7367 1600. Fax: +44(0)20 7367 1650.
Tokyo, Japan Office: Fukoku Seimei Building, 2-2 Uchisaiwaicho 2-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0011, Japan. Telephone: (81-3) 3597-8101. Facsimile: (81-3)3597-8120.
Beijing, China Office: Unit 3601, Fortune Plaza Office, Tower A, No. 7 Dong Sanhuan Zhonglu, Chao Yang District, 100020. Telephone: +86-10 5828-6300. Facsimile: +86-10 6530-9070/9080.
Hong Kong, China Office: 12th Floor, Hong Kong Club Building, 3A Chater Road, Central Hong Kong. Telephone: 011 (852) 2536-9933. Facsimile: 011 (852) 2536-9622.
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