02-04-2025
Law firms must sometimes take on clients the White House detests
Gregory B. Craig was assistant to the president and special counsel for Bill Clinton from 1998-1999 and White House counsel for Barack Obama from 2009-2010.
On March 30, 1981, I was a young partner at the law firm of Williams & Connolly working for the firm's senior partner, Edward Bennett Williams, the leading trial lawyer of his generation and one of the greatest in American history.
