Douglas N. Letter
This should tell us all we need to know.
As a career public servant, Letter served details as Associate Counsel to President Clinton in the White House Counsel’s Office, as Deputy Associate Attorney General for Attorney General Janet Reno, and as Senior Counselor to Attorney General Eric Holder. Letter was elected to two terms on the D.C. Bar Board of Governors, served many years as the Solicitor General’s representative on the Judicial Conference’s committee recommending amendments to the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, and served on the Board of the D.C. Circuit Historical Society. He taught a course on national security law at George Washington University Law School for 14 years, and has lectured extensively at various law schools and D.C. Bar sessions on litigation advocacy skills and the special role and ethics of government attorneys.
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