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Two of the Nation’s Most Successful White Collar Criminal Defense Attorneys, Bob Bennett and Carl Rauh, to Join Hogan & Hartson
WASHINGTON, D.C., September 3, 2009 -- Hogan & Hartson LLP announced today that Robert S. Bennett and Carl S. Rauh, prominent former federal prosecutors and veteran trial lawyers, will join the firm as partners in the Washington, D.C., office, following a partnership vote.
Bennett and Rauh will join from the Washington, D.C., office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP where they are partners. Among his many well-known matters, Bennett has served as former President Clinton's personal attorney, and represented former newspaper journalist Judith Miller in the CIA leak investigation. Rauh is a former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.
During Bennett’s 40-plus-year career as a trial lawyer, he and Rauh have handled numerous high-profile cases, including the representation of Enron and former Secretaries of Defense Clark Clifford in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) case and Caspar Weinberger in the Iran-Contra affair. They have handled highly-publicized settlements for a number of major international companies.
"We are delighted Bob will return to Hogan & Hartson after starting his private practice career with us years ago,” said J. Warren Gorrell, Jr., Chairman of Hogan & Hartson. "Bob and Carl's pre-eminent practice in the white collar and investigations arena make them natural fits with our existing leaders in this group. With all of the changes in the regulatory and legislative environment, we are handling a rapidly expanding number of government investigations of companies in the United States and overseas. These investigations and other anti-corruption initiatives are becoming an important part of the global economy and both Bob and Carl will be valuable additions to our team."
Bennett said, "Carl and I have worked together for nearly 30 years, most recently as Co-leaders of the international government enforcement litigation group and the criminal and civil litigation practice at our previous firm’s D.C. office. We are excited to continue to build our white collar practice at Hogan & Hartson, one of the few international law firms with an established history in D.C. and impressive regulatory capabilities, particularly in the health care, energy, and financial services industries. We look forward to working with our new colleagues, skilled litigators with years of high-level experience in this area, who have created a global and robust white collar practice."
"Our expansive regulated industry platform permits Bob and Carl to continue building upon their extraordinary litigation achievements," said Ty Cobb, longstanding head of the firm's white collar and investigations practice. "Their arrival brings yet more great talent to the experienced group we have carefully grown over the past 25 years to serve major corporations in 'bet-the-company' white collar, securities, and other enforcement investigations and trials in the United States and around the world." Bennett will join Cobb to co-head the group going forward.
Bennett and Rauh are Fellows of the American College of Trial Lawyers and Bennett is a Judge on the Court of Arbitration for Sport. In 2000 and 2006, Bennett was selected by the
National Law Journal as one of the “100 Most Influential Lawyers in America.”
About Hogan & Hartson
Hogan & Hartson is an international law firm founded in Washington, D.C., with more than 1,100 lawyers in 27 offices worldwide. The firm has a broad-based national and international practice that cuts across virtually all legal disciplines and industries.
The white collar and investigations group at Hogan & Hartson includes a number of former prosecutors and government officials who regularly advise clients on investigative matters involving external inquiries or internal reviews. The firm's lawyers are experienced in representing companies, directors, officers, and other entities and individuals at all stages of criminal and civil investigations across the full spectrum of federal agencies, tackling cases from initial agency inquiries to full-scale grand jury and U.S. Department of Justice investigations, and from preliminary government interviews to trial and beyond.
Hogan & Hartson has offices in Abu Dhabi, Baltimore, Beijing, Berlin, Boulder, Brussels, Caracas, Colorado Springs, Denver, Geneva, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Moscow, Munich, New York, Northern Virginia, Paris, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Tokyo, Warsaw, and Washington, D.C.
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www.hhlaw.com.
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