Adam Goldberg, a partner in the Washington, D.C., office, is co-leader of the firm's Public Strategies and Crisis Practice and is a member of Orrick's Litigation Group. Mr. Goldberg focuses on providing clients strategic and crisis communications and public affairs counsel to support and further their legal objectives. His counsel includes advising clients on regulatory, congressional and criminal investigations; transactions; crisis prevention, mitigation, and response for potential and current high-profile matters; and strategic government-relations campaigns.
He has worked for public and private companies and individuals across many industries, including the financial, pharmaceutical, automotive, telecommunications, hospitality, technology and hedge-fund sectors. This work has included advising clients that have sought to build support or opposition to transactions; that have had to defend themselves publicly against litigants, regulators, and short attacks; and that have had to work with the media in connection with other legal matters.
Mr. Goldberg also provides clients with appellate counsel, including having successfully briefed an important legal precedent for tribal sovereign immunity in the D.C. Circuit.
Mr. Goldberg served in the White House as Special Associate Counsel to the President from 1996 to 1999, providing advice on crisis communications and political strategy for the campaign finance, Monica Lewinsky, technology-transfer and other investigations. Serving as a White House spokesman on such issues, Mr. Goldberg worked on the congressional, Department of Justice and independent counsel inquiries.
He is an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law School, where he teaches a class on crisis management and communications, and lectures on the topics frequently to different audiences.
Mr. Goldberg is also the co-author of published articles on congressional investigations and crisis communications.
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