

Lanny Davis
Former Special Counsel to President Bill ClintonLanny J. Davis counsels individuals, corporations and government contractors, and those under congressional scrutiny, on crisis management and legal issues by developing legal, media and legislative strategies that are designed to best produce a successful result for the client. He has experience in securities fraud and SEC investigations as well, and has found that utilizing such an integrated legal/media/lobbying approach can lead to quicker and less expensive settlements or even successfully litigated outcomes. Senior officials of public companies have also hired Lanny and his crisis group to defend themselves successfully against "short and distort" attacks and other market manipulations. For 25 years prior to 1996, before his tenure as special counsel to President Clinton, Lanny was a commercial, antitrust, government contracts and False Claims Act litigator (both in defense as well as plaintiff). He has argued numerous appellate cases in the U.S. courts of appeals.<br /> <br /> In June 2005, President Bush appointed Lanny to serve on the five-member Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, created by the U.S. Congress as part of the 2005 Intelligence Reform Act. In that capacity, he received the highest level security clearances so that he could be fully briefed and "read in" to the various anti-terrorist surveillance and financial tracking programs at the highest classified level. From 1996 to 1998, Lanny served as special counsel to the president in the White House and was a spokesperson for the president and the White House on matters concerning campaign finance investigations and other legal issues. Lanny has participated in national, state and local politics for almost 30 years. He has served three terms (1980 to 1992) on the Democratic National Committee representing the state of Maryland, and during that period he served on the DNC Executive Committee and as chairman of the Eastern Region Caucus. In Montgomery County, Maryland, he served as chairman of the Washington Suburban Transit Commission.<br /> <br /> Lanny has authored several books and lectured throughout the United States and Europe on various political issues. Between 1990 and 1996, Lanny was a bimonthly commentator on Maryland politics for WAMU-88.5/FM, a Washington, D.C. local affiliate of National Public Radio. He has been a regular television commentator and has been a political and legal analyst for MSNBC, CNN, Fox Cable, CNBC and network TV news programs. He has published numerous op-ed/analysis pieces in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, he Washington Post and other national publications.<br /> <br /> Lanny graduated from Yale Law School, where he won the prestigious Thurman Arnold Moot Court prize and served on the Yale Law Journal. A graduate of Yale University, Lanny served as chairman of the Yale Daily News.<br /> <br /> Lanny is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Connecticut and before the Supreme Court of the United States and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
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OPINION
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OPINION
VANISHING ACT: The 10 Questions James Comey Should Be Asked That The Media Has Let Him Not Answer
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OPINION
The Washington D.C. Swamp Con Remains Alive and Well
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OPINION
It's Time For A Trump Impeachment Investigation To Begin
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As Popularity Of Citizenship-By-Investment Grows, Tighter Vetting By Some Countries Should Be Recognized
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Will Trump Inadvertently Make Us A Bipartisan Nation?
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An Insight Into Donald Trump's Lack Of Basic Humanity
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Darkness vs. Light, 'I' vs. 'We'
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'Extreme Carelessness' Not Supported By The Undisputed Facts
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The Real Hillary Clinton
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The Clinton-Lynch Conversation: All Innuendo, No Facts
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The Other 2016 Election -- And Why The U.S. Should Care
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Where�s Paul Ryan's 'Declaration Of Conscience' On Trump?
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The E-Mails Issue -- Five Undisputed Facts
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Has Trump Been Caught In Another Lie?
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Two Cheers For Bernie Sanders (Not Three Yet...)
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Sanders And Trump Are Wrong: The System Isn't Rigged
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The Bernie Sanders Double Standard
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Clinton Leads Sanders By 2.5 Million Votes -- So Who Is More Popular?
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Democrats: Don't Stoop To Trump's Level
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The Clinton-Sanders New Majority Coalition
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Hillary Clinton -- Breaking Down Barriers And Bringing Us Together
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Life With My 10 Year-Old Son, Jeremy
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What 'Revolution' Senator Sanders? A Republican Revolution?
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Five Questions That Senator Sanders Owes It To Democratic Party Progressives To Answer ... Tonight Or Soon
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Whose Message Is More Effective Among Dems -- Hillary Or Bernie? No Doubt: Hillary
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Thank You, Mr. Trump -- Keep Attacking The Clintons
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Finding The Balance Between Privacy And Security In The Age Of ISIS
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Voters Deserve Real Debates, Not 'Gotcha' Questions
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Three Questions Benghazi Republicans Should Ask Clinton -- And Why They Probably Won't
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The Real Winner In Las Vegas Tuesday Night Was The Democratic Party: In Stark Contrast To The GOP
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The Curtain's Been Pulled On Gowdy's Partisan Sham
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Making News: The Media's Anti-Clinton Bias
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Nationals Park: The One Purple Place In Washington
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Hats Off To Sanders In Iowa Poll, But Clinton Has Good News, Too
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Clinton Still Leads Dems And GOP Candidates, Despite Onslaught
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Clinton And Bush -- A Teaching Moment For America
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Yes On The Iran Deal -- By An Eyelash
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Why Is The Media Picking Sides On Polling?
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Have They Lost All Sense Of Shame?