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Gregory B. Craig
Partner

202-434-5506 (phone)
202-434-5760 (fax)
gcraig@wc.com

Williams & Connolly LLP
725 Twelfth St., N.W.
Washington, DC 20005

A trial lawyer with extensive experience in a wide variety of cases, Greg Craig has successfully defended individuals and entities in a number of high-profile criminal and civil proceedings.

Civil Litigation: Examples of Mr. Craig’s civil litigation experience include the following:

In 2000, Mr. Craig successfully represented Elian Gonzalez’s father, Mr. Juan Miguel Gonzalez, in administrative and court proceedings involving Mr. Gonzalez’s effort to regain custody of his son, Elian. Also in 2000, Mr. Craig helped lead the trial team representing Warnaco in contract/license litigation with Calvin Klein and his company. In 1999, Mr. Craig represented a major corporation in a trial in which a senior executive brought suit against the company alleging age discrimination.

During the last fifteen years, Mr. Craig has represented a variety of foreign individuals and entities who have required advice and assistance with various U.S. government agencies, to list just a few: the Consular Bureau in the State Department, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Office of Foreign Asset Control in the Treasury Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission. For example, Mr. Craig represented two Chicago policemen in extradition proceedings in federal court in Chicago and brought a declaratory judgment action on their behalf in federal court in Washington, D.C. which resulted in a trial court ruling declaring the U.S. extradition statute of 1856 unconstitutional.

In 1978 to 1979, Mr. Craig represented Alexander Solzhenitsyn in a libel case in federal court in San Francisco. In 1977, he brought suit on behalf of one of the first (and lead) plaintiffs in the swine flu litigation that was subsequently consolidated by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. From 1973 to 1975, working with Edward Bennett Williams, Mr. Craig represented the clubs of the National Hockey League in antitrust litigation involving the World Hockey Association. From 1972 to 1974, working with Joseph A. Califano, Jr., Mr. Craig represented the Washington Post Company and various reporters in connection with the Watergate scandal and the grand jury investigation of Vice President Spiro Agnew.

Criminal Litigation: Examples of Mr. Craig’s criminal litigation experience include the following:

Mr. Craig has represented numerous American corporations and corporate executives who have been the subjects of grand jury investigations and/or who have also been charged with criminal offenses.

In 1990, Mr. Craig represented Senator Edward M. Kennedy as a witness in the trial of his nephew, William Kennedy Smith, in Palm Beach, Florida. In 1983 to 1984, working with Edward Bennett Williams, Mr. Craig represented a prominent businessman who was charged with tax evasion in federal court in Miami. In 1981 to 1982, working with Vince Fuller, Mr. Craig represented John Hinckley who was charged with attempted assassination of President Reagan. In 1978 to 1980, also with Edward Bennett Williams, Mr. Craig represented a prominent businessman charged with bribing a D.C. government official. In 1977, he represented the first FBI agent ever to be indicted, who was accused of illegal wiretapping, breaking and entering and mail opening in connection with the FBI investigation of the Weather Underground. That same year, working with Edward Bennett Williams, Mr. Craig represented former a Director of Central Intelligence, who was under grand jury investigation for perjury in his 1973 testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In 1975, he represented an individual charged with arson in a six week trial in federal court in Connecticut.

Other Experience: In three stints away from Williams & Connolly LLP,

Mr. Craig has served in government in a variety of capacities:

In September 1998, President Clinton appointed Mr. Craig to be Assistant to the President and Special Counsel in the White House where Mr. Craig served as quarterback of the President’s team that was assembled to defend against impeachment. Mr. Craig was also a member of the President’s trial team in the United States Senate and presented the President’s defense with respect to Count One during that trial.

In 1997, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright appointed Mr. Craig to be one of her senior advisors, and he served the Secretary as her Director of Policy Planning during the years 1997 to1998.

For five years (1984-88), he served as Senator Edward Kennedy’s Senior Advisor on Defense, Foreign Policy and National Security issues.

Mr. Craig also has taught trial practice at both Yale Law School (1975-76) and Harvard Law School (1981-84).

Education and Honors
• Yale Law School, J.D., 1972

• Cambridge University, Diploma in Historical Studies, 1968

• The Lionel DeJersey Harvard Fellowship (“The John Harvard Fellow”), 1968

• Harvard College, A.B., magna cum laude, 1967, Phi Beta Kappa

Government Service
• Assistant to the President and Special Counsel, The White House, 1998-1999

• Director of Policy Planning, United States State Department, 1997-1998

• Senior Advisor on Defense, Foreign Policy and National Security, Senator Edward Kennedy

Bar Admissions
• District of Columbia

• United States Supreme Court

• United States Courts of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Second, Third, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eleventh Circuits

• United States District Courts for the District of Columbia, Central and Northern Districts of California, District of Connecticut, Southern District of New York, District of Maryland, Northern District of Virginia, Central and Eastern Districts of Michigan, Southern District of Florida, and Central District of Alabama