Bingham ConsultingThurgood Marshall Jr.
Bingham McCutchen, Partner
Bingham Consulting Group, Principal
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Thurgood Marshall Jr. represents client interests before Congress, the executive branch and independent regulatory agencies. He provides guidance regarding ethics compliance and corporate governance and has developed legislative and regulatory strategies for clients involved in corporate mergers, professional and amateur sports, commercial aviation, utility and banking regulation, pharmaceuticals and legal process reforms. He has also represented numerous witnesses involved in congressional investigations.
Thurgood’s professional background includes service in each branch of the federal government and in the private sector. Prior to joining the firm, he was a member of the White House senior staff in the Clinton Administration, holding the position of assistant to the president and cabinet secretary from 1997 to 2001. In that position, he was the liaison between the president and the executive branch agencies. He served on the president’s Management Council and was a senior member of the Continuity in Government team and directed the White House responses to natural disasters and transportation emergencies, including commercial aircraft crashes. Thurgood also co-chaired the White House Olympic Task Force. In that capacity, he coordinated the involvement of the federal government in the preparations for the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Prior to his appointment as cabinet secretary, Thurgood was director of legislative affairs and deputy counsel to Vice President Al Gore. He managed all of the vice president’s legislative activities, held a position on the Senate leadership staff and played a leading role on a wide range of legislative priorities throughout the first term of the Clinton administration. Before that, he was counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation, as well as the Governmental Affairs Committee. He worked extensively on legislative initiatives ranging from antitrust, criminal procedure, corporate crime, insurance, intellectual property and telecommunications, to consumer protection, transportation safety and product liability.
Thurgood began his legal career as a law clerk to U.S. District Judge Barrington D. Parker of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
He serves on the boards of Corrections Corporation of America and the Ford Foundation and was appointed by President George W. Bush on the recommendation of Senator Harry Reid to serve as a member of the board of governors of the United States Postal Service.
- Chapter author, “The White House”, The Presidential Transition, Getting it Done: A Guide For Government Executives By The IBM Center for The Business Of Government (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc., 2009)
- Chapter co-author, “The Use of an Inner Circle of Advisers Has Made The Cabinet Less Significant: CON,” Watson & Freeman, Debating The Presidency (Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 2005)
- “Let South Africa Decide,” Legal Times
- Secretary of Transportation’s Award for Outstanding Public Service
- United States Coast Guard Distinguished Public Service Award
- Federal Government Meritorious Service Medal
- Named one of Washington’s top lawyers (Campaigns & Elections), Washingtonian
- Named one of the 100 people to watch in the new century, Newsweek
- Leading lawyer in government relations law, The Best Lawyers in America (2008-2009)
- Named on the “Best Lawyers List,” The Washington Post Magazine (2007)
- American Bar Association, Standing Committee on Election Law Advisory Commission
- National Bar Association
- Admitted to practice in the District of Columbia
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit
- U.S. District Court, District of Columbia
- University of Virginia School of Law, Juris Doctor, 1981
- University of Virginia, Bachelor of Arts, 1978
