Edward E. McNally (S&B 1979)
Attorney Yale University. Skull and Bones. University of Notre Dame Law School. London School of Economics. [2]
A frequent public speaker, Mr. McNally previously served as a visiting professor at Beijing University on U.S. constitutional law, in his capacity as America’s first Henry Luce Scholar (S&B 1920) to serve in the People’s Republic of China.[2]
Edward E. McNally is a former United States Attorney and Assistant U.S. Attorney who, following the September 11th attacks, was appointed by the President as the nation’s first General Counsel for homeland security and counter-terrorism…[2]
With over two decades of federal, prosecutorial and law enforcement experience, including in the leadership at Criminal Division headquarters of the U.S. Department of Justice, in the Office of the Counsel to the President of the United States, and as an Assistant U.S.[2]
Attorney under Rudy Giuliani in New York, Mr. McNally (S&B 1979) is a trial and appellate lawyer whose practice includes affirmative recoveries, antitrust, commercial disputes, business and other civil litigation, corporate governance, and internal investigations for fraud, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), public corruption and other matters.[2]
He routinely leads the defense of white collar criminal cases, grand jury, antitrust and other investigations by federal, state and overseas government agencies, particularly in cases involving the FBI, the Department of Justice, SEC and state and regulatory authorities. As to these and other capabilities, the Attorney General of the United States called Mr. McNally a “smart, energetic, highly capable, and very effective attorney” with a “reputation for legal excellence, leadership, people skills and communications expertise,” and describes him as “a full package lawyer” who has been “repeatedly Initiated to take on enormous national challenges.”[2]
In this work Mr. McNally has appeared in courts throughout the U.S. and served as an advisor to three presidents, seven attorneys general and prominent CEOs and companies. He has participated in courtroom and other clashes involving the response to epic challenges such as the Sept. 11th attacks, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Tiananmen Square, both Gulf Wars, and the largest criminal antitrust investigation in history, and has led representations on major civil, regulatory, criminal and other matters for Fortune 10 and other corporations and executives. In addition to obtaining for our clients affirmative recoveries numbering in the hundreds of millions of dollars, a core specialty is litigation, trials and crisis management for companies and individuals facing significant risk in multiple forums, including simultaneous civil and criminal litigation and investigations by federal grand juries, state AGs, Inspector Generals, SEC, FTC, regulators, Congress and the press.[2]
2006 to 2009 - Senior Counsel, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Attorny General Alberto Gonzales, Michael Mukasey and Eric Holder by President George W. Bush (S&B 1968)
2005 to 2006 - United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois
2001 to 2005 - General Counsel, Homeland Security Council, the White House by President George W. Bush (S&B 1968)
2001 to 2005 - Senior Associate Counsel to the President of the United States by President George W. Bush (S&B 1968)
1994 - The Deputy Attorney General for the State of Alaska.
1991 to 1994 - District Attorney for Anchorage.
1989 to 1991 - Speechwriter to the President of the United States by President George H. W. Bush (S&B 1948). Included Whitehouse response to Tiananmen Square Massacre.
1986 to 1991 - Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York
1982 to 1985 - Special Assistant to the Attorney General’s Chief of Staff, Attorney General William French Smith (Bohemian), U.S. Department of Justice by President Bill Clinton (Rhodes 1968)
1979 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[1]
[2] - Kasowitz.com - Edward E McNally
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