The Yale Club of Washington, D.C. invites all Yale alumni to a private virtual discussion featuring former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jessie K. Liu YLS '98 and former Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Kravis YLS '04.
According to the Department of Justice itself, its mission is: "To enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law; to ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic; to provide federal leadership in preventing and controlling crime; to seek just punishment for those guilty of unlawful behavior; and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans." In this follow-up to their program last fall on the rule of law, Jessie K. Liu YLS '98 and Jonathan Kravis YLS '04 discuss the opportunities and challenges for the Department as it seeks to fulfill this mission in 2021 and beyond. What changes, if any, should the Department make to its policies and procedures to further its duty to seek justice for all? How will the Department handle calls to investigate the activities of the Trump Administration? And what will be the impact on the Department of public opinion, politics, and the press?
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About the Speakers
Jessie K. Liu
Jessie K. Liu is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. From 2017 to 2020 she served as the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, the nation's largest United States Attorney's Office, and from 2019 to 2020, as chair of the Attorney General's Advisory Committee, a small group of United States Attorneys who advise the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General on issues affecting the United States Attorney's Offices. Earlier in her career, she was an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia, as well as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division; Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General for national security affairs; and Deputy Chief of Staff for the Department of Justice's National Security Division. Immediately prior to her appointment as United States Attorney, she served as Deputy General Counsel for the Department of the Treasury. In addition, she has been a partner at the law firms of Jenner & Block and Morrison & Foerster.
Jonathan Kravis
Jonathan Kravis is a partner in the D.C. office of Munger, Tolles & Olson where he focuses on complex civil litigation and white-collar investigations. Prior to joining the firm, he spent ten years as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Department of Justice, including two years as the Deputy Chief of the Fraud and Public Corruption Section in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia. In that role, he was a member of the government trial team in United States v. Roger Stone, in which the defendant was convicted of obstructing a congressional investigation into allegations of foreign interference in the 2016 presidential election. He has also served as Special Counsel to the Attorney General for the District of Columbia for Public Corruption, and he teaches a seminar on public corruption at the George Washington University Law School.
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