Elaine W. Stone

Elaine Stone is a partner in the firm’s White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice Group and a member of Covington’s Management Committee.  Her recent matters include lead roles in advising the Board of a major national healthcare company with respect to transforming its culture into one of compliance; in conducting sensitive and high-profile investigations on behalf of Special Committees of Boards of Directors, including those of HP and Adelphia Communications Corporation; and in assisting the World Bank’s Department of Institutional Integrity with respect to allegations of corruption in a major African aid program.

Prior to joining Covington, Ms. Stone served as Counsel to the Impeachment Trial Committee of the United States Senate; as Associate Counsel to the AEI-Brookings Project on the Independent Counsel Project, headed by former Senate leaders George Mitchell and Bob Dole; and as an Assistant District Attorney in Nueces County, Texas.

Representative Matters

• Representation of the Special Committee of the Board of Directors, HP, in its investigation of the use of “pretexting” by private investigators.
• Representation of the Special Committee of the Board of Directors, Adelphia Communications Corporation, in its internal investigation of wrongdoing by members of the Rigas family.
• Board monitor for a national health care company under criminal and civil investigation; representation included full review of compliance policies and practices, internal investigations of alleged misconduct by executives, and recommendations as to corrective actions.
• Representation of an international telecommunications carrier in a criminal antitrust investigation, which was closed by the Justice Department.

Previous Experience

• AEI-Brookings Project on the Independent Counsel Statute, headed by former Senate leaders George Mitchell and Bob Dole, Associate Counsel (1998-1999)
• Impeachment Trial Committee on the Articles Against Judge Alcee L. Hastings, United States Senate, Counsel (1989)
• Assistant District Attorney, Corpus Christi, Texas (1984-1985) 

Pro Bono

• Representation of individual convicted of murder and sentenced to life without possibility of parole in West Virginia state habeas proceedings.

Publications and Speeches

• "The Genesis of the Independent Counsel Statute," The Brookings Institution (6/1/1999), Author