Former White House Counsel Joins Covington

Former White House Counsel Joins Covington

October 4, 2022

WASHINGTON—Dana Remus, most recently Assistant to the President and White House Counsel to President Biden, has joined Covington as a partner. She will practice in the firm’s Congressional Investigations, White Collar Defense and Investigations, Public Policy, and Election and Political Law practices.

“It is a rare and unique opportunity to bring a senior and highly respected government lawyer to the firm, and we could not do better than Dana,” said Doug Gibson, Covington’s chair. “She is uniformly regarded as a strategic, careful, brilliant, and hardworking lawyer, with an unusual combination of genuine human decency and the ability to operate at the highest levels of government and commerce. We envision Dana playing a major role across many of our practices and expect she will make important contributions across the firm for many years.”

In her role as President Biden’s White House Counsel, Dana advised on a broad and diverse set of legal issues including national security matters, domestic policy, the pandemic response, climate matters, racial justice and equity, congressional oversight, ethics and compliance, and vetting and nominations. She worked closely with Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle, including when she led the administration’s efforts to confirm Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first African-American woman on the U.S. Supreme Court. Dana also assisted President Biden in appointing the most federal judges in the first year of a presidency since the Kennedy Administration – the majority of whom are racially, ethnically, or gender diverse.

Prior to serving as White House Counsel, Dana led the Biden-Harris campaign’s legal team as General Counsel. She was responsible for all aspects of the campaign’s legal affairs, including ensuring compliance with campaign finance and election laws, managing the campaign’s corporate agreements and intellectual property, leading the campaign’s post-election litigation strategy, and overseeing the campaign’s broad internal and external legal teams.

In the Obama Administration, Dana served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Counsel for ethics, overseeing White House compliance with all ethics laws and regulations and internal ethics policies, and also advising on all legal aspects of the transition to the incoming Trump Administration. After the Obama Administration, she continued to support President Obama as general counsel for both the Office of President and Mrs. Obama and the Obama Foundation.

“I am eager to roll up my sleeves and advise Covington’s clients on their most important issues arising at the intersection of law and policy,” said Dana. “Covington’s unique mix of practice specialties, its special culture of collaboration and teamwork, and its dedication to pro bono and public service provide an excellent platform from which to make a meaningful difference both inside and outside the firm.”

At Covington, Dana will advise clients on public policy issues, government regulatory enforcement matters, election and political law matters, congressional investigations, and civil and criminal white collar and investigations matters.

Dana is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School. Following law school, she clerked for the Honorable Anthony Scirica on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the Honorable Samuel Alito on the United States Supreme Court.