Drawing on her prior experience in government service, Dana Remus advises clients on congressional investigations, government regulatory enforcement trends, public policy issues, election and political law matters, and ethics matters. Dana represents clients in a variety of industries on a range of issues, including life sciences, technology, financial services, FinTech, energy, and consumer goods. She also advises nonprofit entities and federal and state candidates and political parties.
Dana joined Covington after serving as Assistant to the President and White House Counsel for President Biden. In this role, Dana advised on a range of matters and policy initiatives, including implementation of bipartisan legislation and high-profile congressional investigations.
Dana led the Biden-Harris campaign’s legal team as General Counsel, and served as senior advisor to the Harris-Walz campaign. She served as General Counsel of the Obama Foundation, and General Counsel of the personal office of President and Mrs. Obama, and prior to that, as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Counsel for ethics in the Obama administration.
Previously, Dana was a Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law, where she specialized in legal and judicial ethics and the regulation of the legal profession. She clerked for Justice Samuel Alito of the U.S. Supreme Court of the United States and Judge Anthony Scirica of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.