Williams & Connolly LLP attorneys often represent former high government officials in their transitions to the private sector. We assist them with law firm partnerships, investment banking deals, publishing agreements, speakers' bureau contracts, teaching or educational administration contracts, column syndication agreements, and many other matters. Clients have included President William Jefferson Clinton; Vice President Dan Quayle; Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright, James Baker, and George Shultz; Education Secretary and Drug Policy Director William Bennett; Drug Policy Director General Barry McCaffrey; Health and Human Resources Secretary Donna Shalala; Commerce Secretary Bill Daley; Labor Secretary Lynn Martin; Treasury Secretary Larry Summers; Education Secretary Lamar Alexander; Presidential Advisors George Stephanopoulos, Dee Dee Myers, Marlin Fitzwater, Mike McCurry, and Gene Sperling; former members of the U.S. Senate and House, including Sam Nunn, Tom Foley, Tillie Fowler, Tom Bliley, Geraldine Ferraro, and many more. Depending upon the client's needs, these engagements draw upon our experience in other areas, such as general corporate counseling, partnerships, joint ventures, strategic alliances and LLCs, intellectual property, and media.