GC Influencers
Most Influential GCs - USA
Douglas Letter of U.S. House of Representatives
Few lawyers are as well-equipped to handle the maelstrom of legal and legislative issues faced by the House of Representatives’ general counsel as Douglas Letter. His impeccable record of public service has seen him accumulate 40 years of experience defending the government’s agenda under successive Republican and Democratic administrations, serving most recently as director of the appellate staff in the Civil Division of the Department of Justice until his retirement from the agency in early 2018.
In his current role, Letter faces the unenviable task of advising on a barrage of subpoenas, litigation and wider oversight issues following the Democratic Party’s success in the 2018 midterm elections, directed at the President, his staffers and a broad spectrum of corporate and financial entities. Last year also saw Letter make his second argument before the US Supreme Court to challenge an attempt by the Trump Administration to place a question over citizenship on the upcoming 2020 Census.