William Burck

Burck, a former federal prosecutor and veteran lawyer in Washington, represented a number of Trump administration officials in the special counsel investigation into possible ties between the campaign and Russia in Mr. Trump’s first term. In Trump’s second term, Burck has also worked on behalf of a law firm that Mr. Trump wanted to punish because one of its former lawyers, Mark F. Pomerantz, had pushed to prosecute Mr. Trump in New York City. Burck helped negotiate a deal between that firm and the White House in which the firm, Paul Weiss, agreed to $40 million in pro bono legal work for causes the administration supports. Trump has directed his sons to fire an outside ethics counsel for the family business because the lawyer also represents Harvard University, one of Trump’s targets in his crackdown on the nation’s top colleges. Burck is co-head of the Washington, D.C. office of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and Chair of the firm's D.C. White Collar and Corporate Investigations Group. Burck is a trial lawyer who represents companies, boards of directors and senior executives in investigations, sensitive matters, corporate crises, litigation and other disputes involving the federal and state governments of the United States (including the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), District Attorney's Offices, State Attorneys General, other law enforcement and regulatory agencies, and the United States Congress) and governments of Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Burck is former Special Counsel and Deputy Counsel to President George W. Bush in Washington, D.C., and a former federal prosecutor in New York City. In his role as a senior official at the White House, Mr. Burck provided legal advice to the President and senior White House officials on a wide range of issues, including congressional and other government investigations, national security and foreign affairs, the financial crisis of 2008, and complex constitutional questions. During his time as a senior official in the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice and as an Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. Yale Law School (J.D., 1998) Yale University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1993)