Jamie Gorelick

Jamie Gorelick

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

Recognized since 2005

Washington, District of Columbia

Practice Areas

Administrative / Regulatory Law

Bet-the-Company Litigation

Commercial Litigation

Criminal Defense: White-Collar

Government Relations Practice

Litigation - Antitrust

Litigation - Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy)

Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2024 - Administrative / Regulatory Law Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2023 - Litigation - Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy) Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2021 - Administrative / Regulatory Law Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2019 - Government Relations Practice
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Contact & Links
Location
  • 2100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
    Washington, DC 20036
Education
  • Harvard University, J.D., graduated 1975
  • Harvard University, BA
Bar Admissions
  • District of Columbia, The District of Columbia Bar
  • New York, New York State Bar Association

Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2024 - Administrative / Regulatory Law Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2023 - Litigation - Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy) Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2021 - Administrative / Regulatory Law Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2019 - Government Relations Practice
Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers® for:
  • Administrative / Regulatory Law, Washington, D.C. (2024)
  • Litigation - Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy), Washington, D.C. (2023)
  • Administrative / Regulatory Law, Washington, D.C. (2021)
  • Government Relations Practice, Washington, D.C. (2019)
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2025 for work in:
  • Administrative / Regulatory Law
  • Bet-the-Company Litigation
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Criminal Defense: White-Collar
  • Government Relations Practice
  • Litigation - Antitrust
  • Litigation - Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy)
Awards:
  • Secretary of Energy Outstanding Service Award (1980)
  • Women's Bar Association Women Lawyer of the Year (1993)
  • Prominent Woman in International Law (1994)
  • Secretary of Defense Distinguished Service Award (1994)
  • Radcliffe College Alumnae Recognition Award (1997)
  • American Bar Association Margaret Brent Award (1997)
  • Equal Justice Works Outstanding Advocate of the Year (1997)
  • Department of Justice Edmund J. Randolph Award (1997)
  • Director of Central Intelligence Award (1997)
  • Wickersham Award for Exceptional Public Service and Dedication to the Legal Profession (1998)
  • American Jewish Committee Judge Learned Hand Award (1999)
  • ADL Leon and Marilyn Klinghoffer Memorial Foundation Award (received on behalf of Clinton Administration)
  • NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund Aiming High Award (2002)
  • Women's Bar Association Star of the Bar Award (2003)
  • DC Chamber of Commerce's Corporate Leadership Award (2003)
  • Bar Association of the District of Columbia Lawyer of the Year (2004)
  • Good Scout Award, National Capital Area Boy Scouts (2008)
  • Mansfield Award, National Association of Women Lawyers (2011)

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Paulette Brown: Leading the Charge

by Best Lawyers

Best Lawyers and Ms. JD Present Attorneys Across America

Leading the Charge

Jamie Gorelick Gets It Right

by Meredith Hinshaw-Chaney

Jamie Gorelick on politics, justice, and the rule of law.

Jamie Gorelick on the Rule of Law

In the News: Washington, D.C.

by Compiled by Nicole Ortiz

A summary of newsworthy content from Washington D.C. lawyers and law firms.

Washington, D.C. In the News 2018

Internet Speech in the Crosshairs

by Ari Holtzblatt and Jamie Gorelick

Charges of anti-right bias notwithstanding, online platforms are on solid ground when they defend their policies and procedures as neutral and protected by the First Amendment.

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