Gorelick to Head BP Legal Team

Main Justice ^ | June 2, 2010 | Ryan J. Reilly

[jazusamo]

Former Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick will head the legal team for British Petroleum as it prepares to respond to legal challenges related to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Greenwire reported Wednesday.

Former Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick (photo by Ryan J. Reilly / Main Justice).

“We have been retained to help the company respond to the numerous congressional inquiries that are underway,” Gorelick, now of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, said in an e-mail to Greenwire. “We have not been retained to advocate for any position.”

Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday that the Justice Department had opened a criminal probe into who was responsible for the oil spill, but declined to name the target. Investigators are considering both civil actions and criminal charges, Holder said.

Gorelick served as Deputy Attorney General under then-Attorney General Janet Reno during the Clinton administration. Gorelick also sat on the bipartisan Sept. 11 Commission.

BP has worked with Gorelick before; she was a lobbyist in 2007 when she helped BP respond to an inquiry from the House Energy and Commerce Committee, according to Greenwire.

Kenneth Green, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, told Greenwire that Gorelick’s knowledge of the Justice Department will help BP steer “the ins and outs of the process. You want an inside player for that.”

The company that owned and leased the Deepwater Horizon rig to BP, Transocean Ltd., has recruited Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, while Halliburton Co. — which worked on the rig — has hired Patton Boggs LLP, Greenwire reported.

[small voice in the wilderness]

oops Holder with a “d”. Although Holer...

[jazusamo]

Wow! What a can of worms, one big corrupt family.

[achilles2000]

BP is trying buy political protection. Gorelick is no lawyer, she’s an affirmative action beneficiary who earns a living as a “fixer” - she is peddling influence. You won’t hear much about the real lawyers in the case - not that the law matters much any more.

[ladyjane]

she has to know something about corruption

That woman must have pictures and negatives of every important person in Washington. Where does she get her power?

[taildragger]

Co-Wink-a-Dinks....

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP... The same firm Jamie Gorelick works for.... Hmmm.... Go here..

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17964.html

Who do they have as clients?

*General Electric & Goldman Sachs.........

. http://www.wilmerhale.com/about/representativeclients/

Also Todd Stern is from Wilmer etc.....

"Todd D. Stern has been a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, focusing on climate change and environmental issues. He is also a partner at the giant law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, where he is vice chair of the firm's Public Policy and Strategy practice." "After more than a decade as a private lawyer and senior fellow with the Center for American Progress, Stern will once again attack the “complex, urgent and global threat of climate change” in the Obama administration, which has made environmental issues one of its top priorities."

Also look @ how Progressive Wilmer, Cutler etc are.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WilmerHale

At a Glance

Current Position (Mr. Stern) : Special envoy for climate change (since January 2009)

Career History: Partner at WilmerHale (since 2001);

Adviser to the Secretary of the Treasury (1999 to 2001) (Can you say Robert Rubin? if my memory is correct?);

Head of the Initiative on Global Climate Change (1997 to 1999) Alma Mater: Dartmouth College, 1973; Harvard Law School, J.D., 1977

( Who went their then that are fellow travelers???)

Now who she is on a board of and what they are into...

Schlumberger, The Corporation, Jamie Gorelick is on the board of Directors. Form their site..... Jamie S. Gorelick, 59, has been a director of the Company since 2002. She has been a Partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, an international law firm, since July 2003. Ms. Gorelick is a director of United Technologies Corporation (since 2000), a provider of high technology products and services, where she serves on its finance, compensation and public issues review committees.

Also Schlumberger, The Corporation, Jamie Gorelick is on the board of Directors of....

What are they working on? Carbon Sequestering...

http://www.slb.com/en/services/additional/carbon.aspx

[cripplecreek]

She starts out as a defender and she’ll end up running the show.

[Psycho_Bunny]

This is just like.........putting an idiot in charge of your legal team.

[DJ Frisat]

"You have GOT to be #%!king kidding me!"

LOL -- had I been home when this article was posted, I woulda beat you to it!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Of all the scum that has washed up from Washington over the past few decades, Gorelick is the most foul.

[what's up]

Is BP f***ing INSANE???

The reason Obama favored BP and took contributions is because they are European. Better than a US oil company in his view.

BP gave a $500,000,000 contract to Stephen Chu before he became Sec. of Energy for some kind of alternative fuel research.

Don't expect them to hire a right-leaning lawyer.

[Ann Archy]

She should be in PRISON!!!!!

[achilles2000]

Economic fascism in action....maybe more like the mob...

[exit82]

The fix is in.

This is not about “defense” of BP.

The corrupt players in the Administration are merely setting up the stage for the play to come, and the amount of the fine is already “negotiated”.

This is all theater. Gorelick is an operative, a politcal whore,an eltist who has handsomely profited from insider information in DC for a long time.

Everything she touches is a disaster-—but—it furthers the cause.

Now, where’s my Playbill?

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

I smell a payoff.

[SaraJohnson]

It’s a small commie world, isn’t it!

[G Larry]

let’s review her credentials and judgement:

She took it upon herself to build a wall between the Intelligence and Law Enforcement arms of the FBI, when no law required it. Thus enabling the 9/11 terrorists to prepare unchecked.

Then she was instrumental in writing banking laws requiring lending to unquailified borrowers. The increase in Federally backed lending resulted in outrageous bonuses for her. (in excess of $50M!)

[Steve Van Doorn]

exactly, but are they hiring her because she is corrupt or because she knows a lot of democrats that will help their case?

[ought-six]

What you say about Gorelick being an influence peddler is right on the mark. However, she is toxic, and that could very well end up biting BP in the butt.

[ought-six]

I understand what you are saying; but, as I commented to another poster, Gorelick is toxic, and BP could very well end up getting screwed by her “representation.”

[PA Engineer]

Unbelievable!