John A. Eisenberg - Partner

• Litigation
• Appellate Litigation
• Antitrust & Competition
• White Collar Criminal Defense & Securities Enforcement

• 2010, District of Columbia

  2005, California

• Associate Deputy Attorney General, March 2008 - February 2009
• Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, March 2006 - March 2008
• Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, June 2005 - March 2006
• Special Assistant for Counterterrorism, Office of Legal Counsel, July 2004 - June 2005
• Law Clerk to the Hon. Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court of the United States, July 2003 - June 2004
• Special Assistant, Office of Legal Counsel, July 2002 - July 2003
• Law Clerk to the Hon. J. Michael Luttig, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, July 2001 - July 2002

• Yale Law School, J.D., 2001
  
  Yale Law Journal, Articles Editor
• Stanford University, B.S., Mathematics, 1991

Professional Profile

John Eisenberg is a partner in Kirkland’s Washington office. His practice focuses on general and appellate litigation, white collar criminal defense, internal investigations, antitrust, and national security matters.

From 2004 to 2009, Mr. Eisenberg served at the Department of Justice in various capacities. His responsibilities centered on national security, including intelligence and counterterrorism issues. Both as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel and as an Associate Deputy Attorney General, Mr. Eisenberg advised the Attorney General, the Deputy Attorney General, the Counsel to the President, the Legal Advisor to the National Security Council, the General Counsel of the Department of Defense, and various general counsels in the Intelligence Community on complicated national security matters. As an Associate Deputy Attorney General, Mr. Eisenberg oversaw the national security functions of the Department of Justice, including litigation of various issues throughout the Nation and in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review; the Department’s role with respect to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States; and designations under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and similar authorities. Mr. Eisenberg also worked on various cybersecurity initiatives and played an important role in helping to secure important legislative reforms, including amending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

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Other Distinctions

Attorney General's Award for Excellence in Furthering the Interests of U.S. National Security, October 2007.

Assistant Attorney General Award for Special Initiative, National Security Division, December 2008

Intelligence Community Legal Award for Team of the Year 2008

Intelligence Community Legal Award for Team of the Year 2007

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Publications

Kirkland Alert on the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009

Kirkland Alert on Antitrust and Department of Justice