December 14, 2022 – New Legal Tools to Combat Emerging Foreign Threats with Carter Burwell

Event: New Legal Tools to Combat Emerging Foreign Threats
Date: Rescheduled for Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Time: 12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m.
Location: Belo Mansion, 2101 Ross Ave., Dallas, TX 75201
CLE Credit: CLE credit is pending

Carter Burwell is litigation counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Debevoise & Plimpton.  His practice focuses on white collar criminal defense, government investigations and internal investigations, and national security matters.  Prior to Debevoise, he served as Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Finance Intelligence, Chief Counsel to U.S. Senator John Cornyn, and Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of New York and Eastern District of Virginia prosecuting national security and international crimes.

Earlier on in his career, Mr. Burwell served as a law clerk to U.S. District Court Judge John Gleeson, now a Debevoise litigation partner, before going on to clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit for the Hon. Judge Karen Henderson.  Mr. Burwell was also a litigation associate at another international law firm.

Mr. Burwell received his J.D. from the University Virginia School of Law in 2002, an M.Phil from the University of Cambridge in 1998, and his B.A. from Columbia College in 1996.

November 16, 2022 – Racial Classifications and the Indian Child Welfare Act: Litigating Brackeen v. Haaland with Matthew McGill

Event: Racial Classifications and the Indian Child Welfare Act: Litigating Brackeen v. Haaland
Date: Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Time: 12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m.
Location: Belo Mansion, 2101 Ross Ave., Dallas, TX 75201
CLE Credit: CLE credit is pending

Matthew D. McGill is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Co-Chair of the firm’s Judgment and Arbitral Award Enforcement and Betting and Gaming practice groups. He also is a member of the firm’s Appellate and Constitutional Law and Sports Law practice groups.

A three-time “Litigator of the Week” (The AmLaw Litigation Daily) Mr. McGill has been ranked by Chambers USA in Nationwide Appellate Law and recognized by The National Law Journal as a “Litigation Trailblazer” for his pioneering work enforcing judgments against foreign sovereigns. In 2020, he successfully negotiated a $335 million resolution of terrorism claims against the Republic of Sudan arising from the 1998 bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Previously, he successfully resolved NML Capital’s multi-billion dollar claims against the Republic of Argentina after what the Financial Times called “the trial of the century in sovereign debt restructuring.” He currently represents clients in public enforcement matters against the governments of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, Pakistan, Spain, and Venezuela.

An accomplished appellate advocate, Mr. McGill has participated in 23 cases before the Supreme Court of the United States, prevailing in 17. His oral argument in Brackeen v. Haaland is scheduled for November 9, 2022.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Mr. McGill served as a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice. He clerked for the Hon. Joseph M. McLaughlin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Hon. John G. Roberts, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Mr. McGill earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, from Dartmouth College in 1996. In 2000, he graduated from Stanford Law School, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif.