Law firms Fielding began his career as a summer associate at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in 1963. Fielding was a senior partner at
Wiley Rein LLP (formerly Wiley Rein & Fielding), a
Washington, D.C. law firm, and in 2009, Fielding joined
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP as a partner in the firm's Washington office. In 2007, he represented, along with others,
Blackwater Worldwide, a
private military company. Following the
Blackwater Baghdad shootings,
Henry Waxman's
House Oversight Committee subpoenaed its
chief executive officer Erik Prince to testify. The climate of opinion among politicians and the public at large jeopardized its contracts to provide security for
State Department personnel in
Iraq.
Presidential administrations Richard Nixon Fielding served as Associate Counsel for
President Richard Nixon from 1970 to 1972, where he was the deputy to
John Dean during the
Watergate scandal. He then returned to Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. Many years previously, former
White House Chief of Staff for
Richard Nixon,
H. R. Haldeman, also speculated that Fielding was Deep Throat. That speculation ended after former Associate Director of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation Mark Felt announced in May 2005 that he was Deep Throat, as later confirmed by Woodward, Bernstein and Executive Editor
Ben Bradlee in a statement released through
The Washington Post.
Ronald Reagan He was the
Counsel to the President for President
Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1986.
George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton Fielding served on the Tribunal on the U.S.-UK Air Treaty Dispute (1989–1994),
George H. W. Bush's
Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform (1989), and
Secretary of Transportation Rodney E. Slater's Task Force on Aviation Disasters (1997–1998).
9/11 Commission In 2002, Fielding, became one of ten bipartisan members of the
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9/11 Commission), where he was credited with helping to persuade the Bush administration to be more transparent with the commission than the administration had initially planned to be. Fielding was responsible for approving the pardon issued by President Bush to convicted real estate fraudster
Isaac Toussie. When the
New York Daily News reported that Toussie had made large contributions to the Republican Party, the
White House revoked the pardon the next day. According to
Time magazine in July 2009, Fielding opposed Vice President
Dick Cheney's request that President Bush issue a full pardon to convicted vice presidential aide
Scooter Libby. Following Fielding's advice, Bush ended up not pardoning Libby.
Donald Trump Fielding served on president-elect
Donald Trump's legal team. Fielding's work for Trump was announced by his Morgan, Lewis colleague,
Sheri Dillon, when she spoke at Trump's January 11, 2017, a day after a leaked document alleged the Trump campaign's long suspected collusion with Russian efforts to derail his presidential campaign competitor
Hillary Clinton.
Russia Fielding has published legal articles on the topics of presidential counsel and
Russia and
Ukraine matters in his role at
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. The firm was named 2016 Russia Law Firm of the Year by
Chambers and Partners The awards are based on research and, "substantial feedback from clients". The firm's Moscow office has won previous honors for its high-profile work in Russia. Including a Tier 1 rank from The Legal 500 EMEA for Corporate/M&A Law Firm, Russia and a rank in Bank 1 from Chambers Global for Energy & Natural Resources Law Firm, Russia. ==References==