Steven Reich

Steven F. Reich is an American attorney. Reich graduated from Columbia College in 1983. He began his career as an associate at the prominent Washington, D.C. law firm Covington & Burling following his graduation from Columbia Law School in 1986. From 1994-1998, Reich served as an Assistant Federal Public Defender for the District of Maryland. In 1998, he moved to the Minority staff of the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, where he was Deputy Chief Investigative Counsel during the impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton. After President Clintons impeachment by the House, Reich Served as impeachment counsel to the Minority Members of the U.S. Senate. He thereafter served as Senior Associate Counsel to President Clinton from 1999-2001.Reich next was a partner at the law firm of Manatt Phelps & Phillips, LLP from 2001-2011. While at Manatt, he served as Special Counsel to a Select Committee of Inquiry of the Connecticut House of Representatives charged with considering whether Connecticut Governor John G. Rowland should be impeached. Rowland resigned during the pendency of Reichs investigation.In 2011, Reich was appointed to the position of Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice. In that role, Reich served as a senior advisor to Attorney General Eric Holder and Deputy Attorney General Jim Cole.Reich returned to private practice in 2013 as a partner at the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. While at Akin Gump, Reich was selected to be Special Counsel to a Special Committee of the Utah House of Representatives charged with determining whether Utah Attorney General John Swallow had engaged in misconduct. Swallow resigned during the pendency of the investigation led by Reich.In 2015, Reich was selected by Deutsche Bank AG to serve as its General Counsel for the Americas, effective April 2015. He negotiated Deutsche Banks resolution of the RMBS investigation with the Department of Justice in late 2016.

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