Kramer Levin is pleased to announce that Richard Sauber, former Special Counsel to President Joe Biden and former general counsel of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, has joined the firm as a partner in Washington, DC. He will be a member of the firm’s Litigation Department, including its Congressional Investigations and White Collar Defense and Government Investigations practices.
As Special Counsel to President Biden, Richard spearheaded the President’s defense to Special Counsel Robert Hur’s investigation of the discovery of classified documents in the President’s home and former office. He also led the successful White House response to the attempted impeachment of President Biden.
In 2021, Richard was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as general counsel of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Prior to joining the Department of Veterans Affairs, he was co-managing partner of the Washington, DC litigation boutique Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck & Untereiner LLP, which combined with Kramer Levin in 2022. Earlier in his career, he spent seven years as a prosecutor in the Department of Justice’s Criminal Fraud Section.
Richard has been lead counsel to many of the largest U.S. companies in bet-the-company civil and criminal litigation, congressional investigations, and matters before the U.S. Supreme Court.
At Kramer Levin, Richard will advise clients facing investigations in Congress and before other federal and state authorities. He joins a cross-disciplinary team that includes a former chief impeachment counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives, a former chief Democratic counsel to the Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and multiple former DOJ attorneys and senior federal prosecutors.