News & Updates

Jan 25, 2017

Trump Organization Names Ethics Overseers

Bobby Burchfield, who was the top lawyer on President George H.W. Bush’s 1992 re-election campaign, will serve as the company’s independent ethics adviser. Read More

Jan 25, 2017

White House, Trump Organization Name Ethics Advisers

The Trump Organization named Bobby Burchfield, a general counsel to Bush’s re-election campaign in 1992 and attorney at the firm King & Spalding, as its in-house ethics adviser. George Sorial, an executive vice president, will serve as the chief compliance counsel, the company said. Read More

Jan 25, 2017

Trump Organization Names Two Ethics Lawyers

Trump Organization on Wednesday announced it had named Bobby Burchfield, a lawyer at King & Spalding, as an independent ethics adviser. Certain Trump Organization transactions “cannot be undertaken without” the adviser’s approval, according to a written statement released by the company. Read More

Jan 19, 2017

Three Top Trial Lawyers Tell Us Why Storytelling Is So Important

Said Bobby Burchfield, a litigation partner at King & Spalding, “I think of a trial in terms of putting together a comprehensible and comprehensive story in terms of what I can get people to remember and what I can get people to believe. Read More

Nov 13, 2015

Bobby Burchfield Receives 2015 Republican Lawyer Of The Year

Last month, the RNLA honored Bobby Burchfield as the recipient of the2015 Republican Lawyer of the Year. Read More

May 21, 2015

GW Law Speaker: Embrace The Struggle, Law Grads

On May 18, Bobby Burchfield, of King & Spaulding, delivered George Washington Law School’s Commencement Address, entitled “A Thirty-Six Year Head Start. Read More

May 17, 2015

Law School Graduates Learn How To Reach Their Potential

Keynote speaker Bobby Burchfield, a 1979 alumnus and partner at the D.C. law firm King and Spalding, listed former GW law students like U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Barbara Keenan and Senator Harry Reid as examples of what graduates could accomplish. Read More

Nov 24, 2014

National Law Journal Names McDermott To 2014 Appellate Hot List

The Firm was recognized for its tactical work in Arizona v The Inter Tribal Counsel of Arizona, under the leadership of M. Miller Baker, and Bobby Burchfield’s amicus argument in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission. Read More

Aug 26, 2014

Rick Perry Has Assembled An All-Star Legal Team

Burchfield is a courtroom attorney based in Washington who represented the Republican National Committee and others in a Supreme Court challenge to the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law. Read More