News & Updates

Jan 8, 2019

RNC Wins Discovery Appeal In Suit Alleging Vote Suppression

The Third Circuit’s recognition of the trial court’s “thorough and thoughtful work” is “gratifying,” Bobby Burchfield, one of the attorneys for the RNC, told Bloomberg Law in a Jan. 8 email. Read More

Sep 9, 2018

RNC Asks Court To Keep Recount Plan For 2020 Secret

"The RNC requests protection of the document under seal only until after the conclusion of the next presidential election on November 3, 2020," RNC attorneys Bobby Burchfield and Matt Leland wrote. Read More

Feb 25, 2017

Who’s Watching Trump’s Ethics Watchdogs?

While wired up with the Trump White House – Burchfield maintains strong ties to both chief of staff Reince Priebus and chief counsel Don McGahn – as well as the company’s senior brass, he said he doesn’t take orders from any of them. Read More

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