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
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
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
Bobby Burchfield, a partner and trial appellate lawyer in the Washington office of McDermott Will & Emery, has vast experience in complex corporate litigation and twice argued before the Supreme Court. Read More
"Like the overwhelming majority of people who have discussed this issue, and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats, I find this prosecution both outrageous and inexplicable," Burchfield said. Read More
Bobby Burchfield, who argued McCutcheon v. FEC, Don McGahn, the former chairman of the Federal Election Commission, and Heritage scholar Hans von Spakovsky will discuss this attempt to silence free speech by amending the Constitution. Read More
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In the McCutcheon case, he went one stage further, not only submitting a brief but also persuading the justices to allow his lawyer, Bobby Burchfield, to participate in oral arguments — an unusual request for the Court to grant, and a concession that demonstrates how interested in this subject the justices have been. Read More
Alumnus Bobby Burchfield (’76), a partner at McDermott Will & Emery in Washington, D.C., argued the McCutcheon v. FEC case before the court last October on behalf of the appellants, Alabama businessman Shaun McCutcheon and the Republican National Committee. Read More