Mike McCurry
Mike McCurry is a principal at Public Strategies Washington, Inc., where he provides counsel on communications strategies and management to corporate and non-profit clients.
McCurry is a veteran political strategist and spokesperson with 30 years experience in Washington D.C. McCurry served in the White House as press secretary to President Bill Clinton (1995-1998). He also served as spokesman for the Department of State (1993-1995) and director of communications for the Democratic National Committee (1988-1990). McCurry also held leadership roles in several national campaigns: for the vice presidential campaign of Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen (1988), and the presidential campaigns of Senator John Glenn (1984), Governor Bruce Babbitt (1988), Senator Bob Kerrey (1992), and Senator John Kerry (2004).
McCurry began his career in the United States Senate, working as press secretary to the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources and to the committee’s chairman, Senator Harrison A. Williams, Jr. (1976-1981). He also served as press secretary to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1981-1983).
McCurry serves on boards or advisory councils for the Commission on Presidential Debates, Share Our Strength, ONE Vote ’08, the Center for International Private Enterprise, Bread for the World, the Junior Statesmen Foundation, the Children’s Scholarship Fund, the Wesley Theological Seminary, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is also a Senior Adviser to Grassroots Enterprise Inc, a firm specializing in Internet-based strategies for citizen mobilization.
McCurry received his Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University in 1976 and a Master of Arts from Georgetown University in 1985.
Christopher Wolf
MSNBC calls Christopher Wolf “a pioneer in Internet law.” And, indeed, Chris was involved in the earliest matters involving the Internet, helping to make new law for new technologies. He was trial counsel for the old MCI in a three-month-long jury trial involving a failed joint venture for Internet-related equipment, where MCI won a complete victory. He represented The Washington Post in a high-profile challenge to reporters’ use of the Internet, winning summary judgment. He represented the recording industry in the first successful lawsuits against online piracy. And he was among the first lawyers to litigate domain name disputes, jurisdictional issues and the limits to online and e-mail marketing. A more recent case involved a trademark law challenge to the use of Google “adwords” for marketing purposes.
As the Internet matured, and personal privacy became an issue, Chris also was among the first to be involved in the new field of electronic privacy law. One notable case was the one in which Chris successfully challenged the U.S. Navy in federal court under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act for their improper contact with AOL. Today, he is called upon for advice, counsel and representation on privacy law matters including those under EU and foreign law, as well as federal statutes (such as COPPA and Gramm-Leach-Bliley) and the growing body of state law, especially in California. He has served as counsel for each of the U.S. airlines accused of privacy law violations arising from their cooperation on security matters. Indicative of his standing as one of the country’s leading Internet lawyers are the many opportunities Chris has had to speak and write on Internet and privacy law, including at Harvard and Stanford Law Schools, as an adjunct professor at the Washington & Lee University School of Law, on CLE panels such as PLI Institutes, at the Brookings Institution, at the Second Circuit Judicial Conference, at the Bar Association of the City of New York, and at international conferences in Sweden, France and Israel. Chris also is a regular commentator on NBC, CNN and MSNBC.
Chris is a 1980 magna cum laude, Order of the Coif graduate of the law school at Washington & Lee University, where he served on Law Review and was a Teaching Fellow. He graduated in 1976 cum laude from Bowdoin College and was a General Course participant at the London School of Economics & Political Science. He clerked for U.S. District Judge Aubrey E. Robinson, Jr. in Washington, DC.
His community leadership includes service as Chair of the Washington, DC Governing Board of the Anti-Defamation League and service on the national ADL Executive Committee; President of the Board of Food & Friends, a social service agency; and longtime membership on the Board of the National Symphony Orchestra. Chris is a member of the Cosmos Club in Washington.
