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Elliot S. Berke General Counsel

In December 2006 Elliot joined Barbour Griffith & Rogers as the firm's General Counsel. He provides legal guidance and representation and is responsible for the firm's strict compliance with complex laws ranging from campaign finance, lobbying disclosure and foreign agent registration to the firm's internal ethics and practice guidelines.

Elliot served as Counsel in the Office of the Speaker of the House from February 2006 to December 2006. In this role Elliot provided legal advice and counsel to Speaker J. Dennis Hastert and forty leadership staff members. Elliot also acted as a liaison for legal and ethics issues between the GOP majority offices, and provided legal advice on institutional and constitutional concerns, including service on the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group. Additionally, Elliot's responsibilities in the Speaker's office included policy advice on ethics and lobbying reforms and on select Judiciary Committee issues.

Prior to his work in the Speaker's office, Elliot was the General Counsel in the Office of the House Majority Leader from February 2004 to February 2006. While providing legal counsel to Majority Leader Tom DeLay and his thirty-five person staff, Elliot also served as the principal policy advisor on Judiciary Committee matters including courts, the Constitution, intellectual property, immigration, crime and Department of Justice oversight. Also while serving in the Majority Leader's office, Elliot provided policy advice on Homeland Security Committee matters including Department of Homeland Security oversight, and on House Administration Committee matters including campaign finance.

We all pretty much know how that's worked out...

Before serving at HUD, Elliot worked in the Office of the Independent Counsel (OIC) as Senior Counsel from June 2001 to July 2002 and as an Associate Counsel from June 1999 until June 2001. Elliot's work included counsel on Madison Guaranty/Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky jurisdictional mandates and supervising production and authoring sections of the Madison Guaranty/Whitewater Final Report. Elliot also assisted with litigation pending before federal courts including the Supreme Court. Prior to his tenure with the OIC, Elliot worked as a counsel in both the House and the Senate on major congressional investigations involving public corruption and white collar crime.

I found myself looking for Bebop in the audience. Which of course was silly because I have no idea what bebop looks like.

Me too. ;-> I even saw someone I thought might be him (at least my eyes kept coming back to this gentleman over and over), but had to keep reminding myself of how surprised I can be when I finally do meet someone FTF who I've had only internet contact with in the past. Fortunately for me, it's always been a good surprise when it's happened, and I suspect that would hold true again if I were ever so fortunate as to get to meet our good friend and resident poet laureate in person.

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Eric Burgeson Vice President

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Eric joined Barbour Griffith & Rogers in 2006 after serving as the chief of staff at the Department of Energy and in several high-level positions in the White House...

...was the liaison between the Department and energy stakeholders...and coordinated the development of energy policy within the Department and with the White House. In this capacity, Eric was instrumental in the development of President George W. Bush's Advanced Energy Initiative.

Eric was also responsible for political appointments at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and ten independent agencies.