Thomas J. Perrelli

Thomas J. Perrelli is an American lawyer and served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the United States in the late 1990s. He is currently the Managing Partner of Jenner & Block's Washington, DC office.

Jenner & Block

Mr. Perrelli is the Co-Chair of the firm's Entertainment and New Media Practice, and is a member of the firm's Appellate and Supreme Court, Class Action Litigation, Health Care Law, Intellectual Property, Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Media and First Amendment, and Telecommunications Practices. He is also a member of the firm's Management Committee. Mr. Perrelli concentrates his practice on copyright, media, and constitutional litigation, as well as complex litigation with a public policy or regulatory component. He was recently named one of the nation's 40 most promising lawyers under 40 by The National Law Journal for exhibiting "extraordinary achievements" in his career.

Mr. Perrelli regularly represents the recording industry in cutting-edge intellectual property, technology, and anti-piracy litigation. He has represented the recording industry in a host of cases arising under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), as well as in copyright infringement and digital piracy litigation. Since his return to Jenner and Block in 2001, Mr. Perrelli has also represented Democratic voters and elected officials in redistricting litigation arising out of the 2000 Census.

Mr. Perrelli was previously an associate at Jenner & Block from 1992 to 1997.

United States Department of Justice

In 1997, Mr. Perrelli left Jenner & Block to join the Department of Justice and served as counsel to Attorney General Janet Reno. He subsequently rose to Deputy Assistant Attorney General, supervising the Federal Programs Branch of the Civil Division, which represents virtually every federal agency in complex civil litigation. In that role, Mr. Perrelli led a staff of 100 attorneys charged with defending the constitutionality of federal statutes, defending federal agency action and regulations, representing the diplomatic and national security interests of the United States in courts of law, and conducting significant Title VII, personnel and social security litigation.

Mr. Perrelli also supervised the Justice Department's Tobacco Litigation Team in its litigation against the major cigarette manufacturers. In addition, he played a leading role on significant policy issues ranging from medical records privacy and the use of adjusted figures in the census to Indian gaming and legal ethics.

Earlier Work

Prior to joining Jenner & Block, in 1991-92, Mr. Perrelli clerked for the Honorable Royce C. Lamberth of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Mr. Perrelli graduated from Harvard Law School, "magna cum laude", in 1991, where he was managing editor of the "Harvard Law Review". He received his A.B. in History from Brown University in 1988, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of "The Critical Review", Brown's student publication of course evaluations. Mr. Perrelli is a member of the bar of the United States Supreme Court, the Virginia and District of Columbia Bars and the bars of numerous other federal courts.

External links

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