Williams & Connolly

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Williams & Connolly LLP (W&C) is an American white-shoe law firm based in Washington, D.C., known for its specialization in white-collar crime defense. The firm was founded by trial lawyer Edward Bennett Williams and Paul Connolly in 1967. High-profile cases include the successful defense of U.S. President Clinton's impeachment, representation of Enron's law firm Vinson & Elkins, representation of the motion picture studios in the Kazaa/Grokster file-trading litigation, defense of the Vioxx cases, and counsel for the plaintiff states in the United States v. Microsoft antitrust remedy trial. The firm represented Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North during the Iran-Contra Affair and John Hinckley, the would-be assassin of Ronald Reagan. In 2025, the firm was reported to have been hacked in a Chinese state-sponsored espionage campaign.

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