Full Name
Jeffrey A. Rosen
Job Title
Of Counsel, Litigation
Company
Cravath
Speaker Bio
Jeffrey A. Rosen is a member of the Investigations and Regulatory Enforcement Practice. He previously served in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) as Acting Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General, as well as Deputy Secretary and General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), and General Counsel and Senior Policy Advisor at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
Mr. Rosen has built a career specializing in the management of complex and consequential matters. He has served in three U.S. Senate-confirmed positions across different Presidential Administrations, in addition to nearly 30 years in the private sector working with leading companies from the transportation, energy, technology, finance and other industries. He advises clients on regulatory enforcement, investigations, compliance and monitoring matters, as well as antitrust and business litigation. Mr. Rosen also counsels clients on the expanding realm of legal controversies that may involve the federal government.
At the DOJ, Mr. Rosen served as the 38th Deputy Attorney General, and ultimately as the Acting Attorney General, where his responsibilities involved leading the Department’s more than 110,000 employees and managing a $32 billion budget. He oversaw all of the Department’s litigating divisions; U.S. Attorney offices; law enforcement agencies and its management, policy and other staff offices. Mr. Rosen guided numerous DOJ initiatives, including an antitrust review of online technology platforms; opioids enforcement and legislation; redress of pandemic-related fraud; reform of regulatory and administrative law; investigation and prosecution of IP theft and economic espionage; and responses to hacking, ransomware and other criminal and national security cyber threats.
Prior to his tenure at the DOJ, Mr. Rosen was the Deputy Secretary of Transportation, where he acted as the Chief Operating Officer and second-ranking official of a Cabinet Department with more than 55,000 employees and a budget in excess of $80 billion. Mr. Rosen helped implement the DOT’s critical priorities, including the safety of the transportation system; allocation of nearly $20 billion of competitive grant and loan funding for infrastructure projects nationwide; a more timely permitting process and other regulatory reforms; and the safe regulatory enabling of new technologies such as drones, self-driving cars, hyperloop tunnels and commercial space launches.
More than a decade earlier, Mr. Rosen served as General Counsel at the DOT, where he oversaw the activities of more than 400 lawyers and worked closely with the DOT’s operating administrations (e.g., FAA, NHTSA, FRA) to oversee the DOT’s regulatory program, enforcement and litigation activities, legal issues relating to international transportation and DOT legislative proposals.
Mr. Rosen also previously served as General Counsel and Senior Policy Advisor at OMB, which made him the Administration’s lead lawyer for regulatory and fiscal issues, as well as for executive orders. In this role, he advised the OMB Director and the President with respect to a wide range of federal agencies, programs and legal topics, and handled responses to Congressional oversight.
Mr. Rosen has extensive, nationwide state and federal trial and appellate experience, including argument before the U.S. Supreme Court. Before his most recent public service, Mr. Rosen spent nearly three decades in private practice, where he represented leading companies across a range of industries, and his practice principally included complex litigation matters involving antitrust, securities, RICO, business torts, trade secrets, contracts, government enforcement actions, product liability, class actions and regulatory issues.
In 2022, Mr. Rosen received the Mary C. Lawton Award for Outstanding Government Service from the American Bar Association’s Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice. He has been an IOP Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and is a Nonresident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also a Life Member of the American Law Institute, a member of the National Association of Former U.S. Attorneys and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the GMU Scalia Law School’s Gray Center. Mr. Rosen previously served as Chair of the American Bar Association’s Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice and as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where he taught Professional Responsibility (Legal Ethics). He was Chair of Virginia’s Commission to Combat Antisemitism and is a Public Member of the Administrative Conference of the United States.
Mr. Rosen has appeared regularly as a speaker, moderator and panelist at seminars and conferences around the country. His numerous articles, forewords, and op-eds have been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, The Hill, National Affairs, Administrative Law Review and other publications.
Mr. Rosen was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He received a B.A. with highest distinction in 1979 from Northwestern University and a J.D. magna cum laude in 1982 from Harvard Law School.
Mr. Rosen has built a career specializing in the management of complex and consequential matters. He has served in three U.S. Senate-confirmed positions across different Presidential Administrations, in addition to nearly 30 years in the private sector working with leading companies from the transportation, energy, technology, finance and other industries. He advises clients on regulatory enforcement, investigations, compliance and monitoring matters, as well as antitrust and business litigation. Mr. Rosen also counsels clients on the expanding realm of legal controversies that may involve the federal government.
At the DOJ, Mr. Rosen served as the 38th Deputy Attorney General, and ultimately as the Acting Attorney General, where his responsibilities involved leading the Department’s more than 110,000 employees and managing a $32 billion budget. He oversaw all of the Department’s litigating divisions; U.S. Attorney offices; law enforcement agencies and its management, policy and other staff offices. Mr. Rosen guided numerous DOJ initiatives, including an antitrust review of online technology platforms; opioids enforcement and legislation; redress of pandemic-related fraud; reform of regulatory and administrative law; investigation and prosecution of IP theft and economic espionage; and responses to hacking, ransomware and other criminal and national security cyber threats.
Prior to his tenure at the DOJ, Mr. Rosen was the Deputy Secretary of Transportation, where he acted as the Chief Operating Officer and second-ranking official of a Cabinet Department with more than 55,000 employees and a budget in excess of $80 billion. Mr. Rosen helped implement the DOT’s critical priorities, including the safety of the transportation system; allocation of nearly $20 billion of competitive grant and loan funding for infrastructure projects nationwide; a more timely permitting process and other regulatory reforms; and the safe regulatory enabling of new technologies such as drones, self-driving cars, hyperloop tunnels and commercial space launches.
More than a decade earlier, Mr. Rosen served as General Counsel at the DOT, where he oversaw the activities of more than 400 lawyers and worked closely with the DOT’s operating administrations (e.g., FAA, NHTSA, FRA) to oversee the DOT’s regulatory program, enforcement and litigation activities, legal issues relating to international transportation and DOT legislative proposals.
Mr. Rosen also previously served as General Counsel and Senior Policy Advisor at OMB, which made him the Administration’s lead lawyer for regulatory and fiscal issues, as well as for executive orders. In this role, he advised the OMB Director and the President with respect to a wide range of federal agencies, programs and legal topics, and handled responses to Congressional oversight.
Mr. Rosen has extensive, nationwide state and federal trial and appellate experience, including argument before the U.S. Supreme Court. Before his most recent public service, Mr. Rosen spent nearly three decades in private practice, where he represented leading companies across a range of industries, and his practice principally included complex litigation matters involving antitrust, securities, RICO, business torts, trade secrets, contracts, government enforcement actions, product liability, class actions and regulatory issues.
In 2022, Mr. Rosen received the Mary C. Lawton Award for Outstanding Government Service from the American Bar Association’s Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice. He has been an IOP Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and is a Nonresident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also a Life Member of the American Law Institute, a member of the National Association of Former U.S. Attorneys and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the GMU Scalia Law School’s Gray Center. Mr. Rosen previously served as Chair of the American Bar Association’s Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice and as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where he taught Professional Responsibility (Legal Ethics). He was Chair of Virginia’s Commission to Combat Antisemitism and is a Public Member of the Administrative Conference of the United States.
Mr. Rosen has appeared regularly as a speaker, moderator and panelist at seminars and conferences around the country. His numerous articles, forewords, and op-eds have been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, The Hill, National Affairs, Administrative Law Review and other publications.
Mr. Rosen was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He received a B.A. with highest distinction in 1979 from Northwestern University and a J.D. magna cum laude in 1982 from Harvard Law School.
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