ebprettyman@hhlaw.com
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E.
Barrett
Prettyman, Jr.
Of Counsel,
Washington, D.C.
Barrett Prettyman’s practice is principally in the appellate and administrative areas. He has experience conducting important trials, as well as handling matters before a number of U.S. agencies and departments, including the Interstate Commerce Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Federal Trade Commission, and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice.
Barrett has been counsel in over 150 matters before the U.S. Supreme Court and has personally argued 19 cases in the Supreme Court. He has also argued cases in most of the circuit courts of appeals. Barrett has been involved in some of the most important and complex cases of the last three decades, including Hughes Tool Co. v. TWA, Hunt v. SEC, In Re Plywood Litigation, Pillsbury Co. v. FTC, Nebraska Press Ass'n v. Stuart, and the Rock Island and Santa Fe/Southern Pacific merger cases, as well as cases involving public figures such as John Lennon and Truman Capote.
He has been Special Assistant to the Attorney General, Special Assistant to the White House, the President’s representative on the Interagency Committee on Transport Mergers, and outside Special Counsel to three separate Congressional Committees, including the House Ethics Committee during the Abdul Scam FBI investigation in the 1980s (ABSCAM).
Barrett is a Vice President and Trustee of the Supreme Court Historical Society and has written a book and several articles on Supreme Court practice, which in turn have been cited in major treatises on the subject. He is also co-editor of a book by Justice Jackson on the Supreme Court.
Barrett was the first President of the District of Columbia Bar, whose present membership is approximately 80,000. He has held all three officer positions of the D.C. Bar Foundation; is a past President of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, and The Lawyer’s Club; and has been a member of the Advisory Boards of the Media Law Reporter, the National Institute for Citizen Education in the Law, and the Institute for Communications Law Studies, Columbus School of Law, Catholic University, and a trustee of the Washington Journalism Center. He was appointed by the D.C. Circuit to write a bicentennial history of that court, which was published in 1976. He served for four years on the International Advisory Group of Toshiba Corporation. From January 1998 until April 1999, he served in a pro bono capacity as the Inspector General of the District of Columbia.
After graduating from law school, he was a law clerk successively to Justices Jackson, Frankfurter, and Harlan of the U.S. Supreme Court. He joined Hogan & Hartson in 1955, after his clerking experience during the 1954 and 1955 terms, and he has remained with the firm since that time, except for approximately three and a half years in government.
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