Lisa Brown, ’86, Joins WilmerHale as Higher Education Practice Leader
Lisa Brown, Former US Education Department General Counsel, Joins WilmerHale as Higher Education Practice Leader
WilmerHale is pleased to announce that Lisa Brown, most recently the US Department of Education’s general counsel and, before that, the longstanding general counsel of Georgetown University, has joined the firm as a partner and the next head of its preeminent Higher Education Practice Group.
Brown is a lawyer with extraordinarily deep and broad experience at senior levels in the federal government, university administration, non-profits and private practice. She will represent education clients across the wide swath of challenges facing institutions of higher learning.
Brown was general counsel and a vice president of Georgetown University from 2013 until joining the Education Department in 2021. At Georgetown, Brown advised the university’s president, governing board, and senior academic and administrative officers on issues facing the university, including the legal implications of university policies and decisions. Before Georgetown University, Brown held several federal government roles, including as staff secretary to President Obama and as a senior executive within the Office of Management and Budget.
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