Bloomberg Law
March 21, 2019, 6:15 PM UTC

O’Melveny Hires Top Obama National Security Aide Lisa Monaco

Sam Skolnik
Sam Skolnik
Reporter

O’Melveny & Myers has bolstered its data security and privacy team with the addition of former Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor to President Obama, Lisa Monaco, as a partner in its Washington and New York offices.

Monaco served as Obama’s chief counterterrorism advisor at the White House for the duration of his second term. In that time, she led policy efforts to disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. from al-Qaida and the Islamic State, and coordinated crisis responses to cyber threats and national disasters.

Before that, she served as assistant attorney general for national security at the Justice Department, and ...

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