PRESS RELEASES
Ambassador Donald Ensenat Joins Patton Boggs LLP
July 19, 2007
Washington, D.C., July 19 - Patton Boggs LLP is pleased to announce that Ambassador Donald Ensenat has joined the firm as Of Counsel in the Washington, D.C. office. He most recently served as United States Chief of Protocol at the White House and the U.S. State Department from 2001 to 2007, where he hosted foreign leaders visiting the President and his Administration, accompanied the President on his overseas visits, and was personal representative to the Ambassadors and Diplomatic Corps resident in Washington.
Drawing from his extensive background working in the U.S. Federal Government and on his private practice experience, Ambassador Ensenat will advise and assist clients on a broad range of international matters.
“Ambassador Ensenat’s knowledge and experience working within the international community will undoubtedly bolster our service to our public policy and trade clients,” said Stuart M. Pape, Managing Partner. “His arrival is a testament to our continuously expanding global presence, and we are fortunate to have such a seasoned practitioner on board to provide valuable counsel.”
His government experience also includes service as the U.S. Ambassador to Brunei, and a President-nominated and Senate-confirmed appointment to the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). He also was Assistant Attorney General of Louisiana in charge of federal court and Louisiana Supreme Court litigation, and Legislative Assistant to Congressman Hale Boggs and Congresswoman Lindy Boggs. He has served as an officer or board member of multiple professional, charitable, and political organizations, including as Chair of President George W. Bush’s presidential election campaign in Louisiana.
Ambassador Ensenat currently is on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the World Trade Center of New Orleans. He is a member of the Council of American Ambassadors and the Asia Society, and was previously a Yale Alumni Associate of Louisiana, serving as President from 1985 to 1987, as well as acting as Chair of Yale Admissions Committee from 1988 to 2001.
He graduated from Tulane University Law School, earning a J.D. in 1973. He also attended Yale University, graduating with a B.A. in 1968.
Sorry, somehow I neglected to mention that Enzo has a new job.
It is amazing to me that I have never heard of him until today.
It is not like I have been living under a rock.
DocMoreau
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Patton Boggs LLP
History
According to its website, the firm was founded in 1962 by James R. Patton, Jr and joined soon after by George Blow and then Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr. Again according to the website, it has "participated in the formation of every major multilateral trade agreement considered by Congress."[1] Notable associates have included John Breaux, former Democratic U.S. Senator and Representative from Louisiana, and Benjamin Ginsberg, former national counsel to the Bush-Cheney presidential campaign and the Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee and National Republican Congressional Committee.
Notable clients
Patton Boggs has lobbied on behalf of the dietary supplement company Metabolife International. According to Associated Press, "Patton Boggs earned millions helping project reassurances to Congress and its customers that Metabolife products were safe. Patton Boggs attorneys helped prepare carefully worded responses to regulators. Between 2001 and this year, Metabolife paid Patton Boggs $1.8 million to lobby Congress."[2]
Patton Boggs' work for Metabolife has resulted in legal scrutiny: "One former and four current Patton Boggs attorneys were subpoenaed by a federal grand jury in San Diego, court documents say. Prosecutors allege company founder Michael Ellis lied about Metabolife's safety record in a 1998 letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which documents say Patton Boggs attorneys helped draft. ... In mid 2002, Patton Boggs lobbyist Lanny Davis wrote a senator whose subcommittee was investigating Metabolife that the company had received only 78 'unproven, anecdotal allegations' of strokes, heart attacks, seizures and deaths." Company documents released just one week later revealed that the number of health complaints actually numbered in the thousands.[2]
According to the Haitian newspaper "Le Nouvelliste"[3] Patton Boggs was hired in 2007 by the Vicini family, one of the most influential and wealthiest families in the Dominican Republic, to prevent the screening of the documentary The Price of Sugar which depicts the living conditions of Haitian immigrant workers on the family's sugar plantations as well as death threats against Christopher Hartley, a Catholic priest working on behalf of the Haitian immigrants.
[edit on 24/7/2008 by DocMoreau]
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