Daniel E. Lungren
Senior Counsel Government Advocacy and Public Policy
Washington, D.C.: +1 202 626 9120 San Francisco: +1 415 318 1233 [email protected]
Dan Lungren is senior counsel in the firm’s Government Advocacy and Public Policy group. As a former U.S. Congressman and California State Attorney General, he is widely respected as an individual of the highest integrity and ethics with strong personal relationships on both sides of the aisle. Dan’s deep substantive knowledge and familiarity with the legislative and executive processes and people that make government work allows him to provide unique counsel to clients on a wide range of matters pending before Congress, the executive branch and state attorneys general across the country.
Hon. Dan Lungren served nine terms as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and two terms as California’s Attorney General. In the Congress he represented both southern California (including the counties of Los Angeles and Orange) from 1979-89 and northern California (including the county of Sacramento) from 2005-13.
A member of the House Judiciary Committee for eighteen years, Dan specialized in the issues of crime, immigration and national security. In that capacity he was involved in the active oversight of the U.S. Department of Justice. Additionally, Lungren served on the House Intelligence and Budget Committees, was a senior member of the House Committee on Homeland Security and chairman of the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure.
A national leader on criminal justice issues, he was recognized by his peers in the National Association of Attorneys General with the Wyman Award as the best attorney general in the nation. His leadership as California’s ”Top Cop” resulted in a crime drop of 30% with a homicide drop of 50%. Dan successfully argued a case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Dan is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, attended law school at the University of Southern California and graduated from Georgetown University Law Center with his J.D.
Credentials EDUCATION J.D., Georgetown University B.A., University of Notre Dame 1 www.kslaw.com 1 ADMISSIONS California District of Columbia
ASSOCIATIONS The Fletcher Jones Foundation, Trustee and Vice Chair Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Graduate Theological Union, Member of College of Fellows
Insights CLIENT ALERT September 27, 2021 20 State Attorneys General Push Congress to Address Environmental Justice
Events SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT August 8, 2019 Dan Lungren to Speak at State Attorneys General Tech Policy Summit About Data Privacy
WEBINAR May 13, 2020 Cybersecurity and Privacy Webinar Mini-Series Part 2: Data Privacy and Security Risk Management: Securing the Enterprise and Beyond
November 8, 2018 King & Spalding e-Learn: Washington Insight: What Will Election 2018 Mean for You?
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