Principals
The Lichfield Group serves every client with the unique talents of its principals. It sports a network of worldwide alliances to insure premium advice and unerring performance.
Bruce Fein
Bruce Fein commands impressive experience and influence in the corridors of both national and international power. He graduated from Harvard Law School with honors in 1972. After a coveted federal judicial clerkship, he joined the U.S. Department of Justice where he served as assistant director of the Office of Legal Policy, legal adviser to the assistant attorney general for antitrust, and the associate deputy attorney general. Mr. Fein then was appointed general counsel of the Federal Communications Commission, followed by an appointment as research director for the Joint Congressional Committee on Covert Arms Sales to Iran. He recently served on the American Bar Association's Task Force on Presidential signing statements.
He is frequently quoted in The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal and other major national publications. He has been featured on the cover of the American Bar Association Journal, the legal profession's most prestigious publication.
He has authored several volumes on the United States Supreme Court, the United States Constitution, and international law. He has assisted three dozen countries in constitutional revision, including Russia, Spain, South Africa, Iraq, Cyprus, and Mozambique, and consulted foreign nations on matters ranging from telecommunications and cable regulation to sugar quotas, oil and gas pipelines, immigration, election laws, and human rights.
Mr. Fein has been an adjunct scholar with the American Enterprise Institute, a resident scholar at the Heritage Foundation, a lecturer at the Brookings Institute, and an adjunct professor at George Washington University. He has also been executive editor of World Intelligence Review, a periodical devoted to national security and intelligence issues. He regularly lectures to foreign guests and dignitaries visiting the United States on behalf of the State Department.
At present, he writes regular columns for The Washington Times and Slate devoted to legal and international affairs. He is a guest columnist for numerous other newspapers, and articles for professional and lay journals. He is often invited to testify regularly before Congress and administrative agencies by both Democrats and Republicans. He appears regularly on national and international television, cable, and radio programs as an expert in foreign affairs, international and constitutional law, telecommunications, terrorism, national security, and related subjects. He is a regular guest at the BBC, C-SPAN, CNN, Reuters, MSNBC, and NPR.
Mr. Fein can be reached via email at: bruce@thelichfieldgroup.com
Mathilde Fein
Mathilde Fein features a wealth of experience and talent in national and international media and in representing governments and private corporations. She produced programs for CNBC and developed communications strategy for Insight Magazine owned by The Washington Times. Her clients have included presidents and CEOs in industries ranging from hotels, tourism, and casinos to defense, labor, and law and lobbying firms in Washington, D.C., New York, and London, England.
Ms. Fein has represented foreign governments, political candidates and officials in the United States. She has been a frequent guest of the BBC on Argentine political and economic affairs, a regular contributor to the Financial Times and CBS Marketwatch, and a columnist on trade and Mercosur for the Miami Herald. Her network of media contacts is unexcelled, and her savvy in fashioning business or government strategies is unrivalled. She was recently invited by the Foreign Policy Institute of Turkey and Bilkent University to present a paper on democratic elections in Iraq and human rights issues.
The Lichfield Group serves every client with the unique talents of its principals. It sports a network of worldwide alliances to insure premium advice and unerring performance.
Ms. Fein can be reached via email at: mattie@thelichfieldgroup.com