Nicholas M. Gess

Bingham McCutchen, Of Counsel
Bingham Consulting Group, Principal

Nicholas M. Gess is a principal at Bingham Consulting Group and of counsel at Bingham McCutchen. Prior to joining the firm, he served as a member of Attorney General Reno's senior staff and as associate deputy attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice. He brings considerable experience in assessing government actions and their impact on the business community. He advises corporate clients how to achieve results with governmental agencies.

As an associate deputy attorney general, director of Intergovernmental Affairs and counsel to the assistant attorney general for Legislative Affairs, Nick was a senior advisor to former Attorney General Janet Reno and Deputy Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., and was the Department of Justice official responsible for building and maintaining their relationships with state and local elected officials, law enforcement and the advocacy groups which represent them. He served as the Justice Department’s primary liaison with the White House Domestic Policy Council, and has also worked extensively on significant legislative and appropriations matters.

From 1987 to 1994, Nick served as an assistant United States attorney in Portland, Maine, where he supervised many significant and complicated criminal investigations and tried many complex cases in federal court. Prior to his appointment as an assistant United States attorney, he was the first Maine prosecutor appointed to head a joint federal-state-local task force by former Maine Attorney General James E. Tierney and former Maine United States Attorney Richard S. Cohen. From 1983 to 1986, Nick was an assistant attorney general in the Maine attorney general’s office where he was responsible for complex criminal cases involving homicide, fraud and other criminal matters. From 1981 to 1983, Nick served as an assistant district attorney in Cumberland County (Portland), Maine, where he tried criminal cases and handled matters on appeal.

Nick is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Judicial Circuit, and the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

ADMISSIONS
  • Admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Maine
EDUCATION
  • University of Maine School of Law, Juris Doctor, 1981
  • Bowdoin College, A.B., 1977

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Nicholas Gess