“WilmerHale lawyers Alyssa DaCunha, who helms the firm’s congressional investigations and crisis management practices, and Felicia Ellsworth, the vice chair of WilmerHale’s litigation and controversy department, both sat in the front row at least week’s hearing, according to the Times.
A person familiar with the process told the Times both DaCunha and Ellsworth were involved in the preparations for the Harvard and UPenn presidents,
The two schools had each separately hired the firm, which developed different teams to prepare both Magill and Gay, according to the Times, which reported all three schools previously had a relationship with the WilmerHale.”
The 2 led attorneys from WilmerHale must have understudied with the PR person at Anheuser Busch who came up with the disastrous Bud Light campaign.
The university president would have done better to follow the Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas model. Start every answer with “Congressman or Senator,” say you don’t have the specific information with you (despite knowing the questions that would be asked), and tell them you will have your staff prepare an answer and send it in. Then forget the whole thing.
There are more than enough citations to go around on this one!