Allison Friedrich Murphy

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Interactive: Where Pandemic-Oversight Lawyers Went Next

Identity & role

Partner, Government, Regulatory & Internal Investigations Practice Group, Kirkland & Ellis LLP (Washington, D.C.), since June 2021. (Kirkland & Ellis, "Kirkland Adds Allison Murphy to its Congressional Investigations and Crisis Management Team" (May 2021) (original: kirkland.com); LegiStorm, Allison Murphy biography (original: legistorm.com)) She was Chief Oversight Counsel of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, majority staff, from its June 10, 2020 staff announcement.

Career arc

White House Associate Counsel under President Obama; Counsel for the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations; investigations spanning the energy, financial-services, and pharmaceutical sectors. (Kirkland & Ellis, Allison Murphy lawyer page (original: kirkland.com); Federalist Society, Allison Murphy contributor page (original: fedsoc.org))
Chief Oversight Counsel, Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis (from 2020). (committee staff release (original: coronavirus.house.gov · stored capture))
May 2021: Kirkland announced her hire into its Congressional Investigations and Crisis Management team; LegiStorm dates the move to June 2021. (Kirkland & Ellis, "Kirkland Adds Allison Murphy to its Congressional Investigations and Crisis Management Team" (May 2021) (original: kirkland.com); May 2021: Kirkland announced her hire into its Congressional Investigations and Crisis Management team; LegiStorm... (original: news.bloomberglaw.com))

Pandemic relief oversight role

As Chief Oversight Counsel, Murphy was a senior member of the Subcommittee's majority staff during its first year, when the early pandemic-relief inquiries were established. She departed for Kirkland & Ellis in mid-2021, roughly eighteen months before the Subcommittee's December 1, 2022 fintech-fraud staff report, "We Are Not the Fraud Police." (Report: House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, majority staff, Dec. 1, 2022.)

Lobbying & industry ties

No federal lobbying registration is associated with Murphy. Her post-government work is law-firm practice. Kirkland markets a practice "representing clients before Congress," and Murphy's group at the firm (Government, Regulatory & Internal Investigations) defends companies in congressional and government investigations. (Kirkland & Ellis, Congressional Investigations practice page (original: kirkland.com))

Sources held in this archive

Original source documents and archived captures

James E. Clyburn — chaired the Select Subcommittee she served as chief oversight counsel.
David J. Hickton — the Subcommittee's founding staff director.

Sources

Kirkland & Ellis, "Kirkland Adds Allison Murphy to its Congressional Investigations and Crisis Management Team," May 2021 (effective June 1, 2021) — Kirkland & Ellis, "Kirkland Adds Allison Murphy to its Congressional Investigations and Crisis Management Team" (May 2021) (original: kirkland.com)
Kirkland & Ellis attorney profile — Kirkland & Ellis, Allison Murphy lawyer page (original: kirkland.com)
LegiStorm, Allison Friedrich Murphy biography ("Kirkland & Ellis LLP (June 2021-), Partner") — LegiStorm, Allison Murphy biography (original: legistorm.com)
Bloomberg Law, "Kirkland Snags Former White House Associate Counsel Murphy" — May 2021: Kirkland announced her hire into its Congressional Investigations and Crisis Management team; LegiStorm... (original: news.bloomberglaw.com)
Chairman Clyburn announces Select Subcommittee staff (committee release) — committee staff release (original: coronavirus.house.gov · stored capture)
Report: "We Are Not the Fraud Police", House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, majority staff, Dec. 1, 2022.